Ding Dong Ray

electronic

Higher Consciousness

Kangding Ray

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Desert Dwellers consists of Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe; together they are one of the most pioneering and prolific downtempo artists hailing from the United States, having released over a dozen full length albums, several DD remixed albums, as well as countless singles, EPs and remixes for labels like Black Swan, Twisted, Six Degrees, Iboga and their own label Desert Trax, to name a few. After the huge success of the “DownTemple Dub” series, and blowing up the past three years at some of the most prominent international music festivals including Lightning In A Bottle, Symbiosis, Wanderlust, Shambhala, Eclipse Festival Australia, Envision, Beloved, Sonic Bloom, and Earthdance, Desert Dwellers have just finished a 7 week tour across the United States opening for world renowned Twisted Records artist Shpongle, and are gearing up for a very big festival season in 2014 including Boom (Portugal), Atmosphere (Israel), Coachella, and countless others across North America.

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thanks to our friend Alx Latham at Parabuilding for recording and documenting another great moment in time at Cervantes in Denver!

DD MUSIC

DD Live at Cervantes 2013

Mystral - World Without Limits

Giving Me Life

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 ».

09 Leavaila Scheme

10 Monsters

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

AUTOMNE FOLD
2008 . RASTER-NOTON

R-N 094 . TRACK LIST :

01. konstruktiv . 1:44
02. automne fold . 4:51
03. downshifters . 2:40
04. the distance . 4:26
05. a protest song . 3:56
06. apnée . 2:27
07. idle . 5:13
08. quarante . 3:40
09. altiz . 5:48
10. parallel . 2:06
11. world within words . 4:50
12. époque . 3:57
13. apnée . part II . 3:09
14. palisades . 5:42

CREDITS

All tracks written and produced by
Kangding Ray / David Letellier

Vocals on a protest song and quarante by Lene Toje
Words on apnée taken from "the man, the hospital and the helicopter"
written and spoken by Andrew Cannon

Additional musicians :

Olaf Casimir ( contrabass on palisades )
Vincent Feuillet ( detuned piano on downshifters and the distance )
Loïc Lebouteiller ( bowed guitar on apnée )
Judith Stichtenoth ( violins on parallel and quarante )
All other instruments and vocals by KR

Produced in Berlin and Paris in 2007
Artwork by KR

Additional studio recordings at Southstar Recorder (Berlin )
Steim ( Amsterdam ) and RML ( San Francisco )

Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx, Berlin

©2008 . raster-noton . r-n 094 

Apnée . Part II

Eloquent Expansion

Buddha Bass - Metamorphosis (Kaminanda Remix)

BUDDHA BASS (aka Soulfood & DJ Free) collaborates with Kaminanda, Desert Dwellers, Kalya Scintilla, Pumpkin, Govinda, Dela Moontribe & Brian Seed, Mutiny & Sinoeh, Sattva Ananda, Variant Field, Quade & Bartek. Buddha Bass is an award winning producer & composer who has 27 independent, 2 major label releases and has scored music for IMAX, Disney, PBS and National Geographic. Our music combines acoustic instrumentation, global grooves and transglobal electronica. We love to collaborate with musicians, DJs and producers from around the world & a variety of musical genres. 

Buddha Bass - Metamorphosis (Kaminanda Remix)

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.