Dutch hardcore's most recognisable mask, with twenty-odd years of relentless gabber kicks and horror-film samples and no interest in mellowing.
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Wasteland Orlando 2027 is Wasteland's first East Coast edition: two nights, Friday February 5 and Saturday February 6, at the Central Florida Fairgrounds, 5pm to midnight. Three stages hosted by Basscon, Mutate and Unreal cover hardstyle, hard techno and hardcore, with Angerfist and Lil Texas at the top.
Below them the 42 acts split roughly three ways. Hardcore and gabber come from DJ Isaac, Mad Dog, Hixxy and Rob Gee; rawstyle and hardstyle from Rooler, Vertile, Dual Damage and Da Tweekaz; hard techno from Trym, 999999999, Fatima Hajji and Vieze Asbak. Kayzo sits across all of it. Entry is 18 and up, and VIP areas are 21 and up.
Expect dance, techno, hardcore and electronic across 42 acts.
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Dutch hardcore's most recognisable mask, with twenty-odd years of relentless gabber kicks and horror-film samples and no interest in mellowing.
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Cowboy-hatted hardcore producer pushing tempos well past 180 with a completely straight face, with Texas kitsch welded to gabber punishment.
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One of Dutch hardcore's founding names, on the circuit since the '90s and still at the top of the bill.
Hardcore-technoHardstyle
Dutch act working the raw end of hardstyle since 2016, built on heavily distorted kicks and aggressive screech leads.
Dance
Welded hardcore punk and metal onto hard dance, with screamed vocals over hardstyle kicks and a live show built around the collision.
HardstyleBassHardcore
Italian hardcore veteran who plays uncompromising gabber built for the largest rooms in Europe and played like it.
Hardcore-technoGabber
Rawstyle at its most aggressive edge, with distorted kicks that have no interest in subtlety or in slowing down.
RawstyleUptempoHardstyle
French hard techno played fast and loud, and one of the sound's most in-demand exports.
Hard-technoTechno
Rawstyle producer with a taste for euphoric melody sitting on top of genuinely brutal kicks.
RawstyleHardstyle
Italian duo whose acid-drenched, punishingly fast techno is performed live on hardware, not laptops, with improvised 303 lines and kick drums that treat 150 BPM as a starting point.
Hard-technoAcid-techno
Berlin producer working the hard, fast end of techno, with rave stabs and trance-adjacent melody welded to relentless kick drums.
Techno
Techno

Techno
Dance
Norwegian hardstyle duo trading in euphoric kick-and-melody anthems and knowingly ridiculous cover versions: festival-scale silliness played dead serious.
Dance
Electronic

Dance
Hardcore-techno
Pop
A fixture of Spain's techno scene for over two decades, she plays hard, driving sets as a genuine veteran of it.
TechnoHard-techno
Electronic

Electronic
Chicago producer of pounding techno with a heavy Euro trance streak, the sound he plays at his monthly On The HHUNT club night.
Techno
UK hardcore lifer: the Bonkers compilations were his, and the piano-over-breakbeat template still is.
Happy-hardcoreUK-hardcore

Trance
Works the seam between moombahton, Jersey club and global bass, making rhythm-first club music that borrows from everywhere.
Global-bassMoombahtonTrap
American producer working the heavier end of festival electronic music, with bass-forward drops built for large rooms rather than headphones.
Dance

Dance
American DJ and producer long associated with building a hardstyle audience in the US, playing heavy kicks alongside euphoric, vocal-led drops.
Dance
Techno
Techno
German group working at the rough, aggressive end of hardstyle, with distorted kicks and dark, punishing builds.
Hardcore
New York hardcore veteran who doubles as DJ and MC, shouting over pounding gabber with the manic energy of the genre's early American days.
Dance

Hard-dance
Dance
Los Angeles producer working the melodic side of big-room trance, building tracks around vocal hooks and long uplifting climbs.
Trance
UptempoHardcore-techno

Hard-dance
Electronic

Dutch producer whose name translates as 'dirty ashtray', playing fast, pounding hard techno with a sense of humour to match the moniker.
Techno
Dance
Vieze Asbak · Pounding hard techno with a sense of humor to match the name.Friday February 5 and Saturday February 6, 2027, from 5pm to midnight both nights.
The Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida.
Angerfist and Lil Texas.
42 acts, counting each B2B pairing once.
Yes. You need to be 18 or older with valid photo ID, and VIP areas are 21 and up.
2-Day GA is $99.99, GA+ $119.99 and VIP $219.99, fees included but not taxes or delivery.
Not yet. Nothing says which night each act plays.
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Event times are 5PM to 12AM on both days.
18+ to enter with valid photo ID. VIP areas are 21+.
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