Dutch producer Estiva releases his ‘What Is Love EP’, out now on Anjunabeats.
Steven Baan, aka Estiva, has become synonymous with high quality progressive music. By no means a stranger to our label, he’s has already supplied four impressive remixes to our catalogue, including reworks of Daniel Kandi and Super8 & Tab. In October 2021, he released his first solo original material on Anjunabeats, the 'Sky EP'.
Estiva kicked off this year by dropping his progressive two-tracker ‘Rays / Aylu’, which shot to #3 in the Beatport Top 100 Progressive House chart and earned support from Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Farius and more. He followed that up with the release of his latest album, ‘Infinita’, on Colorize, alongside an extensive tour across Europe and North America.
Following on from recent appearances at ASOT London, Noir Toronto and Euforia Festival, Estiva is set to perform at Dreamstate SoCal, Beachclub Fuel, Colorize Amsterdam and more.
Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]It is not understatement that I truly adore Estiva music through the years. From his memorable trance hymns on Enhanced to his more techno oriented output at Colorize and Anjunabeats. His What Is Love EP is masterclass to music production that combines elements from trance, techno and house in order to come up with something fresh, exciting and even experimental with huge clubfloor appeal. Each track has its own signature sound. What Is Love as u can imagine is the more melancholic romantic melodramatic beauty that attempts successfully to set the question of what is really love. Nostalgia is the more trance oriented with superb layering of the various melodies dark and more optimistic leading to the cinematic lethargic breakdown with dreamy smooth but very danceable climax with the word Nostalgia describing well what we all feel when we hear this tune. EVO continues on the same direction with certain upfront atmosphere and very unique melodramatic synthy stabs and distorted male vocals highlighting the darkness and moodiness of the result! So classy indeed! #PureGold Love IT [/content]
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[item value="10"]You can’t get this memorable track out of your head[/item]
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