Rrose - Waterfall Variations mp3 album

This whole EP is a thing of beauty. Especially the Lucy remix. Good lord.

As just about everything you can get your hands on with Rrose's enigmatic signature, this record is an endless pool of sound design, refined production techniques and avalanches of intense EQ tweaking and filtering. The Lucy remix of the by now classic Waterfall, lays down a crawling 4x4 thud, with evocative guitar riffs and thick echoing waves erupting as the music progresses. Pace wise, it's not not a breakneck affair, yet it remains an intense journey nonetheless. From the guitar tingled intro, through to the grand, sophisticated ending of the track, it picks up in details as it goes on, involuntarily keeping the listener's constant interest.Like the original, Waterfall (Birth) is an aural hallucination, with slight, well, variations. The original went straight for the dancefloors, and was very successful at it too. The version we have here, while unquestionably suitable for the hazy and foggy clubs, at times opts for prolonged sweeping atmospheres and amorphous industrial convulsions, namely during the track's middle part, when he introduces a hypnotic drowned whine, along with the all too familiar killer synth line. Pure bliss. The music then elevates to whole new levels, before ending things with a blast, lettting the rhythmic drone take on the synth play once again, before pulling it all out. This version of Waterfall was actually recorded before the one Rrose released via Sandwell District, and it comes across as more haunting than the original. There's a tad more nervous ambience, in a lack of better terminology, while the original was an all out assault. It's up to you - the listener - to decide which one is more up your alley, but rest assured you can play any one of the two to very satisfactory results.Save the best for last: Shrouds. At the time of writing this, quite probably my favorite Rrose track to date. As the other fellow reviewer here pointed out, this one is simply massive. An utterly accurate and tactful techno work out, Shrouds is a masterpiece of layering and arrangement. It builds through an unparalleled influx of diverse percussion patterns, three dimensional sonorous sweeps, rich textures, seemingly endless, descending upon with each other in such a detailed and restrained manner, that the listener is so drawn into the track by the time the cavernous kick drops some halfway deep, there's no looking back.Strikingly dark, brooding and most of all, creepy, Rrose drops a window shattering beast of a tune, which despite taking quite a while to really get going, yet once it does, I think it turns into one of 2013's most memorable techno moments. The percussion is simply immense, the layering is devastating and the bass line is just outer worldly! Like the reviewer before me pointed out, this must be seriously killing it on a proper sound system. With its murky sorroundings, blurred and constantly shifting soundscapes, imaginative rhythmical passages always seem to emerge at the right time and in the right place, making it impossible for the listener to lose attention and sensation until the tune's very end. Shrouds, despite being lengthy, does not lose momentum for a single second, and it's not a loopy techno exercise, or a laid back fifteen minute dub techno excursion either. Own it, play it, admire it, and cherish it for years to come.

"Shrouds" is an absolute monster of a track, needs to be played loud!!