Pegassi?
Helena Lauwaert
I'd start with Helena Lauwaert, who shares more bills with Pegassi than anyone and matches him beat for beat. The Belgian is proudly genre-fluid, cutting between hard house, speed house and hardgroove inside one set, all of it fast and bouncing. To me she's the clearest sign of where this whole hard-dance wave is heading.
Tomorrowland 2026Kyle Starkey
Kyle Starkey works the same bouncy register as Pegassi but tilts it toward euphoria, threading rare 90s hard house and trance records through modern productions until a set feels like a rave you half-remember. He holds down a residency at Amnesia in Ibiza, and to me few people alive dig up trance this good.
Awakenings Podcast 2026Bella Claxton
Bella Claxton carries Sydney's hard-house muscle into the Amsterdam rooms Pegassi rules, Thuishaven and Intercell, and I love how she splits Australian force and European sheen. Her sets hit at a flat sprint and keep climbing, built for the hour a room is already drenched and only wants harder. She crossed from Sydney to the front of Europe's hard-groove scene in a blink.
Intercell x Glitch 2025Diffrent
Diffrent widens the lens without losing the bounce. Where Pegassi comes at you four-to-the-floor, Diffrent swings it, pulling UK garage, bassline and speed garage into the same high-energy rush. It's the sound of a British basement that never sat down, and the cleanest bridge on this list from hard dance into the UK end of things.
Rinse FM 2026Mall Grab
I'd finish with Mall Grab, the biggest name here and the one who has travelled furthest. He made his name as the king of lo-fi house, then kept getting harder and faster until his sets landed right next to Pegassi's, all rave stabs and breakneck energy. Proof the whole scene has been drifting toward this sound for years.
Rinse FM 2025