What in the world is Jumpstyle??
Jump was the original music genre that created the now known Jumpstyle which is both a Dance subgenre with hard & deep bass lines as well as the dance style you usually dance to the Jumpstyle music.

Its origin comes from Hardcore but it is a bit slower and from Oldschool. This was back in the early 1990’ies and since then the genre has changed significantly. When the style started getting popular in The Netherlands in early 2003 it quickly got associated with the harder genre Hardstyle and from that the new name Jumpstyle was created.

In 2007 this genre spread from The Netherlands & Belgium to France, Germany, Spain, England and now also the Nordic Region which includes Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania & Latvia.

Even though some people claim Jump to be dead the past year has proven that Jumpstyle is growing stronger by the minute and conquering new territories via outlets such as YouTube.com where people upload their own Jumpstyle dance videos frequently. The current Jumpstyle tracks have a BPM around 140-145.

Jumpstyle still hasn’t really made an impact in North America but Captain Ahab a North American Dance band pledged in 2007 to bring the genre to the US via their North American Jumpstyle Tour. This also made an impact on the very popular TV show So You Think You Can Dance where the Gold Inferno danced the Jumpstyle to a large American audience. This program can also be watched in the Nordic region.