Jumpstyle / Chicago Hard House | |
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Stylistic origins | Chicago House, Tech House, Detroit House ,Hardcore techno |
Cultural origins | 1990, Belgium |
Typical instruments | Roland TR-909 – Roland TR-808 – Synthesizer – Sequencer – Keyboard – Sampler |
Subgenres | |
Booty House, Micro House (complete list) | |
Fusion genres | |
none | |
Other topics | |
Electronic musical instrument – Computer music |
The term Jump is used both for a musical genre (a subgenre of Techno, recognized by its hard & deep bass) and for a type of dance usually performed to this style of music. In the early days of Jumpstyle, many categorized it as a slower variant of Hardcore Techno, but it has since solidified its position as a genre of its own.
Jump comes from the oldschool, jungle hardcore of the early nineties. Records were made you could name 'jump' (like Speedy J - Pullover). In the end of the nineties jump was becoming famous because of the top 10-hit "Ready to rumble" from Da boy Tommy and Da Rick. In the end of 2004 jump grew in the Netherlands. Because of the popularity of hardstyle in the Netherlands, jump was called jumpstyle there. In the beginning jump was only known in Belgium and the Netherlands later it spread to France and Germany.
The speed of jump has increased to 140-145 bpm.
Though Jumpstyle has yet to make any significant impact in North America, Captain Ahab, a Los Angeles based dance band, pledged in 2007 to bring the genre across the continent on their North American Jumpstyle Tour.[citation needed] In addition, a man in a gold wrestling mask on the television show So You Think You Can Dance called The Gold Inferno introduced jumpstyle to a wider American audience.[citation needed] Recently the Uk's first jumpstyle crew was founded, the notorious[citation needed] JSC.
Dance
Jump also comes with a certain way of dancing, and there are certain 'styles' in this dance.
- Oldskool/Jump: Was based on the first move that was used in the dance called 'skieën', later a certain standard routine came that was a combination of kicking forwards and backwards both legs on the basslines, even later certain moves came such as a spin.
- Frenchtek/Hardjump: This is based on the harder variant of normal jump called Frenchtek, it is based on jumping in a square like routine. Later on the moves used in Oldskool Jump were merged in the Frenchtek style and people rather call it Hardjump now.
- Freestyle: With this style, the 'jumper' does whatever he feels like, there are no certain restrictions of jumping and it usually involves a mix of Oldskool Jump & Hardjump.
- Duojump: Is jumping with two(or more) people at the same time, usually the people performing the Duojump have practiced it before performing it, since they both do exactly the same routine and try to synchronize it as much as possible. Duojumps are mostly done JFH-style. It looks the same as Starstyle but is a bit more relaxed and involves moving the upper body a lot more.