First cycle: the artist is electronic, the tracks have genres

From Nothing to Hold a release arc emerged, connected by theme as well as sound.

Nothing to Hold introduces emptiness and the loss of something to hold on to. Taking Control was positioned as the harder, more club-oriented side of StrategyX, less a vocal song: the instinct to restore order. Freedom (No Control), the most clearly trance-oriented release of the series, makes the paradox explicit: perhaps freedom comes not from gathering more control but from letting the need for it go.

The album I Am Over You is the frame in which that movement completes, with songs including Crossing the Line, Stay With Me, I Am Over You and Letting Go. The title works because it sounds so final — and invites the counter-question: if you are really over something, why do you still need to say it? "You" can be a person, but also an old self-image, a system, control or dependency.

Assembling the album led to an important observation: it is not a pure trance record. Some tracks are dance, some electronic pop, some progressive electronic; Freedom (No Control) is clearly trance.

That produced the second key decision: the artist is electronic; the tracks have genres — not the other way round. In practice this means choosing the genre per track at distribution, instead of placing all of StrategyX under trance. Labelling an electronic-pop track as trance helps no one. The umbrella identity is electronic; metadata may be more specific.