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Oliver Heldens

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Oliver Heldens

Every week Oliver Heldens hosts Heldeep Radio, which has been running since 2015. This show features a mix of the latest house music tracks and highlights from his label, Heldeep Records. The program reaches an audience of about 118 million listeners weekly. The show includes his own productions as well as tracks from emerging artists, making it a platform for both well-known and up-and-coming talent in the electronic music scene. Heldens […]



Olivier “Oliver” J. L. Heldens born 1 February 1995, is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer from Rotterdam. He is regarded as a pioneer of the future house genre, propelling it to international attention and scoring numerous chart successes, including “Gecko (Overdrive)”, “Last All Night (Koala)”, “The Right Song”, “Fire in My Soul”, and “Turn Me On”. He also produces techno songs under the alias HI-LO, which comes from “Oli H” in reversed form, runs the label Heldeep Records and the label HILOMATIK.
In February 2021, he is the 460th-most-streamed artist on Spotify, with over a billion cumulative streams.

Heldens began his professional music career when he signed to Spinnin’ Records in 2013. His first releases on the label included the songs “Stinger” and “Thumper”, which features DJ Jacob van Hage. Heldens’ 2013 song “Gecko” caught the attention of fellow Dutch DJ Tiësto, who signed the song to his label, Musical Freedom, and later released a vocal version through Warner Music Group’s FFRR with British singer Becky Hill on 23 June 2014 as “Gecko (Overdrive)”. The song peaked at number 1 on the UK Top 40 chart in June 2014, was named “Essential New Tune” by BBC’s Pete Tong on 31 January 2014, and DJs including David Guetta, Martin Garrix, and Zedd began supporting it.

In January 2014, Heldens launched his Heldeep Mixtape on his official SoundCloud page, creating extended mixes which incorporate various genres of electronic music including different types of deep house and tech-house. The first mixtape included his remix of fellow Spinnin’ Records signee Martin Garrix’s “Animals”. In March 2014, Heldens also released a remix of Robin Thicke’s “Feel Good”.

Heldens entered the DJ Mag Top 100 of 2014, making his debut at number 34. In December 2014, he performed an Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1, and British radio DJ Pete Tong named him “one of the breakthrough producers of the year”.[8] Heldens released “Koala” on Spinnin’ in August 2014, and on 6 October 2014 he released “This” with Sander van Doorn. “Koala” became the second-most-searched dance recording from the 2014 Amsterdam Dance Event on music-recognition app Shazam.[9] He achieved 12th place in the DJ Mag Top 100 2015, making him the highest-ranked house DJ on the list. In a Billboard interview at Tomorrowland, Heldens described his style as deep house while also acknowledging the mainstream influences in his music.

Fast forwarding to 2024, Hot Dance Radio signed up Oliver Heldens to the ever growing line-up for Hot Dance Radio Ibiza, where he plays…

 

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