Style recipe for Suno v5

Hardwave

aggressiveeuphoricfuturistic140–160 BPM

Hardwave from the 2010s: distorted supersaw, hard kick, trap hats, aggressive and euphoric in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Hardwave grew out of wave, a bass music and visual art scene that formed in the early 2010s among DIY producers on SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Mixcloud, Reddit and Tumblr, often teenagers with no ties to club culture. Wave set the template: atmospheric melodies, filtered Reese-style bass, trap drums with fast hi-hats, and chopped vocal samples pitched up and down under reverb and delay, usually between 120 and 140 BPM. By 2013 UK producer Klimeks was tagging his SoundCloud tracks as wave, later founding the label Wavemob, while Plastician championed the music on his Rinse FM shows and spread the name with The Wave Pool MMXV mix in December 2015. Kareful released what was reported as the first full-length wave album, Deluge, in early 2016. Then in 2017 the Perth producers Skeler and Ytho began adding elements of trance and hardstyle to win over bigger festival and club crowds, coined the name hardwave and pulled the scene toward it. By then wave was moving from screens to real rooms, with nights in London's Dalston and, in 2022, Seattle's three-day Pantheon festival.

The recipe

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Tag breakdown

Every descriptor in this style, listed one at a time.

#Tag
1Hardwave
22010s
3aggressive
4euphoric
5futuristic
6distorted supersaw
7hard kick
8trap hats
9screech leads
10sub bass
11instrumental
12no vocals
13heavy distortion
14wide reverb
15polished professional master
16wide dimensional stereo
17150 BPM
18for clubs

18 tags and 247 characters go into this recipe, prompted in English and shaped by the 2010s.

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