Your EDM Premiere: Billain Offers a Different Perspective With ‘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 new launch, it’s going to be a game-changer. Now along with his final releases being in February, the scene is greater than prepared for a new joint from the Bosnia-based mega-producer. Or so that they suppose. Different Eyes, the upcoming EP due out this Friday, November 17 on Vision, is as soon as once more going to lock Billain into the top of creativity in bass music.

Having already teased the title observe two weeks in the past, followers may assume Different Eyes will probably be one other atmospheric idea EP, much like 2022’s Lands Unbreached or 2019’s Nomad’s Revenge. Being that Billain has been so targeted on movie manufacturing along 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 would, nevertheless, be fallacious. The quick, aggressive, but painfully emotive D&B types that induced each business and followers to turn out to be infatuated with the dizzying ranges of manufacturing this artist can attain is on Different Eyes in full power.

While nearly each observe on this EP can simply unalive any dancefloor, it’s essential to notice that Different Eyes continues to be a idea album and a journey, and it needs to be listened to as such at the least as soon as. It begins with the atmospheric, largely beatless surprise of an intro observe, “It’s First Dream.” This lullaby brings the listener again into a world that solely Billain absolutely is aware of: one in every of heavy atmos, cyberpunk dreamscapes and countless lands manufactured from sound and code. It’s really type of him to lull the listener into this state, as a result of the subsequent tracks hit so damned arduous, 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 suddenly. Our YEDM premiere is the second observe, “Baka,” which presumably taken from the anime slang for “crazy” or “foolish,” and it definitely has the wild chaos of an anime struggle scene. Easily the heaviest and most chaotic observe on the EP, “Baka” drops the listener into the narrative of 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 doubtless probably the most tightly produced observe on the album, just by advantage of how chaotic it’s. It’s at all times the maddest syncopation that takes probably the most programming, and it may also be a little nod to jazz fusion. Only the very best DJs will be capable to combine this observe, and it’s doubtless that’s the best way 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 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 inside area hellscape, from the prep of “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 trip of the ego-destroying trip of “Void Me.” “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 kind, Different Eyes is a reflection of doing arduous inside work. It’s chaos and anger and confusion and a hurricane of feelings, however the title observe is the aim: meant to be the brand new perspective as soon as one has let all that stunning ache go. Whether you’re engaged on one thing personally or simply unthinkingly observe the arc of this EP, you’ll come to the top of this masterpiece seeing the world with “Different Eyes.”

Different Eyes drops tomorrow, November 17 on Vision. Click right here to pre-order or pre-save.

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