The new single is the kickoff to a new Tranquility Base EP, much like we had last year.
It’s no surprise that Above & Beyond‘s ABGT600 set was full of IDs, some we had been hearing for a while, and others which had their premiere at that very stage in Mexico City. The boys didn’t take too long to start releasing some of these goodies, luckily for us. And the first one to see the light of day is ‘React‘, out today.
Rinsed across the globe over the last months, ‘React’ is not only the first song of them to be released since ABGT600, but it’s also the first single of a new Tranquility Base EP, much like the one we got last year, and whose focal point was experimenting with sounds resemblant to their old, legendary alias, Tranquility Base.
‘React’
‘React’ is the first of five singles which will make up the Tranquility Base Vol. 2 EP, to come out on December 6th. Its predecessor, Vol. 1, peaked in the #1 slot on Beatport’s Techno releases chart, with singles ‘Angry JP8’ and ‘500’ hitting Beatport Trance #1. We can certainly expect some interesting things with this new offering.
Woven together by yesteryear synths processed in a modern style, the first seconds of the drop actually remind us of Andrew Bayer’s remix of Push’s classic ‘Strange World’, and then the song takes on a life of its own, tinting detuned supersaws over moogish basslines. The break sees listeners go through a substantial tempo change, for what feels like 108 BPM, to then go back to the energy of the first drop, while carrying the melody of the break.
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