Trap/ hardstyle crossovers?

[Lemmiwinks]

This new fad seems to be hitting the dancefloors lately: having music that is a bit of everything in one track, so it has a dance part, a rap/ trap part and a hard part, like WTF?? And what is it called?

 

Anyway, here are some examples:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8jkOOVCBMs

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjWQ420Mn6U

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyHgUCqZWd8

 

what do you guys think? I find it really odd that they put basically opposite styles in the same track... which is like the contrary of the "tradition" in electronic music of ever-separating sub-sub-sub genres. I'm kindof lost here lol

[Veracohr]

It doesn't sound that 'separate' to me, I can hear the stylistic flow. Maybe you can consider it an evolution of the 'mashup' phenomenon, into the realm of original creation.

 

Not my cup of tea, but it makes sense to me musically.

[Lemmiwinks]

It doesn't sound that 'separate' to me, I can hear the stylistic flow. Maybe you can consider it an evolution of the 'mashup' phenomenon, into the realm of original creation.

 

Not my cup of tea, but it makes sense to me musically.

 

umm, ok if you see it as a mashup then yes, however AFAIK people into rap usually hate high BPM music and people into high BPM music hate rap Although I have to admit it's growing on me, at least you get the feeling that ANYTHING could happen in a track as opposed to "incoming break at 2:00 followed by a climax at 3:00" etc.

 

anyway, apparently this is the song that started it all: basically a rap track about going to the Thunderdome (how wierd is that? lol)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkRehr3iGI

[Padmapani]

strange. but i wouldn't see it as breaking with the traditions of splitting subgenres, but rather the continuation of the ongoing trend that edm should not be danceable let alone trance inducing. i imagine you can get lost in the booming bass of trap/miami bass (really what else is there to like about it? ) and i'm pretty sure that you can trance out to hardstyle. so you put these two together with the intention of stopping the dancing once people start to get into it and interrupting the people with hard kicks once they start to zone out to the trap.

kinda like what captain hook does to progressive/dubstep.