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MARLON HOFFSTADT
X PETER XAN’S
‘Hold You Close’
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PETER XAN / MARLON HOFFSTADT
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Producer/DJ Marlon Hoffstadt teams up with Peter Xan, known for pioneering Afrogrunge, on ‘Hold You Close’. The epic track, which was released today via Capitol Records in partnership with Goodlife Management and MC3, flows masterfully from relentless beats and rapid fire vocals by Xan, to ethereal instrumental interludes and culminates in a poetic spoken word passage.
‘Hold You Close’ has been a staple in Marlon Hoffstadt’s set throughout 2025, amping up anticipation for the track’s release. Peter Xan has joined him at numerous shows – including his Los Angeles and New York pop ups and during his recent Warehouse Project takeover in the UK.
Marlon Hoffstadt will return to the U.S. in 2026 for his debut appearances at Ultra Miami and Coachella. He’ll close out 2025 with a pair of shows in Australia. See below for itinerary. Tickets are available HERE.
Last month, he celebrated the release of the extended version of his All Yours EP at ADE 2025 (Amsterdam Dance Event), the world’s largest electronic dance music conference and festival. The day-long, sold-out event featured him performing surprise B2B sets with such guests as VTSS, cloudy, MALUGI & Armin van Buuren and others. Dubbing the week “Amsterdam Daddy Event” with posters all over the city and Marlon Hoffstadt lookalikes handing out USBs with his unreleased EP All Yours and golden tickets to the event on city streets, he claimed ADE as his own.
Declaring that All Yours finds him moving from “cult favorite to global figurehead,” MARVIN Magazine said, “Each track pushed the BPM and the emotional ceiling. ‘Turn It Up’ hits like a laser beam, ‘Pure Love’ softens the tempo with nostalgic euphoria, and ‘Freedom’ feels built for festival sunrise…[his brand of trance isn’t ironic – it’s pure, communal, and deeply alive.” EDMTunes observed, “The long-awaited trance anthem ‘Turn It Up’ is the lead single – a high-octane track with an infectious, commanding keyboard refrain and crisp beats that Hoffstadt wrote and produced with UK DJ/producer Jacob Manson…”
In 2025, Marlon Hoffstadt made his U.S. live debut on the main stage of EDC Las Vegas, in front of 70,000 people. He went on to perform at HARD Summer and Lollapalooza Chicago. Playing clubs in his home city of Berlin from the age of 15, the perpetually smiling, neon-haired DJ has been on fire since 2020, when he reinvented himself as DJ Daddy Trance and started breaking all the rules of the scene that raised him. Marlon Hoffstadt’s productions bring the shameless fun of pop into storming club music, whether in edits (like his breakthrough version of Kid Cudi’s”Day n’ Night”) or in original productions like ‘It’s That Time’, which has amassed over 53 million streams on Spotify alone and was remixed by FISHER.
His up-tempo, 90s trance-inspired version of Empire of the Sun’s iconic 2008 hit ‘Walking On A Dream’ appears on the EP here, released in late September. He also recently unveiled his remix of ‘Ocean’, the new single from Calvin Harris and Jessie Reyez. Named by Billboard as the No. 1 Most Played DJ at ADE 2024, Marlon Hoffstadt is the anti-purist dance floor hero turning club culture inside out, inviting fans to “Feel everything. Complete joy, completely letting go, raise your hands and sing along. Don’t be too cool, just play whatever you want.”
With high praise from key indie tastemakers including NME, DIY, CLASH and DORK, Peter Xan is rapidly building a reputation for fusing alternative sounds in a way that is both vital and defiant. He’s here to tear down cultural norms and rewrite the genre rulebook. Drawing influence from Deftones and Placebo, while embracing the rich sounds of his Nigerian heritage, Xan has created a singular, boundary‑blurring style he calls “Afrogrunge.”
Highlights from his 2024 EP Empty Space include the fan-favorite ‘For The Weekend’, bursting with attitude and indie swagger, and the title track ‘Empty Space’, with walls of guitars and an infectious chorus. Xan’s music is defined by razor-sharp hooks, glistening melodies, and a spirit that nods to a lineage of British guitar music spanning 1970s punk to 2000s indie. His 2023 EP GOD SAVE THE KING, produced with Dan Carey and Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten, was the culmination of a period of profound artistic evolution.
Over the past few years, Peter has played packed shows at All Points East, The Great Escape and Somerset House, along with sold-out headline shows in Paris, London, Manchester, and Brighton, and has supported one of his biggest influences, The Libertines. With each performance, he continues to cement his reputation as a fearless innovator, challenging expectations and redefining modern alt-rock.
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MARLON HOFFSTADT –
Tour Dates
2025
5th Dec – Sydney, AU – Munro Warehouse
7th Dec – Melbourne, AU – Sidney Myer Music Bowl
2026
27-29th March – Miami, FL – Ultra Miami
10th April – Indio, CA – Coachella
17th April – Indio, CA – Coachella
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