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REVIEW: Estiva - Rays/Aylu out on Anjunabeats


 Dutch producer Steven Baan, aka Estiva, returns to Anjunabeats with his progressive two-tracker 'Rays / Aylu'.

Estiva is a name that’s become synonymous with high quality progressive music. A favourite across editorial playlists, his tracks recently featured in Spotify’s Night Rider, Tantra and mint Acoustic, as well as Amazon’s Progressive Dance and Trance Liftoff.

He followed up four impressive remixes on Anjunabeats with his ‘Sky EP’ in late 2021, which has since racked up over 1 million streams on Spotify alone. The first track on his latest single, ‘Rays’, was spun by Above & Beyond during their ABGT500 Deep Set back in October.

Last year, Estiva took the helm at Hi Ibiza, ASOT Festival, Dreamstate festival, Yalta Club Bulgaria, EDC China, Sound Academy Toronto, Airwalk festival, Tomorrowland and beyond. He also found the time to drop two EP’s and 11 singles on Enhanced Music, Potentially Dreaming and Grum’s Deep State Recordings, and mixed Colorize’s Colorscapes Volume Four compilation series.

"These tracks are about a state of daydreaming and drifting away from reality. The chords in 'Rays' are destined to make you forget about the world around you. The somewhat undefinable vocal bits are there to be interpreted by you, hopefully resulting in an intimate, personal listening experience. The intentions of 'Aylu' are clearly more urgent, and are spreading a clear message." - Estiva

Estiva's 'Rays / Aylu' is out now on Anjunabeats. 




Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[item value="10"]Beat and Rhythm[/item]
[item value="10"]Basslines and Groove[/item]
[item value="10"] Melody [/item]
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[item value="10"]Breakdown[/item]
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[item value="10"]Intensity, Drive and Energy[/item]
[item value="10"]Sound-design and Arrangement[/item]
[item value="10"]Overall Atmosphere[/item]
[item value="10"]Goosebumps / Shivers moments[/item]
[item value="10"]Emotional affinity and heartfelt moments[/item]
[item value="10"]Originality and Inventiveness[/item]
[item value="10"]Radio Friendly[/item]
[item value="10"]You can’t get this memorable track out of your head[/item]
[item value="10"]It has potential to become an anthem or a classic[/item]
[item value="10"] Estiva - Rays/Aylu[/item]
[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]Estiva is one of the most talented artists out there with highly contagious releases so far from progressive trance to progressive house and melodic techno. His brand new tracks on Anjunabeats manifest in the best possible way his abilities to create club tracks that will last and will be enjoyed many times on repeat mode.  Rays is deep melodic progressive house with soulful house style vocal snippets accompanied by great percussion and deep haunting basslines. You can sense even some Jazz infusions to it. The demanding sound and great sonic soundscapes will attract you like magnet straight away on the dancefloor to dance the night away. Aylu on the other hand moves on the deep melodic house direction with superb wonky chunky percussion, deep basslines, melancholic piano chords and strings and cool male vocals supported by female spoken vocals. You can call it as very sexy imminent truly arousing track that easily crawls under your skin and you simply feel it in your blood veins. Eclectic and Classy sounds for sure!  #PureGold Love IT [/content]
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