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R-N 123 . TRACK LIST :

1 . Athem
2 . Mojave
3 . Odd Sympathy
4 . Pruitt Igoe . ( or version )
5 . Or
6 . Mirrors
7 . Coracoid Process
8 . En Amaryllis Jour
9 . Lea vaila Scheme
10 . Monsters
11 . La Belle

CREDITS	

All tracks written and produced by Kangding Ray
Voices and lyrics on Pruitt Igoe, Coracoid Process and Odd Sympathy by Magne Mostue.
Voices on Athem and Monsters by Rose Tizane Merrill.
Words on Monsters freely pirated from « T.A.Z, the temporay autonomous zone, ontological anarchy, poetic terrorism » by Hakim Bey . ( anti-copyright, 1985, 1991 ) Available at www.autonomedia.org
Progressive keys on Or by Ben Frost
Drums on Coracoid Process and Or performed by Yacine Djeradi
Percussions on Odd Sympathy performed by Achille Farese
Salamander Modular synth for Monsters wired by Matia Simovich
Mastered by Andreas « Lupo » Lubich at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin
©2010 . raster-noton . r-n 123

Press text :	

After the Pruitt Igoe E.P, Kangding Ray returns with his third album for raster-noton, pushing further his explorations on the edge of digital and analog sounds. With OR, Kangding Ray continues to blur the borders between experimental and bass music, and brings his signature sound to another level, somewhere at the darkest fringe of club culture.
With the massive metallic beats of « athem », the frightening distorded waves of « Mojave », the elevated groove of « Odd Sympathy », the modulated guitar walls of « Leavaila Scheme », or the low-bitrate Everest of « La Belle », KR creates deep atmospheres, loaded with echoes of collapsing economies, dysfunctional political systems, and corporate alienation.In an abstract manner, OR depicts the desillusions of modern civilizations, while initiating a positive reflection on crisis as a creative state.
OR (« gold » in french), as the only chemical element that seems to keep its value for eternity, refers to the cult of endless consumption and the absurdity of fluctuating currency valuations, while in english, as a logical operator or grammatical conjunction, OR represents the possibility of another choice, an « inclusive disjunction » which suggests that there might be another answer, a different path to follow.
Noticeable inputs have been provided by Ben Frost, who composed a keyboard line for « Or », Rose Tizane Merrill who lend her voice to the anarchist poem « Monsters », and Magne Mostue who wrote the words and sang on « Coracoid Process » as well as the vocal version of the prophetic electronic mantra « Pruitt Igoe ».

Laidback Niceness

Ambient

techno

Kangding Ray R-N 123 .

Atonal

Kangding Ray

dabp - Twunggg! (I Guess We'll Wait)

A short ambient piece wrote a while back. It might appear on my album one day but thought I'd give it away to fellow Soundclouders for now :)

Update: this track is featured on the surf film The North Canyon - Nazaré Calling, check out the beautiful trailer here:
http://vimeo.com/55189546

Clear The Air

One from my new album, Oppositeland. 
Download Reaching the end for free on: http://threesixtyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/reaching-the-end
Check out Album Promo video by beun&haas visuals: http://youtu.be/XXLpX9h8R88

About Oppositeland:
If you think about oppositeland, the first things that come to mind are for instance: Every one is walking backwards, every thing is upside down, you talk in an opposite language and you are wearing your clothes inside out.
But if you think about it a little longer you'll soon discover that it goes a bit deeper. Your senses will get messy as well, you can hear smelly things and taste sound waves and amplitudes. Eventually you’ll learn that there is actually nothing in oppositeland, that we do have in normal life. And vice versa. All of life’s impossible-to-answer-questions will be answered in oppositeland.
At the same time oppositeland can describe a less abstract story about the present and the future, where all natural life is left behind and everything is turned in mechanical and synthetic material.

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Oppositeland/dp/B00BO2X8Y8" target="_blank">Amazon</a>
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/oppositeland/id609896906" target="_blank">iTunes</a>
<a href="http://www.beatport.com/release/oppositeland/1077076" target="_blank">Beatport</a>
<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/products/phole-oppositeland/2152040-02/" target="_blank">Juno</a>
<a href="http://boomkat.com/downloads/671824-phole-oppositeland" target="_blank">Boomkat</a>
Spotify

Release Date: May 7th 2013
Genre: Electronica/Trip Hop/Jazz
CAT No: TSD416
Label: Three Sixty Records
Distributor: Orchard - Digital
Mastered by Graham Shrimpton

Track-listing:
1 The Beginning
2 Going In
3 Oppositeland
4 Catching Up
5 Vision
6 Carnivale
7 Reaching the End
8 Mechanism
9 About To Get Nuts
10 Open


