Natte Visstick

Natte Visstick (“wet fish stick”) is the id of the Dutch hard dance internet: deliberately rude, relentlessly silly and much better produced than it has any right to be. Emerging around 2021 as part of the Pestcore Collectief, he built a catalogue of uptempo and hard techno laced with adolescent jokes, and the streams followed by the millions.

Pestcore

The project belongs to a distinctly Dutch wave (alongside collaborators like Vieze Asbak, Gladde Paling and even Yellow Claw) that treats bad taste as an art form: crude titles, meme samples and hooks engineered for maximum grin. “POLSKA JUMPSTYLE” and its VIP, his biggest tracks on HDRR’s tracking, weld jumpstyle bounce to uptempo kicks and dare you not to laugh.

The joke that hits

Strip the humour away and the engineering is real: modern kick design and arrangements tight enough for the same festival systems that carry Paul Elstak’s or Partyraiser’s sets. Like the gabber pioneers’ most provocative records, the point is that it slaps and offends your parents.

On the radar

HDRR tracks the Natte Visstick catalogue as it grows: every new release lands on the Uptempo Release Radar or Hard Techno Release Radar the day it hits Spotify. The full tracked catalogue is listed above.