Hardstyle

Hardstyle is built around one thing : the kick. Heavy, distorted, tuned into a melody of its own, wrapped in euphoric or raw leads and the genre's signature reverse bass. It sits apart from techno's 4/4 grid, closer to the festival main stage than the dark club. On calrave it leans Spanish on the collective side, with Madrid's Nexus flying the flag, and it surfaces across the big summer festivals, Medusa Sunbeach on the Valencian coast among them. In France it turns up on open-air and rave bills through the season.

Euphoric hardstyle, raw, and the harder rawstyle edge all live here. If you want kicks that hit like a wall and drops built for ten thousand people, this is the page. Below you'll find every upcoming hardstyle date we track in France and Spain : festivals, open airs and club nights, hand-checked and updated as new lineups land.