After a remix for Dadub on Stroboscopic’s Preternity release, Rrose checks in with a full solo release through Monad XVI. This is a record half machine, half beast, at times empathetic but continuously emphatic.
Opener ‘Onceless’ is a nine-minute coalescence of the aural narrative of Apocalypse Now. Running throughout is an incessant buzzing, more helicopter and plane than the label’s favourite bees. From this mechanical source emerges an eerie tribal drumming, slowly bringing the dissonance to a chilling conclusion.
‘The Stare’ begins as optimistically as ‘Onceless’ seemed pessimistic: a beautiful bass drum induces a whirring repeat. This repeat, however, begins to suffocate, absorbing the drum in a slide towards more mechanical disorientation. Paranoid hi-hat and insistent low ends are then introduced to close.
‘Kneeling’ is an amalgam of hi-end loops, the master sampler for a 1980s ‘computer sound’ film stock. The tone is brought back from the electronic precipice by a more verdant perspective in the middle minutes, but this cannot prevent the electronic whirring from passing into final track ‘Wet Silk Will’.
‘WSW’ has a greater jut than its predecessors, breathing and striding in a human form. Yet while it pursues this more human resolve, it certainly retains the EP’s signature pursuit of determined, electronic force.

Rrose 'Monad XVI' [SAM016]

"Although Duchamp now offers everything from trench coats to trousers, the core of the collection is very much occasion wear for men who love dressing up, with velvet tuxedos and evening dresses for events from big nights out to a day at the races. The brand has proved to be a huge hit with the wedding market…after all Duchamp is all about the feel-good factor, and what could be more important than feeling good on your biggest day?" ~ Rrose

When I came to London last year to join fabric and head the A&R for the artist led label Houndstooth I got dragged down to Hackney Wick for what was going to be a life changing techno event of the rawest level. This happening is what has inspired my series of Warehouse Sessions, where I have reached out to my favourite techno artists and asked them to get inspired by that unique thump thump betwixt concrete sounds that industrialised techno spaces always provoke and provide a suitably banging mix for my Electronic Explorations podcast series.
This week I've kicked off another round of mixes lead by Our Circula Sound man Sigha, London resident Ø [Phase], Semantica Records boss and Spanish producer Svreca, Italian producer and co-owner of Repitch Records Shapednoise (One half of Violetshaped) and finally a US producer who has released on Sandwell District & Stroboscopic Artefacts, Rrose.
December 2012 brought mixes by USA producer Skirt, UK producer Truss aka MPIA3, Stormfield & myself, Irish and Greek producers AnD and French producer Kangding Ray (his being voted EE mix from all shows in 2012)

ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - WAREHOUSE SESSIONS
Rrose - 010
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01 - Nicole Reisnour - Night In August '99 (Radical Glass Music)
02 - 400PPM - Evitandus (Avian)
03 - Shifted - Under A Single Banner (Bed of Nails)
04 - Kerridge - From The Shadows 1 (Downwards)
05 - I.B.M. - Kill Bill (Interdimentional Transmissions)
06 - Emptyset - Beyond (Caravan)
07 - Concrete Fence - The Unabridged Truth (PAN)
08 - Arcane Device - Squid (Silent)
09 - Civil Duty - Courier (The Corner)
10 - Omar S - Quadriplegic Companion (FXHE)
11 - Container - Acclimator (Spectrum Spools)
12 - Szare - Arcane Rhythm Structures (Horizontal Ground)
13 - Akkord - Back & Forth (Akkord)
14 - Dungeon Acid - House of Correction (International Sound Laboratory)
15 - Laurel Halo - Ainnome (Hyperdub)
16 - Young Male - Finesse (Work Them)
17 - Planetary Assault Systems - No Exit (Mote Evolver)
18 - Shifted - Razors (Mote Evolver)
19 - Terrence Dixon - Lost at Sea (Surface)
20 - EQD001B (EQD)
21 - Robert Hood - Range (M-Plant)
22 - Dettmann - Iso (Ostgut Ton)
23 - Rrose - The Stare (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
24 - nsi. - Clara Ghavani (Cadenza)
25 - Rrose - Untitled (Eaux)
26 - DJ Spider & Marshallito - CH2FCF3 (Trilogy Tapes)
27 - Ron Morelli - No Real Reason (Hospital Productions)
28 - Marcos Cabral - Hatian Priest (L.I.E.S.)
29 - Demdike Stare - Rain and Shame (Testpressing)

Rrose - EE296 - Electronic Explorations (Warehouse Sessions 010)

Live recording from the Analog Rytm, read more about it on: http://www.elektron.se/products/analog-rytm

Analog Four is being fed into the Rytm's input. By doing this, the audio from Analog Four is fed through the master compression.

Rytm Meets Analog Four

Live recording from the Analog Rytm, read more about it on: http://www.elektron.se/products/analog-rytm

Heavy 4/4 track with lot of distortion applied towards to end.

Heavy

Elektron Users meet at Belgrave Music Hall 27 Sept 2014.
Totally improvised, recorded in one take, no multi-tracking, overdubs, fixes etc. Has been truncated & normalised.

Features Baddcr, BlueWolfSe7en, iPassenger, Koshimazaki, Throw & 853

WYE Live Improv 1

Elektron Science Lab Feb 2015.
Challenge is to create a track from the spoken phrase 'We're not talking about a simple looping device'.
No drum machines, synths or other instrumentation whatsoever, just that phrase.
Played live on the Octatrack & recorded directly from its outputs in one take. No post, Mastering, Editing or Normalising.

Octatrack - BlueWolfSe7en - Indicator Six

Live jam recorded straight to 2 track prior to Peterborough performance. No overdubs.
Mutant Drums, Struck DPO, Optomixed Dinkys & STO.
FX-Clouds & Echophon.

PrePtbrJam2Trk DemoF

This is a recordng of the short live performance I played at Op Tronica on the 17 September 2017.

Modular is doing most of the beats, acid sounds, chord stabs, delay loops, intro and outro drones and effects.

Analog Keys is doing backing pads and some extra melodic sounds.

OpTronica Live Set 17-09-2017

Spanish duo Pi-xl & Weapons of Bass Destruction performing together, face to face: expect the unexpected!!

Released by:
Shameless Toady (London, UK)
Release/catalogue number:
TOAD016D
Release date:
28/1/2013

http://pi-xl.bandcamp.com/album/cell-engine

"The World's End" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_2UtMB4cy4

Bandcamp

[TOAD016D] Cell Engine - Cell Engine (Preview)

http://eaux.ro/album/waterfall-variations

Rrose 'Waterfall' (Lucy Remix) [EAUX491]

Strange Beautiful Machines

BlueWolfSe7en is a Hardware Electronic Project by Phil Curtis Hall

