OUT Armin van Buuren & AVIRA - Mask EP [Armada]

[MistrSchorli]

Forthcoming EP containing three tracks.

Tracklist:

1. Mask (feat. Sam Martin)
2. Hollow (feat. Be No Rain)
3. Illusion

Mask:

Hollow:

Illusion:

Sounds all pretty nice, Mask is my favourite I think.

 

[TranceForLife]

Mask and illusion sound really nice. i don't hear Armin in these sounds but i like his new experiment. Much more than his cheese pop tracks.

 

[Magdelayna]

those two first vocals are terrible. The first one as an instrumental might not be too bad - apart from the big EDM synth bit.

 

[Archon]

Mask is actually quite cool! Pretty clean, not overly noisy, fun and has a retro vibe to it. Of course, we can't go past the fact that Sam Martin wanted to sound like Lisa Gerrard here, but even though the effort was nowhere near, it's not bad.

Hollow is pretty decent also. Illusion too (although that Sylenth1 preset plucks are starting to get on my nerves). Illusion might be my favourite.

Overall, not something I'd find myself listening to often, but if any of them comes up I won't skip them. Pretty listenable, which is a huge change in direction.

 

[MDD]

At least its not his usual big room cheese. Illusions OK, but not sure on the load base synth or whatever that is spoiling the nice spacey sounds.

 

[chreddy]

Unlike most recent tracks from Armin, these aren't bad.
I never really liked Sam Martin's vocals at all, which is why I kinda hope for an instrumental of Mask. But if I have to be realistic for a second, I really doubt that will ever happen.

 

[Hensmon]

Illusion aint half bad, but still just average track really.

 

[Yelow]

Illusion really gives off the Stephan Bodzin - Strand vibes (i.e. jump to 3:15 or so - similar arp runing in the background, bass wobbles & bass pattern sound)

 

[Archon]

Illusion really gives off the Stephan Bodzin - Strand vibes (i.e. jump to 3:15 or so - similar arp runing in the background, bass wobbles & bass pattern sound)

@Thijs he's compared Armin to Bodzin!!! Blasphemy! Should we ban him?

 

[Bruno]

Not bad, tbf.
Enjoyed all the 3. Armin follows trends, and the new trend after big room and psy, is this new melodic house/techno with trance elements that everyone is playing out there.
Anyway, it's a major improvement from his regular stuff.

 

[TeardropNL]

OUT!
"Mask" is beautiful! Just beautiful !! What a track!

 

[MistrSchorli]

OUT!
"Mask" is beautiful! Just beautiful !! What a track!

After hearing the full version, Mask is still my favourite of the three, like you said, beautiful track.