2 years after his critically acclaimed “Ultrachroma” album, Kangding Ray returns to ARA with a decisively dance-floor LP named “ZERO”.
As the artwork suggests, his different explorations and influences converge into one point on this record, where sound becomes a raw vibration, precisely engineered to bring bodies into movement.
This record marks both a return to the source of his sound in its purest shape, with hints of his debuts on the experimental label raster-noton, as well as the hypnotic journeys he is now known for with his DJsets.
As an artist who is constantly reshaping his own sound in search of new forms, Kangding Ray offers here a singular take on modern dance music, driven by a visceral and futuristic approach.

“When an audio signal crosses the X-axis, there is an infinitesimal moment of silence. ZERO is inspired by this quiet instant, a point of inversion where vibrations die and are reborn at the same time” . KR

ZERO

02 Supraverde

Atom TM - Ich Bin Meine Maschine (Function Remix)

STRGTHS RCNSTRCTNS

RSRRCTN (SHFTD RCNSTRCTN)

B1 Polar

B1 Phase Fatale - Neon Innocence ( Kangding Ray Remix )

03 SOLA

02 IPSO

01 IOTA

05 ETOS

04 TARO

With Multiply Your Absurdities, Helena Hauff delivers her long-awaited 12-inch debut on Tresor: a multi-colored inauguration, masterfully crafted by the inimitable Hamburg producer and DJ.

The title track Multiplying My Absurdities opens the record, with a slow burn of magnetic synths and numbing acid drops.
Through its simple yet thrilling dynamics, it occasionally falls into playful skepticism, creating something truly unique, uncompromised, and beautiful.

Punks in the Gym is named after an infamous climbing route in Australia. As its namesake, the track mercilessly rises to a techno summit.
It gets steeper and steeper with every bar, resembling a volcanic dance where 303 earthquakes shake the ground before eruptions. 
Once you're halfway in, there's no turning back; all you can do is keep moving forward. 

The closing track, Humanoid Fruit, transports to an even darker prehistoric landscape.
Synths bursts remind of fossilized Pterodactyls revived—a challenging but rewarding trip through acidic rain and the alleys of your mind. 

Originally released as the soundtrack for Teslaism by artist and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, a 3rd person musical racing game featuring Elon Musk and his self-driving car/lover and life coach, as they drive towards a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified Berlin landscape. It premiered at the "Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit" exhibition in 2022 and deals with stimulating skepticism about the emergence of a new era after Post-fordism that she calls Teslaism: "an upgrade to the system of production and consumption predicated on advanced storytelling, financial worldbuilding, and imagineering 'the look of the future.'" What has been once inspired by Helena Hauff's dystopian sound has now been made into an official music video for the track.

Much like the video, Multiply Your Absurdities represents a journey into futuristic uncertainty.

BANDCAMP

Helena Hauff - Punks In The Gym

MalaNoche unveils Defect Analysis by Divine Mechanic. Built on three original compositions - Light Matter, Nucleus, and Vacuum - the EP unfolds as a study of density, motion, and the subtle cracks within structure.

🛸Each piece finds a mirror in reinterpretation. Art.Ic fractures and reshapes Light Matter into sharp mechanical echoes, while PYLOT bends Nucleus into a gravitational pull of groovy-energy. Closing the cycle, Josefina Muñoz expands Vacuum into a higher resonance, unveiling a higher lever of rhythm.

🌑 Defect Analysis traces the fine line between precision and collapse, presenting sound as both mechanism and anomaly. Six works, originals and remixes, locked in dialogue - a blueprint for shadowed dancefloors.

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Divine Mechanic - Nucleus (PYLOT Remix)

Small Overview of the last few Months & some recycled sounds from way back :) 

What About Vibrations

Florian Meindl - 8bit Romance (Radio Slave Remix)

[a+w XIII] Codex Empire - Hamartia 12"

https://aufnahmeundwiedergabe.bigcartel.com/product/a-w-xiii-codex-empire-hamartia-12

limited edition of 500 copies

released May 12, 2017

Codex Empire

Codex Empire - Teize [a+w XIII]

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.

02 IPSO

Kangding Ray

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