Jumpstyle
Jumpstyle is an electronic dance style and music genre popular in Western Europe, originally in Belgium.
Jumpstyle
Late 1990s—2000s in Belgium and Netherlands
Jumpstyling is often referred to as "Jumpen": a combination of the English word 'Jump' and the Dutch and German suffix '-en' (meaning "to jump", or "jumping").[1]
It originated in Belgium[2] but gathered bigger popularity in their neighbouring country the Netherlands in the 2000s.
Tournaments and leagues[edit]
There are various jumpstyle leagues across the world; mostly in the form of online video submissions and internet competitions. However, in Belgium there have been staged tournaments such as the European Jump Masters.
Music[edit]
Jumpstyle music is an offspring of tech-trance, hardstyle, gabber and mákina. Its tempo is usually between 140 and 150 BPM. However, it cannot be seen as merely a slowed down version of gabber. It is characterised by a 909 kick drum used in a four on the floor beat. It also has influences from hard house and electro house. Starting around 2002–03, jumpstyle began to gain influence from hardstyle sound, such as pitched basslines set at a melody, more complex, multiband distortion, and synthesizers utilising square waveforms.[4]