Available now on HILOMATIK
HI-LO and Maddix, two of The Netherlands’ biggest techno acts, have joined forces for an absolute banger of a new single – ‘My Fantasy.’
The perfect blend of contemporary and classic sounds, ‘My Fantasy’’ is the definition of peak time… it’s absolutely massive! The track has everything you could want to put you over the edge at the club…pulse-pounding beats and rhythms, acid-drenched 303s, operatic choirs, and a primary vocal sample that ties it together.
HI-LO and Maddix successfully road-tested ‘My Fantasy’ at the most significant festivals, such as Ultra Miami, Ultra Europe, EDC Las Vegas, Airbeat One Festival, Parookaville, and Tomorrowland, with early support coming from DJs including Armin van Buuren and Eli Brown.
Be sure to catch HI-LO’s upcoming summer festival appearances, which include stops at One Universe Festival, Mysteryland, and CRSSD.
‘MY FANTASY’ is available now via HILOMATIK.
About HI-LO
In just a few short years, Oliver Heldens successfully parlayed his career in mainstream dance music into a much-lauded alter-ego in the techno world as HI-LO, gaining widespread acceptance from the underground scene in the process. Making the most of an era when genre boundaries are less important or distinct than ever and younger generations cast aside the snobbery of old, the name HI-LO is now synonymous with cutting-edge, quality, hard-hitting, innovative techno. By 2020, his tracks ‘Zeus’ and ‘Kronos’ landed in the Top 10 most-played techno tracks of the year on 1001tracklists.com, making him the #1 most-supported producer platform-wide that year across all genres. His DJ sets as HI-LO has serenaded audiences at huge events like Ultra’s revered Resistance, Manchester’s Warehouse Project, Austin’s Seismic Dance Event, San Diego’s Proper NYE, plus prominent clubs in the techno scene like De Marktkantine in Amsterdam, Watergate in Berlin, E1 in London, Mondo in Madrid and Nitsa in Barcelona, plus numerous stand out performances on Drumcode and Filth on Acid label showcases across the globe.
Combining a big room sensibility with a dark, underground, raw edge, HI-LO has become a trusted tastemaker, with his tracks receiving massive support from luminaries of the scene, including Adam Beyer (who signed his ‘Hypnos,’ ‘Wanna Go Bang’ EPs and ‘CRESCENDO’ to his Drumcode label and invited him to remix his DJ Rush collab ‘Restore My Soul’), Reinier Zonneveld (with whom HI-LO released seven wildly creative collabs), Carl Cox, Solomun, Tale of Us, Anyma, Charlotte de Witte, Enrico Sangiuliano, Pan-Pot, Dubfire, Joseph Capriati, ANNA, AMELIE LENS, Joris Voorn, Robert Hood, Richie Hawtin, and countless other a-list acts. HI-LO was crowned the #1 best-selling and best-streaming techno artist over the last six months, according to Beatport. The next chapter in the HI-LO story was the January 2023 launch of HILOMATIK, a new label showcasing his productions alongside music from hot new talents and techno heroes that will further expand his musical manifesto. The imprint kicked off with the mighty ‘PURA VIDA’ from the man himself and has carried significant momentum into 2024 with recent releases including ‘GENESIS EP’ (with Space 92), ‘PARADISE’ (with Danny Avila), ‘LIFT ME UP” (with Green Velvet), ‘Now Love Will Begin’ (with Armin van Buuren), ‘GIMME THE WORD’ (with Alan Fitzpatrick), ‘PEGASUS’ (with Space 92), ‘PYRAMID RAVE EP’ with Eli Brown, and ‘BADDADAN BAD’
HI-LO On Tour:
Aug 24 – One Universe Festival – Gwacheon-si, South Korea
Sep 1 – Mysteryland: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep 28 – CRSSD: San Diego, CA
Oct 19 – Dockyard Festival: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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About Maddix
Dutch DJ/producer Maddix is known for his genre-breaking techno-rave sound, infused with big room and trance influences. Starting his new core sound in 2018, with the release of his legendary track ‘Ecstasy’ in 2019, he continuously refreshed the EDM landscape with hard-hitting techno kicks and an acid revival, organically evolving his sound even more towards techno and trance. Most importantly, Maddix brought the rave back to the club and festival crowds and received support from techno artists such as Deborah de Luca, Amelie Lens, Ki/Ki, Umek, Eli Brown, John Summit, Hi-Lo, Lilly Palmer, and many others.
After Maddix’s hit singles ‘Heute Nacht’ and ‘My Gasoline,’ collaborations with Hardwell, Umek, KSHMR, and Timmy Trumpet, and remixes for Tiësto and Armin van Buuren, his audience has grown into a truly global collective. This growth has led to appearances at major festivals such as Ultra Music Festival, EDC, Dreamstate, Parookaville, World Club Dome, Mysteryland, and headlining club shows worldwide. In partnership with Revealed Recordings, Maddix’s brand-new record label Extatic (XTTC) was launched in 2023. Alongside achieving 500 million+ streams, reaching 5 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and multiple #1 spots on Beatport and Spotify’s Editorial playlist, including DJ Mag’s top100 DJ list entry in 2023, we can say Maddix has created a movement that is changing the electronic dance music scene.
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