Hold On

Work on Hold On began in December 2016, more than two years before its release. On 27 October 2017, Linda B — presenter and DJ of The Breakbeat Show on Manchester’s ALL FM 96.9 — played it during The Breakbeat Show, Vol. 1. The tracklist billed it as A. Out — Hold On (ID Mix). The track was already being heard on radio in an early form, roughly fifteen months before the EP.

The EP arrived on 27 January 2019 as the second release in the Cortex Stimulation series. It presented Hold On in three forms: the compact 4:15 Edit, a separate 4:16 Instrumental without the vocal, and the 8:02 full version, an extended format for breaks DJs. The Instrumental did not replace the vocal version; the two were released side by side.

On 22 February 2020, Hold On (Edit) opened Motor Cortex Stimulation. No new album version was made: the album uses the same Edit released in January 2019.

That sequence took Hold On from an early radio ID to a standalone EP in three versions and, just over a year after the EP, to the opening track on Motor Cortex Stimulation.