Everyone talks about the legends. Nobody warns you about the kids. Raw hardstyle’s younger crew has spent the last couple of years making the screech kick nastier than it has any right to be, and they’re all over the Defqon.1 undercard this year. Three of them, loud.
1. Rooler - BOSS
Rooler builds drops like he’s actively trying to get the stage shut down. BOSS is two minutes of menace and one kick that sounds like a building coming down on schedule. Perfect.
2. Vasto - The New Sound
Vasto’s whole thing is making the raw kick groove instead of just punch, and The New Sound is the cleanest example of it. Funky and brutal at once, which shouldn’t be possible but here we are.
3. Killshot - One Shot
Killshot has quietly been one of the most reliable raw producers going, and One Shot is him deciding to stop being quiet about it. The kind of track that turns a 3pm tent into a problem for security.
Show up early. These are the sets people lie about having caught.