Vince Leigh’s Single Review: Traces of You by Nytrix
By Vince Leigh (Ex drummer of Pseudo Echo, Tina Arena and John Farnham) of Australian Radio Promotion for Sheldon Ang Media
Vocalist, DJ, and producer Nytrix has been releasing tracks since 2015, steadily growing a fanbase and establishing a reputation for creating EDM tracks that feature a fusion of hooks, EDM aesthetics and dark, emotion-focused explorative lyrics. His latest single, Traces Of You, continues this focus and will undoubtedly satisfy his expanding audience. Nytrix also has a healthy list of achievements to his name, including MTV play (US/Latin America), CLUBBING.TV (EUROPE) feature as ‘Artist of the Week’, Top 5 iTunes Dance Chart, a feature by Steve Aoki on ‘Aoki’s House’ (syndicated radio), 250,000 YouTube views, an editorial feature by Spotify on ‘Bass Lounge’ Playlist, a nomination for a Berlin Music Video Award, a feature by UK’s KISS FM and early radio support from 92.7 FM Chicago, 89.5 FM Seattle.
The EDM star has also had collaborations with platinum-selling artists, including Kiesza and DEV and worked with festival DJs like Gammer, R3hab, Laidback Luke and Henry Fong, performing at almost all insomniac music festivals, from EDC, Beyond Wonderland, Countdown, Lost in Dreams and Hard Summer. Traces Of You might sound like an electro-dance track that ticks all the required boxes—and indeed it does—but gliding above the layers and textures and synths and steady rhythmic pulse is a contemporary pop tune with high-flying melodic components and resonating notes and chords all kept in order by a concise arrangement and polished performances.
Traces Of You is somewhat of a hybrid, as it bridges the electro to the melodic, but it’s a smoothly articulated one and manages to sound more crossover than it is. And Nytrix’s vocal approach also seems to straddle these two worlds, with some moments sounding effortlessly spirited and, during others, tuned to perfection, a characteristic that reinforces the track’s melodic strengths while providing an anchoring tool to which this hybrid style can be tied.
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