Heldeep label boss Oliver Heldens returns to his tastemaking imprint with his first release of the year, “Let You Go.” A bold evolution of Heldens’ sound, the track blends Eurodance nostalgia with a fierce, high energy old-school trance edge.
While the production of “Let You Go” hits with full force, Heldens wrote and recorded the vocals himself, bringing a deeper layer, carrying the weight of letting go while pushing toward something more significant. A contrast fuels the intensity, a melancholic raw emotion met with an unstoppable drive, “Let You Go,” sees Heldens step into new territory, delivering a potent mix of feeling and fire.
‘‘Let You Go’ is a song I wrote about saying goodbye, letting a loved one go, and moving on,’ Heldens says. ‘It originated in April last year after playing a show in Tokyo; the love/energy from the Japanese fans was quite overwhelming, in a positive way. I was pretty hyped after the show and jetlagged so I couldn’t sleep. I ended up meditating, but instead of cooling down from that, it got me in kind of an ecstatic yet also melancholic mood. Right after that, in the shower, I started riffing melodies in my head, kind of inspired by one of my all-time favorite trance tracks, Chicane’s ‘Saltwater,’ and in the end, one of the melodies I came up with really stuck with me, so I recorded a voice note in my phone. The next day, I turned it into the first version, the instrumental track of ‘Let You Go,’ titled ‘Tokyo Shower Trance’ at the time. A few months later, after playing a HI-LO show in Chile while traveling to Lima, Peru, I came up with the lyrics for the song, and a few days later, I recorded them in Vancouver in my hotel room, singing them on my phone. I re-recorded the vocals when I got back in Amsterdam again, and after a lot of altering and adding vocoders/synths, it quickly became one of my favorite songs that I’ve done in the last couple of years. Enjoy! :)’
Catch Oliver Heldens on the road as he traverses the globe with hard-hitting shows at destination events such as Ultra Music Festival, EDC Mexico, Don’t Let Daddy Know (Romania and Chile), and Parookaville, among others.
Oliver Heldens – “Let You Go” Is available now on Heldeep.
