V.A.T showcases a deeply layered approach to the house music genre with his breathtaking new EP

V.A.T hails from Thessaloniki, Greece and doesn't shy away from professing his love for making music. That love reflects in the way he has beautifully rolled out his catalogue, with a smorgasbord of sounds kept at his disposal when tackling a theme or going after a targeted feeling with a song. It seems as though there's a great amount of openness in his music. Producing everything all by himself, voicing his feelings out into the mic and also collaborating with like-minded individuals who bring the best out of themselves while working with him, he's a force to be reckoned with. V.A.T continues on his productive run with music without sacrificing the quality of his output as an all around brilliant musician.

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With his new EP "Press Play", V.A.T has taken himself to a vast amount of territories that give him a lot of room to play around with numerous perspectives when approaching different varieties of sound. The music sounds intense right from the get go, coming right at us, the listeners, with a strong message about what music is and can be. A voice that sounds timeless, not too futuristic nor antiquated says, "Music is not just about itself, it's about everything else in the world". This voice-over snippet sets the tone for the rest of the piece really well as it defines in such quick succession of passionate sentences the way the music is intended to be heard and how it should be heard.

The music sounds intense right from the get go, coming right at us, the listeners, with a strong message about what music is and can be.

Many-a times it might seem limiting to define music in a few sentences like that but in this case, an exception is to be made by the fact that that single sentence encapsulates a vast amount of outlooks and shifts the focus from craft to actual life. The next track that happens to be the title track, "Press Play" gives us a rundown of V.A.T's collaborator, Elijona Sinjari's voice that really doesn't shy away from boldly jumping out of the speakers and honing a personality of its own. Elijona's accent (which to me sounds Greek) isn't hidden as seen in some of, let's say, the British singers' songs. Most people just go out of their way and train themselves to sing in an American accent which really doesn't make sense if you think about how much authenticity and the tinge of culture is lost through that process.

So, in a way, it's refreshing to see that a vocalist isn't hiding her accent. The mixing takes full advantage of everything that's layered on top of each other for V.A.T, as it should be noted that it is the man himself who has overseen the mix of the EP. The songs that follow the titular track sound like karaoke performances but not in a negative vain, but rather in a way that reminds one of the scenario of drinking in a bar all alone and hearing a mellifluous voice over the karaoke station and whisper screaming, "Wow, that is absolutely mind blowing."

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