Hardwell

Robbert van de Corput, born in Breda in 1988, learned classical piano before DJing and got his first attention in 2009 for a bootleg of “Show Me Love”. He founded Revealed Recordings in 2010, still run from Breda, and was voted the world’s number one DJ by DJ Mag in 2013 and 2014.

His first album, United We Are, came in 2015, at the top of the big-room years he had helped define.

In September 2018 he announced an indefinite hiatus from touring to get his life back. He returned unannounced in March 2022, closing Ultra Miami as the rumoured special guest and playing thirteen unreleased tracks in a harder big-room techno style nobody had heard from him before.

Those became Rebels Never Die, released on Revealed that September — three years of work made, by his own account, on the principle of not doing what was expected. Expect the newer, faster material rather than the 2014 anthems.

Written from Wikipedia and DJ Mag.