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 top of creativity in bass music.
Having already teased the title monitor two weeks in the past, followers may assume Totally different Eyes will likely 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 brief Fugitive and scoring mentioned movie in addition to new A/V tasks, it wouldn’t be too farfetched of an assumption. It will, nonetheless, be flawed. The quick, aggressive, but painfully emotive D&B types that triggered each trade and followers to turn into infatuated with the dizzying ranges of manufacturing this artist can attain is on Totally different Eyes in full drive.
Whereas virtually each monitor on this EP can simply unalive any dancefloor, it’s essential to notice that Totally different Eyes continues to be an idea album and a journey, and it must be listened to as such at the very least as soon as. It begins with the atmospheric, largely beatless marvel of an intro monitor, “It’s First Dream.” This lullaby brings the listener again right into a world that solely Billain absolutely is aware of: certainly one of heavy atmos, cyberpunk dreamscapes and limitless lands manufactured from sound and code. It’s really type 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 sooner and crunchier bass hurricanes, reflecting chaos and anger and tightly-reigned talent unexpectedly. Our YEDM premiere is the second monitor, “Baka,” which presumably taken from the anime slang for “loopy” or “silly,” and it definitely has the wild chaos of an anime struggle 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 properly prepared. As intense and chaotic because it sounds, “Baka” was doubtless probably the most tightly produced monitor on the album, just by advantage of how chaotic it’s. It’s all the time the maddest syncopation that takes probably the most programming, and it may additionally be a bit of nod to jazz fusion. Solely the perfect DJs will be capable of combine this monitor, and it’s doubtless that’s the best way Billain wished it.
Going by means of the journey of the remainder of the EP with “Kinetic,” “Uncanny Valley,” “FUCK Y00” and “Void Me,” the depth and velocity of the work solely will increase, however not like “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 interior 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 journey of the ego-destroying journey of “Void Me.” “Totally different Eyes” is the victory lap, a reward for beating the sport and making it by means of this fever dream of an EP.
As a psycho-thriller in sonic type, Totally different Eyes is a mirrored image of doing exhausting interior work. It’s chaos and anger and confusion and a hurricane of feelings, however the title monitor is the aim: meant to be the brand new perspective as soon as one has let all that lovely ache go. Whether or not you might be engaged on one thing personally or simply unthinkingly comply with the arc of this EP, you’ll come to the tip of this masterpiece seeing the world with “Totally different Eyes.”
Totally different Eyes drops tomorrow, November 17 on Imaginative and prescient. Click on right here to pre-order or pre-save.
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