Some tracks are built for the drop. Others are built for the hour when the lights are still low and nobody is in a hurry. Hold On To You, the first collaboration between Frankfurt producer and DJ Daniel Simon and vocalist Yasmin Jane, sits firmly in that second camp. Filed as Melodic House and described as hypnotic progressive house, it is the kind of record that moves at its own pace and rewards a full listen rather than a thirty-second skip.
Daniel Simon works out of Frankfurt am Main and specialises in Progressive House, Melodic Techno and Trance. He builds in the studio with hardware synthesizers and Ableton, aiming for emotional melodies with enough drive for prime-time sets and enough space for sunset moments. That mix of feeling and function is the through-line of his catalogue. Listeners who already live in the worlds of Ilan Bluestone, Andrew Bayer, Ben Böhmer and Lane 8 will recognise the territory: long-arc melody, patient arrangement, and a pulse that stays locked without shouting.
He has also been circling a bigger room lately. His remix of What Is Left Of Me, featuring vocals by Katty Heath, landed on Dennis Sheperd’s A Tribute To Life imprint, part of the Black Hole Recordings family. Hold On To You continues that relationship. The single arrived in May 2026 on A Tribute To Life, with a radio cut around three minutes fifteen and an extended mix just over four and a half minutes. Beatport lists it at 124 BPM, which is classic mid-tempo house territory: danceable without turning into a peak-time sprint.
What you get, based on the official framing and the genre itself, is unhurried progressive house. Melodic House in 2026 still lives in that overlap between club utility and headphone emotion. Playlists keep filling with warm pads, rolling bass and vocal hooks that feel more like a conversation than a festival chant. Hold On To You was billed as a sunrise record: consistent, hypnotic, and not interested in rushing the payoff. That is a smart place to stand when so much electronic music is competing to be louder in the first eight bars.
Yasmin Jane’s presence matters here even if you do not get a full lyric sheet in the submission. Vocal-led progressive and melodic house lives or dies on whether the voice sits inside the groove instead of sitting on top of it. A first collaboration is always a bit of a tightrope. Too much producer muscle and the singer becomes decoration. Too much pop polish and the hypnotic house identity slips. The pitch for this one is that they found a middle lane: a hypnotic progressive house record first, with Jane as a co-writer in the credits rather than a last-minute feature.
If you only know Daniel Simon from Rescue Me or the What Is Left Of Me remix, this single is a useful snapshot of where he is aiming. Hardware-led writing, Ableton assembly, and a label home that already speaks to trance and progressive listeners who still want melody at the centre. He has said he is open to collaborations, remix work and playlist features, which is the practical side of staying visible in a scene where one well-placed sunrise record can travel further than a dozen anonymous loops.
Melodic House does not need another generic breakdown-and-drop template. It needs records that hold a mood long enough for people to actually stay with them. Hold On To You is positioned as that kind of track. Put it on when the night is thinning out, or when the morning is not quite ready to start, and let it do the unhurried thing it was written for.
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