"High on Life" is a song by Dutch DJ
Martin Garrix
Martijn Gerard Garritsen (; born 14 May 1996), known professionally as Martin Garrix and also as Ytram and GRX, is a Dutch disc jockey and music producer who was ranked number one on ''DJ Mag''s Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years—201 ...
. A
progressive house ballad featuring Swedish songwriter and vocalist Kristoffer "Bonn" Fogelmark,
it was released via his
Stmpd Rcrds label, which is exclusively-licensed to a
Sony Music
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sublabel, Epic Amsterdam.
The song's production credits consist of frequent Garrix collaborators
Matisse & Sadko
Matisse & Sadko is a Russian DJ and production duo from Sosnovy Bor, 80 kilometres from city of St. Petersburg, consisting of brothers Aleksandr and Yury Parkhomenko. They are best known for their collaborations with Dutch DJ Martin Garrix in trac ...
, Albin Nedler and established producer
Giorgio Tuinfort, who has produced multiple songs with Garrix.
Background
Garrix's label had announced via Twitter the song would be immediately available for release "the moment (Garrix) plays it at #Tomorrowland" during his headlining closing performance. It was premiered at the
Tomorrowland 2018 music festival in Belgium as the closing song on 29 July 2018.
It was also released at midnight on the same day.
"High on Life" is one of the two songs announced by Garrix for release since his last single "
Ocean
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" with
Khalid
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Justin Mylo that would be released in September.
Production
The song has been musically compared to Garrix's previous singles such as "Dragon", "Lions in the Wild" and "Forever", as an "energetic and emotion-filled progressive house track".
The song is noted as a "return to his roots" in reference to Garrix's regular crossover musical style of
pop music
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to his typical
big room house and
progressive house.
Described as an uplifting summer song that is a "synth-heavy festival house tune", the song's production has been compared to the style of late Swedish DJ
Avicii
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, who had worked with Garrix for the song "
Waiting for Love".
Music video
The music video for the song has also been released, featuring clips from Garrix's Tomorrowland performance which shows "the most standard and spectacular face of Tomorrowland". It was released to YouTube and streaming platforms five minutes after the performance at Tomorrowland ended.
Personnel
Credits adapted from
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* Martijn Garritsen – production, composing, songwriting, performer
* Matisse & Sadko – production
* Kristoffer Fogelmark – composing, songwriting, vocals
* Albin Nedler – composing, songwriting, backing vocals
* Giorgio Tuinfort – composing, songwriting
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
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2018 songs
Martin Garrix songs
Progressive house songs
Stmpd Rcrds singles
2018 singles
Songs written by Martin Garrix
Songs written by Giorgio Tuinfort
Songs written by Kristoffer Fogelmark
Songs written by Albin Nedler