Martin Garrix is continuing to push beyond the familiar boundaries of his own music. The Dutch electronic artist has teased “This Dream Of You,” a new single featuring his own vocals, set for release on Friday, October 2.
The track marks another step into singing for Martin Garrix following “Catharina,” which arrived in March and introduced listeners to his voice in a lead role. Both tracks are expected to form part of his forthcoming second studio album, continuing a period in which Martin Garrix appears increasingly interested in placing songwriting and personal performance alongside the large scale electronic production that defined his rise.
“Singing is very far out of my comfort zone, but I’m excited to try new things and grow/learn!!” Martin Garrix wrote while sharing previews of the new track. “Premiered it at Tomorrowland as my intro and so happy to finally share it with you guys. Big hug.”
From Tomorrowland Intro to Official Release
“This Dream Of You” has already existed in another form before its official release.
Martin Garrix used an early version to open his Tomorrowland 2026 performance, introducing the track on one of electronic music’s largest stages before revealing the more personal element behind it.
In one of two preview clips shared by Martin Garrix, footage shows the Tomorrowland introduction. The second moves into considerably more intimate territory, with Martin Garrix singing part of “This Dream Of You” while accompanying himself on guitar.
The contrast is striking. One version belongs to the enormous visual and sonic architecture of a festival mainstage. The other strips that machinery away, leaving a voice, a guitar and the song underneath.
For an artist whose career has been closely associated with precision engineered festival records, that change in perspective offers a different way into his creative process.ations form part of a wider campaign challenging the British government’s decision to proscribe the organisation.
Finding His Own Voice
Martin Garrix made his first move into solo vocals earlier this year with “Catharina.” “This Dream Of You” suggests that the experiment was not intended as a one off curiosity.
Singing adds another dimension to the relationship between producer and song. Electronic producers have traditionally moved between many roles, from composition and sound design to arrangement and performance, while vocalists frequently provide the human voice at the centre of the finished record.
By singing his own material, Martin Garrix is beginning to collapse that separation.
His comments also make clear that this remains unfamiliar territory. Rather than presenting the transition as an effortless reinvention, Martin Garrix has openly described singing as something outside his comfort zone.
That vulnerability gives the project an interesting tension. Martin Garrix has spent years performing before enormous crowds, yet singing his own lyrics introduces a different kind of exposure.
A Second Album Begins to Take Shape
“This Dream Of You” is also another clue about the direction of Martin Garrix’s upcoming second album.
The project will follow ** Sentio **, released in 2022, and arrives after several years in which Martin Garrix has continued moving between progressive house, festival focused electronic music and vocal driven crossover records.
The new material appears to widen that framework further.
His 2026 Tomorrowland performance also became a testing ground for other major projects. Martin Garrix debuted “Fireflies,” a collaboration with U2, during the set. He also previewed “Bizarre,” his collaboration with Madonna, which was later presented live in Brooklyn.
Together with “Catharina” and “This Dream Of You,” those records suggest an album era built around collaboration but also a more direct presence from Martin Garrix himself.
From “Animals” to Global Stages
The decision to explore vocals arrives more than a decade after Martin Garrix first became one of electronic music’s most recognisable young producers.
Born Martijn Garritsen in the Netherlands, Martin Garrix achieved his international breakthrough in 2013 with “Animals.” Its sparse melodic structure and enormous drop became one of the defining festival sounds of that period, propelling Martin Garrix from emerging producer to global touring artist while he was still a teenager.
What followed was a career that gradually expanded beyond that initial sound.
Records including “In the Name of Love” with Bebe Rexha, “Scared to Be Lonely” with Dua Lipa and “High on Life” with Bonn demonstrated Martin Garrix’s ability to move between festival scale production and more song oriented electronic music.
Through his STMPD RCRDS label, Martin Garrix also developed a platform for releasing his own material while supporting producers across different areas of contemporary electronic music.
“This Dream Of You” introduces another evolution. The producer who once built records around other voices is increasingly allowing his own to occupy the foreground.
An Ibiza Chapter Closes
The teaser arrives immediately after another significant moment in Martin Garrix’s 2026 calendar.
On September 24, Martin Garrix completed the 11th year of his residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza, continuing a relationship with the island that has become an important part of his touring identity.
Ibiza has provided Martin Garrix with a recurring summer platform where his catalogue, unreleased productions and new collaborations can evolve in front of a large international audience.
His next major appearance takes him considerably farther east, with Martin Garrix scheduled to perform during Marquee’s Formula 1 Race Weekend in Singapore on October 11.
Between those enormous stages, however, “This Dream Of You” reveals a quieter side of the artist.
Beyond the DJ Booth
Electronic music has always allowed artists to reinvent their role.
A producer can become a DJ. A DJ can become a composer. A club artist can move toward songwriting, live instrumentation or audiovisual performance without abandoning the electronic foundations underneath.
Martin Garrix now appears to be testing another version of that freedom.
“This Dream Of You” does not represent a departure from electronic music so much as an expansion of what Martin Garrix is willing to contribute personally to it. The studio, the festival stage, the guitar and his own voice are beginning to occupy the same creative space.
For someone accustomed to communicating with crowds through synthesisers, drops and enormous sound systems, stepping behind the microphone may be a smaller physical movement.
Artistically, it could prove to be a much bigger one.
📷 : Cover Photo / Courtesy of Martin Garrix
📷 : Additional Photo Credits / Courtesy of Martin Garrix
