Your EDM Premiere: Billain Gives a Totally different Perspective With ‘Totally different Eyes’ [Vision]
By now, everybody in each the D&B and bass worlds is aware of that when Billain is about to drop a brand new launch, it’s going to be a game-changer. Now together with his final releases being in February, the scene is greater than prepared for a brand new joint from the Bosnia-based mega-producer. Or in order that they suppose. Totally different Eyes, the upcoming EP due out this Friday, November 17 on Imaginative and prescient, is as soon as once more going to lock Billain into the head of creativity in bass music.
Having already teased the title monitor two weeks in the past, followers may assume Totally different Eyes can be one other atmospheric idea EP, just like 2022’s Lands Unbreached or 2019’s Nomad’s Revenge. Being that Billain has been so targeted on movie manufacturing together with his multi-award profitable quick Fugitive and scoring mentioned movie in addition to new A/V tasks, it wouldn’t be too farfetched of an assumption. It might, nonetheless, be unsuitable. The quick, aggressive, but painfully emotive D&B types that prompted each trade and followers to change into infatuated with the dizzying ranges of manufacturing this artist can attain is on Totally different Eyes in full pressure.
Whereas nearly each monitor on this EP can simply unalive any dancefloor, it’s necessary to notice that Totally different Eyes remains to be an idea album and a journey, and it needs to be listened to as such not less than as soon as. It begins with the atmospheric, largely beatless surprise of an intro monitor, “It’s First Dream.” This lullaby brings the listener again right into a world that solely Billain totally is aware of: one in all heavy atmos, cyberpunk dreamscapes and limitless lands fabricated from sound and code. It’s truly sort of him to lull the listener into this state, as a result of the following tracks hit so damned exhausting, we nee a buffer.
What follows within the subsequent 5 tracks is a sequence of ever quicker and crunchier bass hurricanes, reflecting chaos and anger and tightly-reigned talent suddenly. Our YEDM premiere is the second monitor, “Baka,” which presumably taken from the anime slang for “loopy” or “silly,” and it actually has the wild chaos of an anime battle scene. Simply the heaviest and most chaotic monitor on the EP, “Baka” drops the listener into the narrative of Totally different Eyes like a 3-meter vert ramp and doesn’t let go till it’s rattling effectively prepared. As intense and chaotic because it sounds, “Baka” was probably essentially the most tightly produced monitor on the album, just by advantage of how chaotic it’s. It’s at all times the maddest syncopation that takes essentially the most programming, and it may additionally be a little bit nod to jazz fusion. Solely the perfect DJs will be capable of combine this monitor, and it’s probably that’s the way in which Billain wished it.
Going by way of the journey of the remainder of the EP with “Kinetic,” “Uncanny Valley,” “FUCK Y00” and “Void Me,” the depth and pace of the work solely will increase, however in contrast to “Baka,” all of them have a trackable drum & bass beat. The EP finally ends up feeling like exploring a wild new planet in some futuristic inside house hellscape, from the prep of “Totally different Eyes” to the bumpy, aggressive tradition shock of “Baka” to discovering one’s stride within the “Uncanny Valley” to being over it already with “FUCK Y00” to the final experience of the ego-destroying experience of “Void Me.” “Totally different Eyes” is the victory lap, a reward for beating the sport and making it by way of this fever dream of an EP.
As a psycho-thriller in sonic type, Totally different Eyes is a mirrored image of doing exhausting inside work. It’s chaos and anger and confusion and a hurricane of feelings, however the title monitor is the purpose: meant to be the brand new perspective as soon as one has let all that lovely ache go. Whether or not you’re engaged on one thing personally or simply unthinkingly comply with the arc of this EP, you’ll come to the top of this masterpiece seeing the world with “Totally different Eyes.”
Totally different Eyes drops tomorrow, November 17 on Imaginative and prescient. Click on here to pre-order or pre-save.
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