German-Polish producer and DJ liquidfive (Martin Maximilian Kotzur) returns this Friday 12 September with his new single Leave An Echo. Since breaking through with Freedom in 2017, liquidfive has carved a reputation for crafting euphoric dance-pop that has connected on both festival stages and radio.
For Kotzur, music has always been about more than beats. After setbacks and milestones, from the deeply personal Back 2 U written after a devastating apartment fire, to the success of Veins which climbed into the US iTunes Dance Top 10, his songs have become a way of turning lived experience into something universal. That instinct carries straight into Leave An Echo.
The new track opens with a vocal line brimming with vulnerability, before layers of glowing synths and pulsing rhythms build around it. It’s a song that threads the line between tension and release: one moment it feels like a quiet reminder of the weight of ones memory, the next it surges into a rush of sound that demands movement. “This song is about the idea that nothing we live through is ever really lost,” Kotzur says. “People, moments, and emotions leave a mark on us – an echo that stays even when time moves on.” With its balance of emotion and energy, Leave An Echo is both a personal statement and a crowd anthem in waiting.
The accompanying video mirrors that tension, following a woman driving alone through the night, her solitude cut against flashes of a crowded club. It plays like an escape that never fully takes hold — as though she’s running from something, only to be pulled back into its orbit.
Leave An Echo is out now, via liquidfives own label, 5L-Recordings.
