1992's 'Poing' by Rotterdam Termination Source set the course. Along with it's B-side 'Feyenoord Reactivate' the track was an anthem world-wide selling over 70,000 copies, and superfast techno became a way for Rotterdam to distinguish itself. In her book This Is Our House, Dutch club culture academic Hillegonda Rietveld offers some insight into the rabid escalation that created gabber. She believes the relatively affluent kids in Rotterdam didn't need uplifting music or messages of hope. Like Scandinavian death metallers they just wanted aggression and oblivion. But it was territorial, it had to be their oblivion. A kind of sonic football hooliganism. 'In the process of trying to outdo each other in behing harder, faster and more outrageous the Dutch have defined their own aesthetic.' By taking the music to extremes, she argues, gabber became 'as Dutch as tulips'