Ran-D and Adaro have a side project where they put on bandanas and make the meanest, dumbest, most fun hardstyle on the calendar. It’s called Gunz For Hire, and Q-dance just handed them the slot that closes Defqon.1 2026. Whoever signed off on that decision deserves a raise. Three reasons it’s going to be chaos.
1. Gunz For Hire - Bolivia
The one that put the project on the map. Bolivia is gangster-movie samples over a kick that absolutely means it, and somehow it never got old. Pure villain energy.
2. Gunz For Hire - Hard Knock Life
They flipped the Annie line into a hardstyle stomp and dared you to be mad about it. I’m not. Hard Knock Life is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds and it goes off every time without fail.
3. Gunz For Hire - Gangsters Don’t Dance
The thesis statement. Gangsters Don’t Dance is two grown men deciding that subtlety is for cowards. Close a festival with this and people will still be arguing about it on the drive home.
See you in the chaos.