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What's jumpstyle
According to wikipedia jumpstyle is
is a music and dance genre that orginated in the house scene in Chicago during the early 90's.
The structure of the genre is defined by placing a Kick Drum, Claps and/or Snare Drums, and a Distorted 909 Bass Drum on the downbeats. You'll often find a Open Hi-Hat loop or downbeat Hi-hats as well. Fairly new Hard House tracks also includes Hoovers, which you will also find in Hardcore genres like NU Style Gabber, and the Trance genre Hardstyle. Because of the genre borrowing features like this (mainly inspired by Hardstyle), the name has changed from Chicago Hard House to Jumpstyle. This may raise confusion about the genre's origins, the House scene.
Although essentially, Jumpstyle has thus become a hybrid genre of Hardcore, Trance and House.
The dance
Originally, the gabber dance style called "hakken" was used to dance to jumpstyle music, although it is slower than hardcore; but later a new dance evolved called "Skiën" (to ski). Skiën means kicking one's feet forward and backward on the bass line, while the torso goes the opposite way (right foot forward, torso back), once in a while lifting one foot significantly higher than usual to indicate a break in the beat. This dance, usually called "jumpen" nowadays (derived from English, to jump), originated in Belgium in 1997 but has seen a real popularity boost in recent years, gaining widespread fame in Belgium and Northern France around 2002 and more recently in the Netherlands. In other countries such as Germany and Austria it has also garnered some interest, albeit among a limited public. The Belgian DJs Da Boy Tommy and Da Rick are often credited with its invention.
It is also called porn but is different from the skank associated with ska and reggae music.
Often another variation of this dance called "Duo-Jump" is performed by two people who choreograph their movements and perform them in unison along side one another. This variation of the jumpstyle dance also originated in Belgium. Some see similarities in the dance style with inline dancing.
Jumpers can go to special jump discotheques, often called "Jumpotheques"; for example "The Oh!" in Gavere. Also special events, like the yearly Bassleader-event in Flanders Expo Ghent, are mostly kept in Belgium.