Code Black is a global hardstyle icon who this year had the ultimate privilege for such a person: he recorded the official Defqon. 1 anthem for the Australian edition of the monstrous EDM festival. The resulting track, ‘Release the Beast’ is the sort of brain-frying, soul-crushing and dizzyingly electronic track that sends your every nerve into overdrive. He followed that up with an official anthem for XXLerator, this time opting for something less aggressive and more akin to a jagged happy hardcore record on crystal meth.
