Beginning her public profession in 2015, REZZ has soared to common occasion billings together with her model of digital insanity; starting her short-but-storied discography with an emphasis on bass and digital percussion, her current day contributions and stylings derive from heavy melodic inspirations combined together with her eager ear for sick beats, all the identical.
Before REZZ in Chandler, Arizona on March 8th introduced by Relentless Beats, try this checklist under of REZZ selects, spanning from the start to current day of her musical journey.
5. “Gremlin”
Five years in the past in 2014, Rezz shared her first observe and gave the Soundcloud world a glimpse of what's to return. With minimalist progressive home parts, “Gremlin” is a divergent from what her catalog would evolve into. The grime-y and mechanical synth work backs the calming-yet-frenetic digital percussion that might match splendidly in some native city’s membership Goth Night. While not as melodically targeted as her future work, “Gremlin” is an fascinating dip into progressive, and generally acerbically pure home vibes.
four. “Negative”
After spending two years investigating the darker sounds talked about above, “Negative” marks the purpose in her catalog when the melodic influences started to take maintain. Marking the yr of 2016 when Progressive House reigned king and commenced to turn out to be extra melodic, the heavy concentrate on what looks like a digital sitar combines with Mid East harmonies earlier than divulging into that darkish, deep-toned bass we heard in her previous tracks. As the cymbals again this brooding, ear-splitting bass, the sitar repeatedly strikes out and in with spurts of melody.
three. Melancholy (with Laura Brehm)
This collaboration between REZZ and widespread Monstercat collaborator Laura Brehm off of the Something Wrong Here EP launched in 2016 on mau5trap mixes the smooth-as-vanilla styled vocals to a relaxing acoustic guitar and REZZ’s interpretation of repeating chords and intense, fast-paced percussion. Calmer and extra central with its theme than her previous work, REZZ lets the lyrics and vocals take over whereas using the underlying instrumentals to go with the principle melody. Although pop in nature, this surprisingly infectious contribution to her catalog nonetheless retains a smidgen of the grit she was as soon as identified for.
2. “Livid”
Straight off of her 2017 Mass Manipulation debut full-length LP (additionally launched on Mau5Trap), REZZ revisits these grittier sounds of the previous, however this time mashing it with some city, traditional manufacturing stylings alongside the best way. The classically-introduced drop than evolves into an automatic-repeating melody carrying the heavier percussion to the following stage utilizing the ability of darkish and soiled synth work. The easy markers of the melody in-between the drops have extra musical suspense than prior to now few tracks, and resembles the end result of what her catalog would evolve into by current day. “Livid” is a dark-yet-fun observe at coronary heart, however stays true to its grit with its extra difficult parts.
1. “Spider On The Moon”
Closing out the checklist with an odd solo-selection from 2018’s sophomore album, Certain Kind of Magic, REZZ goes again to easy rules and barely Trip Hop interludes paying homage to Zero 7‘s early work and Sia‘s second Trip-Hop laden album, Healing Is Difficult. Even on an album smacked with collaborations, “Spider On The Moon” displays an digital class that sums up the present state of her profession fairly properly — she will nonetheless pump out these chilled-out percussion heavy jams, however nonetheless has the capability to drag off numerous melodic executions different artists fail to achieve. As the haunting horror-movie-esque strings construct as much as one of many later drops, “Spider On The Moon” brings the phantasm, magic, and thriller parts the album seeks to seize.
Join us to expertise, Check out REZZ lighting up Chandler, Arizona on March 8th on the Rawhide Event Center, hosted by Relentless Beats.