10.0
Showcasing a versatile and expansive range of music, Grammy-winning dance music DJ & producer, Afrojack, has today released a new EP titled “Press Play”. The EP features cross-genre dance music from club bangers to melodic anthems to progressive-house and includes an impressive fourteen tracks. Some of the tracks are already released and others are new today. The EP is also being released on Wall Recordings.
“Press Play” is packed with live set fixtures and many collaborations with artists who are signed to Afrojack’s Wall Recordings such as Chico Rose, Chasner, DISTO and Jewelz & Sparks. Fans will enjoy progressive-House-flavored singles like ‘When You’re Gone’ and ‘2012’ to club-oriented cuts such as ‘Let It Rip’ and ‘Own Game’. As the name says, this EP will make fans ‘Press Play’ in an instant and repeat the process to prolong the magic of this fourteen-track melodic journey.
“For me, this was more of a journey to show a different side of me with the different styles of music I’ve been doing,” Afrojack said. “I’ve been playing a lot of tracks with the new artists I signed to my label in my sets, so it made sense to put out all of the music fans have been hearing since Ultra this year on the EP. You’ll hear familiar and unfamiliar sounds with some great artists and I can’t wait for the fans to hear it all.
Named the #8 DJ in the world by DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll (his seventh consecutive year of appearing in the Top 10) and slated to continue that tradition through this year’s voting, Afrojack is one of the most popular dance music acts of today and a sought-after producer who’s won a Grammy for his and David Guetta’s remix of Madonna’s ‘Revolver’ and worked with everyone from Pitbull to Sting and Chris Brown. Coming from a two-year period that saw him drop an array of hits such as ‘Bad Company’ with Dirtcaps, ‘Helium’ with David Guetta and Sia, and a remix of U2’s iconic ‘Get Out Of Your Own Way’, Afrojack continues to bend genres as a musician with an admirable work ethic, huge output and peerless sense of what makes a record erupt in music scenes across the globe. Add to that the gamut of top-tier festivals he wrecks the mainstages of and you know Afrojack is in it to win it whenever he drops a new crowd favorite, let alone an entire fourteen-track EP.
Tracklist:
1. Afrojack - Bringin it back
2. Afrojack ft. Brohug & Titus - Let It Rip
3. Afrojack & MC Ambush - Step Back
4. Afrojack & Chasner - Own Game
5. Afrojack - Another Level
6. Afrojack ft. Jewelz & Sparkz & Esther Dean - When you're gone.
7. Afrojack x Jewelz & Sparks - One More Day (Nicky Romero Remix)
8. Afrojack - Time
9. Afrojack & Chico Rose – 2012
10. Afrojack - Bassride
11. Afrojack & Disto - My City
12. Afrojack & Disto - Put It Down
13. Afrojack & Ricky Breaker - Flawless Victory
14. Afrojack ft. Oliver Twizt & Angger Dimas & MC Ambush - Pop That
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Dimitri Kechagias review:
Beat and Rhythm10
Basslines and Groove10
Melody 10
Synths 10
Vocals and Lyrics10
Breakdown10
Climax / Drop / Crescendo / Pay off moment10
Intensity, Drive and Energy10
Sound-design and Arrangement10
Overall Atmosphere10
Goosebumps / Shivers moments10
Emotional affinity and heartfelt moments10
Originality and Inventiveness10
Dancefloor Efficiency / Festival Arenas Effectiveness10
Radio Friendly10
You can’t get this memorable track out of your head10
It has potential to become an anthem or a classic10
Afrojack - Press Play10
Summary
Afrojack continues to impress with his worldwide hits and his album Press Play is jam packed with prime time material that any DJ or fan of big dancing beats will adore straight away. The album includes big room, dubstep, and electro house tracks that will keep dancefloors and car players pretty busy. Bringin it back is a powerful mixture of heavy dubstep beats, electronic melodies, big synthy hooks, clever vocal samples and rough distorted basslines. Let It Rip is banging booming groovy electro house with sharp basslines, stomping drums, strong vocals and playful melodies. Step Back is powerful to the bone like leaving unattended a massive bulldozer on the dancefloor without breaks to stop it. Own Game is an excessive big room monster with piano melody and pitched up vocal while the drop is big fat and ferocious to the max. Another Level makes use of robotic vocals while the drop is packed with distorted crazy basslines, heavy drums and razor sharp synths to cut you deep. When you're gone is more ladies friendly track with playful pizzicato style melody in the drop while the singing in the breakdown is smooth and romantic with piano melody to die for. One More Day is included on the fat future house meets big room and in your head Nicky Romero version that festival crowds super adore and they love to clap and jump along. Time is an excellent rave friendly track with rough stomping beats, smashing wonky basslines, cool vocal samples and very nice breakdown with trancy synthy melody perfect for time travel. 2012 is what festival big room sound is about. In your face no holes barred rough beats with harddance infusions to it. Very sweet breakdown followed by thunderous climax perfect to blow your whistles. Bassride as the track suggests is an unstoppable rough electro house smasher that relentlessly builds and keeps the audience bumping along and riding the bass. My City includes distorted vocals upon the wonky distorted basslines while the breakdown includes trap and dubstep sequences. Put It Down is dubstep with attitude that means fat, fast, furious, unconventional and outrageously gorgeous including an old school drum n bass sequence. Flawless Victory combines big synths, danceable dubstep beats and heavy bass while the drop goes the hard dance direction. Finally Pop That is raging, menacing, trap with heavy swinging rough beats while in the second part big epic synth is added to close the album in style. Afrojack service an album that represents what he plays in his sets without the pressure of delivering a worldwide hit. This is Afrojack back to his roots.10.0
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