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Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre mixing influences from hardtechno hard house hard trance and hardcore. Hardstyle typically consists of a deep hard-sounding kick drum intense faded or reversed basslines accompanying the beat a synth playing a melody and detuned and distorted sounds. It bears some similarities to hard trance. Many hardcore artists produce hardstyle tracks as well and many newer Hardstyle tracks are written in compound time.