Anthony Reyers and Xander van Dommelen better known as Xijaro & Pitch are a rising Trance duo known for their emotional, uplifting melodies and energetic sets. With support from top labels like Armada and FSOE, they’ve gained recognition for their collaborations with artists like Armin van Buuren, Aly & Fila, and more.
We had a chance to sit down with Anthony right after his set at A State of Trance 2025 in Rotterdam.
How’s 2025 been going for you?
It has a bit of a quieter start, but that’s very often the case in the beginning of the year. But that gave me time to be busy a lot in the studio making new tracks and preparing for the rest of the year because there’s some really cool stuff coming. And, of course now it exploded with a bang, that’s for sure.
Please tell us something about Chasing Dreams.
Chasing Dreams is our brand. It’s what we do basically and it all started in the lockdown when I was streaming on Twitch and saw a lot of people who apparently were very inspired by what I was doing. People apparently think that if you don’t see and you do all the stuff, that it is inspiring, and it inspires them to do all kinds of stuff they want to do. That’s why when we wanted to go further and do like an actual radio show, along with the label, we wanted to tap into that inspiring thing because for me it’s an honor to inspire people. If I can do something that makes people do positive things in their life that’s one of the most beautiful compliments one can get as an artist. So chasing dreams is really about that.
What are the future plans regarding chasing dreams?
There’s a lot in the pipeline, we really try to get people who produce quality music and give them the opportunity to release with us along with emphasis on people with disability because, obviously, I’m blind myself and I find it really important that people with disability should be represented in this scene. I’m really trying to work with other blind producers and people from other disabilities as well to see if there’s any talent there.
We saw you for the first time 7-8 years back on ASOT when you came for Service for Dreamers, dancing very innocently & that time we decided to meet you in person someday.
Dance, ah that’s all happening because obviously I don’t have any reference point about how I should dance on Trance. Even on stage I do whatever the hell I feel like doing in my own way.
How do you collaborate with your partner in crime knowing that you cannot see.
There’s now quite a few pieces of software that have been adjusted for accessibility but it’s a very challenging thing when it comes to producing. It is doable, but it’s not as fast and it’s not as convenient as when you were blind. So I wrote all the melodies literally, wrote them down in some scripting language, and then I converted them to midi. ABC Music – very short scripting language and it’s made to be programmed fast where you just have a letter and a number that indicates note and length, this makes it really fast to write melodies. So if I have a melody in my head I know which notes they are and then I would send them to my partner and then would load them in his DAW and then we would start.
Mostly all your productions are on higher BPM. So any future plans on downtempo material?
Right after COVID, I was really thinking about producing deep stuff, now at the moment, the scene has turned and I don’t have these plans anymore. If I have future plans then it’s to raise the tempo 145 maybe even hardstyle. Who knows?
These days Insta reels and TikTok with thirty seconds of content culture, what’s your take on it?
I have a quite nuanced take on this because on one hand it’s sad that people don’t appreciate 9 or 10 minute tracks anymore which build up slowly. But on the other hand, I see that there’s a lot of creativity in a bunch of the different scenes that do grab people’s attention. For example, if I may mention hard style again it’s a bit of my guilty pleasure, there people are changing kicks every four bars so they have to invent new kicks every four bars just to get people’s attention. So I think it’s both good and bad. You have a movement and a counter movement, it’s always going up and down. For example, everything is short in form like TikTok and now how popular are long podcasts of two and a half hours suddenly.
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