Country of origin
Netherlands music genres
Explore music genre guides with documented origins in Netherlands.
4 genre guides
1990Hard Dance
A broad, scene-based label for the harder edge of EDM, with its strongest documented roots in European rave culture and its clearest modern use as an umbrella over hardstyle, hard trance, hard house, and hardcore.
1990Speedcore
A fast, abrasive corner of hardcore techno that crystallized in the 1990s and still lives mostly through underground labels, artist pages, and scene-specific releases.
1997Hardstyle
A concise, evidence-constrained hardstyle entry centered on the Dutch-origin festival scene, with artist examples linked to official platform pages.
Levenslied
A distinctly Dutch song tradition: direct, sentimental, and built for shared recognition rather than polish. Its history runs from early recorded popular song into the Amsterdam-centered croon of Johnny Jordaan, Willy Alberti, and their successors.