Reaching The End

Download available here:  http://boilerroom.tv/recording/speedy-j/

Speedy J Boiler Room & Ballantine's Stay True Scotland Live Set

Download available here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/planetary-assault-systems/

Planetary Assault Systems Boiler Room & Ballantine's Stay True Scotland Live Set

Cut Hands, "Stabbers Conspiracy"

Bootleg track :   Jon Hassell "Amsterdam blue"    Ursula Rucker' ghost track  "Secrets"

ANALOGIC MASHUP, NO SOFTWARE USED

Jon Hassell & Ursula Rucker - Amsterdam blue secrets

Svengalisghost live at Mutual Dreaming's SEX TAGS MANIA party at 285 Kent -  June 2, 2012.
Live sets by: Svengalisghost (Chicago),  Ultradyne (Detroit)
DJ sets by: DJ Sotofett (Norway), Madteo (Queens)

http://youtu.be/oJAgI1avyrw

SVENGALISGHOST live at Mutual Dreaming

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Vatican Shadow - "Cairo is a Haunted City"

The Blind Cave Salamander

01 Athem

02 Mojave

03 Odd Sympathy

04 Pruitt Igoe (or version)

05 Or

09 Leavaila Scheme

10 Monsters

Kangding Ray . Pruitt Igoe
12’’ E.P.

Pruitt Igoe is a 4 track E.P on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited by Kangding Ray to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth.

The EP’s title Pruitt Igoe is taken from a gigantic social housing project, completed in 1955 in the U.S. City of St Louis, Missouri, and often regarded as a symbol of the modernist architecture failure. Designed according to the principles of modernism, and by the same architect who would later build the World Trade Center, the project saw a disastrous and violent decline after only a few years, plagued with vandalism and massive criminality, leading to its complete destruction from 1972 onwards. Footage of its demolition are visibly featured in the 1983 movie “Koyaanisqatsi”, scored by Phillip Glass.

Pruitt Igoe is more than a post-modern icon, it represents an ancestral movement of hope and disillusion, of perfectly planned models and evaporated dreams. It serves as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the feeling of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainity of eternal progress and endless economical growth. 

This movement is reflected by the two sides of the record: on the A side, the original track and its remodel by Alva Noto, both represent the planning and construction phase, based on a clear structure and a hypnotic loop of women chanting in the streets of a small town in North India. On the B-side, Ben Frost and Kangding Ray undertake the demolition process - slicing beats, destroying structures and emphasising the beauty of collapse.


A2 Pruitt Igoe ( Alva Noto remodel )

The tale of the mythic pentaki mountain has been engraved on a two-sided circular piece of wax.

the north face of the peak is steep, abrasive, and has been the subject of many legends in the region. it is said that whoever would manage to climb it would find a plateau, leading to a place called “the single source of truth”.

considered as the ultimate goal by both psychedelic gurus and database o
ptimization corporations, and as an ideal retirement destination for a couple of lost souls in search for coherence and objectivity, the source diffuses endless loops of haunted voices, apparently sampled from a discarded call center, running low on power, encouraging listeners to shorten cycles, deliver requests and improve user experience.

it is also said that anyone climbing from the south side would never reach the summit or find his way to the plateau, and would always end up on a lower altitude than where he started.

this topographical anomaly is probably the reason why the south face of the pentaki has always been favorited by locals, with its sunny weather and its luxurious vegetation flourishing along the soft downward slope, leading to a slow and peaceful end.

Kangding Ray . The Pentaki Slopes . 12" E.P
r-n 145 . raster-noton

A1 : North
A2 : Plateau ( a single source of truth )
B1 : South

North

Plateau ( a single source of truth )

South

Keep Me

Think Of You

https://fingersinthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-album-2xlp

Lost in the Freezing Fog

Pete Swanson - <i>Punk Authority</i>

Available March 12th, 2013. Pre-order:

http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/pete-swanson-punk-authority/

©2013 Software Recording Co.
www.softwarelabel.net

Pete Swanson - Life Ends at 30

Efterklang - Dreams Today (Brandt Brauer Frick Reinterpretation)

From the free mini-album Music For A Film. Download album here: http://bit.ly/KSVzg7
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From his early releases on the legendary german imprint raster-noton, to his more recent output aimed at the club, Kangding Ray managed to trace a singular trajectory, navigating the unexplored territories between experimental music and dance music.

Through his consistency as both Live performer and DJ, and a number of critically acclaimed releases, Kangding Ray showed his ability to keep a genuine artistic approach, while slowly crafting a unique universe, equally focused on emotional response and visceral impact.

Kangding Ray’s music tests boundaries, evolving constantly in its exploration of texture and rhythms, while talking equally to the body and the mind.
From his past as architect, Kangding Ray kept a multidisciplinary approach to art, applying his craft in diverse artistic fields such as visual arts, film scores, audiovisual installations and dance performances.