Andrew Bayer: a huge name, which stands for huge tunes.
Warning, warning, new music alert! If you’ve been a fan of the prodigy that is Andrew Bayer, or you love music that loves to push all known limits of production, techniques, and creativity, you’re in for a treat. And it is all because he’s just released a brand-new three-parter. Titled the Places I Belong EP, Bayer once again shows why he’s been atop the Progressive Trance scene for over a decade now, both under his own name, and as a co-producer to legendary trio Above & Beyond.
Andrew Bayer, A Synonym With Originality
Fans and not-so-much-so have at least one undeniable fact to agree on concerning Bayer: his productions have consistently been at the forefront of technique. Ever since his deeper times in 2009 with ‘To The Six‘, through his first albums It’s Artificial in 2011 and If It Were You, We’d Never Leave in 2013, to more recent tracks such as ‘Only You Boy‘ and ‘Bottle Top Trance‘ both from 2019, you can hear that quality of him.
It’s the art of setting the trend and the standard sound for two, three, and four years after his tracks that makes Andrew Bayer as big as he is. In a way, he’s a source of inspiration for other producers to try out new elements, and new processes. I remember one short interview he did when he released ‘Bottle Top Trance’, in which he detailed he had spent a good amount of time perfecting, and I can’t stress this enough, harmonies made with the resonance knob of the main saw he used during the drop. Harmonies. From. Resonance. Five years have passed and that sentence still blows my mind. I wish I could find the source. You’ll have to trust me for now.
Places I Belong
In yet another chapter of “Breaking The Confines Of Production“, Bayer turns to Seven Lions’ imprint Ophelia to release the Places I Belong EP, a three-track collection of his sound. Just like you’d expect from him, the overall style of production here resembles a heavy-on-Electro-House Progressive Trance beat, with innovative ways of experimenting with sound.
Because, yes, the EP is full of Electro growls and saws, but they’re placed and fiddled with in a way you wouldn’t expect. Flangers, arpeggios, chords, resonance (yet again), async-d LFOs for the Trance melodies… The more you stare at it, the more ear candy you’ll find. In fact, it may be a first for him, but I hadn’t heard him build an EP on a handful of the Massive VST sounds before if I remember correctly. You can even taste a bit of Nicky Romero’s ‘Toulouse‘ somewhere in between!
On this EP three more artists join him: label boss Seven Lions and resident Ophelia vocalist Fiora star on the title track, ‘Places I Belong‘, and singer Rob Tirea leads the movement on ‘Fear Of Losing You‘. As for ‘Blood Pressure‘, that’s 100% Bayer.
Andrew Bayer – Places I Belong EP Tracklist
- Fear Of Losing You featuring Rob Tirea
- Blood Pressure
- Places I Belong with Seven Lions featuring Fiora
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