Shorthand for his birth name rather than a fanatic ode to the iconic Harrison Ford character, Sander Van Dijck is a Dutch DJ who has been releasing music under the San Holo pseudonym since his debut EP, Cosmos, in 2014. 2017 saw him receive a nomination for New Artist of the Year at the Electronic Music Awards and has a blossoming career, with a lot of his songs featuring on trap and future bass playlists and DJ’s USBs across the world.

The song starts off quite galactic, fitting of the artist’s name, and immediately evokes the Dutch EDM sound that Holo would have grown up with. It is a showstopper of a dance track and feels tailor-made for the festival circuit. The heavy bass that pulls the rare vocal portions together is laden with synths and is the sensation is, to me, an aural laser show. These give way to primitive drum sounds under the female vocalist, giving the song layer after layer and providing a complex, heavyweight record. Influences can be heard all over the place, the song making the listener think of everything from Porter Robinson to African tribal drum ceremonies!

The song was released in 2015 as a single on Spinnin’ Records and is perfect for release as such. It doesn’t feel like a song that would benefit from being collated into an album where it would have to compete with other tracks. As a single, it can flourish and the production, in particular, can have its moment. You can hardly expect any less from a former ghost producer for some of the world’s greats in the dance music game!

 

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