Steven Baan launched the Estiva project in 2007 and has been one of the most consistent voices in melodic progressive house since. Early releases on Enhanced Recordings, Anjunabeats, and Armada established him as a producer with an unusually disciplined sense of arrangement — his tracks were never the loudest on a compilation, but they were among the most listenable across full-album play.
His most enduring home has been Colorize, the Enhanced sub-label that has substantially defined the "soft" wing of progressive house through the 2010s and 2020s. Estiva returned to Colorize in 2025 to release his fifth studio album, Embrace, following Infinita (2023) — a record that pushed his sound further toward the melodic-techno crossover space that has expanded his audience beyond the traditional Anjuna-progressive listener.
Estiva's mixed compilations — Colorscapes Volume Seven and earlier entries in the same series — have become reference points for the modern long-form progressive aesthetic. The Colorcast Radio appearances and ADE 2024 special have kept him visible to the label's editorial audience year-round, and his 2025 calendar has included Colorize London at Colour Factory and major European festival appearances.
His Spotify presence sits at roughly 340K monthly listeners — comfortably in the upper bracket of progressive-house artists who maintain a serious-listener audience without crossing fully into mainstream territory. For listeners interested in the post-Anjunabeats / pre-Afterlife middle ground, Estiva is currently one of its most reliable ambassadors, with a deep enough back catalogue to reward a year of attentive listening.
Sound Style
Lush melodic progressive house with techno-leaning rhythm sections — warm pads, song-led vocal collaborations balanced against extended instrumental breakdowns, and the kind of harmonic patience that the Anjunabeats / Colorize tradition has refined since the late 2000s.