Xmas 2013

Xmas 2013 (F2B)

brzp

Ding Dong Ray

electronic

MY FAVORITES

Kangding Ray . Pruitt Igoe

Kangding Ray

Drown (no meek mix)

Scout Niblett plays the ATP End Of An Era Part 1 festival in November. More info www.atpfestival.com

Scout Niblett - Gun

http://dotsanddashes.co.uk/blog/grand-theft-auto-v/

Flying Lotus – Stonecutters

Boiler Room Berlin Sigha B2b Shifted, Kangding Ray, Deadbeat ft. Tikiman, Headless Horseman, Positive Centre, Dj Flush

[Broadcasted March 12th 2014]

Tracklist & Video at Boilerroom.tv

Kangding Ray Boiler Room Berlin Live Show

Expressing a musical venture that draws from the combined roots of IDM, house and techno, Mind Against are the Italian native but Berlin based project of Alessandro and Federico Fognini. Heavily affiliated with DJ Tennis’ revered Life and Death camp, the duo embody a sound that they say is “difficult to describe”, instead referring any attempts to define their sonic identity to the psychedelic hooks of 1980s soundtracks and dancefloor antics of Milan’s imperative parties. Currently in the midst of a European tour, the duo are about to stop off at our Charterhouse corner for the very first time when they join DJ Tennis, Clockwork and our main man, Terry Francis in Room Two. But before the aforementioned event, both Alessandro and Federico have kindly taken a few moments out of their busy schedule to tell us what they’ve been up to over the past few and deliver a new and exclusive promo mix along the way...

Read the full interview here: http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/introducing-mind-against-and-their-fabric-promo-mix

Tickets and Info: http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/917

Mind Against x fabric Promo Mix

Said the white rabbit (tribute to Jan Švankmajer)

OUT NOW!

DIGITAL

iTunes: http://po.st/EXiTunes
Google Play: http://po.st/ExGoogleP
BoomKat: http://po.st/EXBoomKat
Beatport: http://po.st/EXBeatport 
Spotify: http://po.st/EXspotify

Stream the entire album on YouTube (http://po.st/EXStream) & Vimeo: (http://vimeo.com/97723029)

PHYSICAL

Vinyl, CD, and a limited edition SubPac bundle on July 14th (11th DE, 15th USA). 

Pre-order the physical version from Bleep and get the download today: http://po.st/EXBleep

Limited SubPac Edition: http://bit.ly/1pfllUF

Video trailer: 
http://youtu.be/fsq4DJHulcI 
http://vimeo.com/97308552

EX by Plastikman 

Plastikman, aka @RichieHawtin, recorded EX at the Guggenheim, New York’s iconic art museum. This very special performance was at the invitation of influential Belgium fashion designer and artistic director at Dior, Raf Simons, for the Guggenheim’s annual fundraiser, performed around a specially constructed LED obelisk.

Richie Hawtin explains, “I knew that Raf was a long time Plastikman fan so by accepting his offer to perform at the Dior event at the Guggenheim I knew I’d set myself up to a huge challenge. Although Raf was happy to have the already complete Plastikman Live 1.5 show, I locked myself away in a series of intense studio sessions and quickly recorded enough new material for the performance and realized I might also have enough for a complete new album. The music came out of me effortlessly as I was very inspired by the opportunity to play in this beautiful architectural space renowned more for art than music. The location also allowed me to step far away from the dancefloor, giving me a huge amount of freedom to EXplore any sonic ideas that I had. Art, music, architecture, painting, sculpture – these mediums are supposed to live together.”

TRACKLISTING

EXposed 
EXtend 
EXpand 
EXtrude 
EXplore 
EXpire 
EXhale

CONNECT

www.plastikman.com
www.facebook.com/PlastikmanOfficial
www.twitter.com/PlastikmanLive

Buy on iTunes!

Plastikman - EX (Preview)

CST033:Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Horses In The Sky (2005) TRACK 02

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • Mountains Made Of Steam

Die Wand

Diamond Version (alva noto & Byetone) "Mode Operator Beispiel A" (MONKEYTOWN027)

Created for the XFM radio DJ Shadow special 20/09/12 - the main 23 minute mix using tracks, remixes, productions for others and the odd sample from Shadow's career to date. I took the lesser-known compilation track 'Flashback' as a theme to rapidly look back through his back catalogue.

Tracklist:
What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2) 
Dark Days (Main Theme) 
Celestial Annihilation 
Closer (DJ Fresh vs DJ Shadow) 
Right Thing (Z-Trip 'Get The Party Off' mix) 
Monosylabik 
Redeemed 
Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain 
What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) 
What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2) 
In/Flux 
Main Title Theme 
Rabbit In Your Headlights feat. Thom Yorke 
Doin' Damage (Shadow's Legitimate mix) 
What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) 
Midnight... (from Stem/Long Stem/Transmissin 2) 
Skullfuckery feat. The Heliocentrics 
Midnight In A Perfect World (Extended Vision)  
Grand Ol' Party Crash (Instr.)  
Mashin' On The Motorway 
Six Days feat. Mos Def (Remix) / Walkie Talkie  
I've Been Trying  
Changeling 
Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop 
Enuff feat. Gift Of Gab (DJ Fresh mix) 
I Gotta Rokk 
Border Crossing 
Flashback 
I Feel A New Shadow 
Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt  
I Gotta Rokk 
Intropy 
Mutual Slump [Alternate Take Without Overdubs] 
The Number Song (Cut Chemist remix re-edit from 'The Litmus Test') 
March of Death 
Mongrel Meets His Maker (Dub Version) 
San Francisco 
Freeze (Cut 1) 
Duality (Shadow section) 
Guns Blazing (Drums Of Death Pt.1 - intro/instrumental) 
Rhymes For The Deaf, Dumb & Blind 
Untitled ('This Time' original) 
Lost And Found (S.F.L.) 
Roy's Theme (Ext. version) 
Meiso (DJ Shadow Klub mix Instrumental) 
Closer (DJ Fresh vs DJ Shadow) 
The Knock (Drums Of Death Pt.2) 
Duality (6/8 section) 
Dark Days (Main Theme) 
Kamikaze 108 (Remix) 
Giving Up The Ghost
Purple Grapes feat. The Team 
Stem/Long Stem 
100 Meter Dash 
Circular Logic (Front To Back) 
You Can't Go Home Again 
Doin' Damage (Shadow's Legitimate mix) 
Organ Donor (Original / Ext. Overhaul) 
Tears 
Let's Get It (Bass Bass Bass) 
Flashback

DJ Food - 'Flashback Megamix' (DJ Shadow Mx2)

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

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.


A1 Pruitt Igoe - part 1 (rise)

A2 Pruitt Igoe ( Alva Noto remodel )

B1 Pruitt Igoe - part 2 (fall)

B2 Pruitt Igoe ( Ben Frost mix )

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

Boiler Room Berlin 019: CTM Festival/ Alec Empire, Pole, Kangding Ray, Miles Whittaker & Pharoah Chromium

[Broadcasted on 24th January 2013]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Kangding Ray LIVE in the Boiler Room

Oval - Dok - 01 - Lens-Flared Capital

Oval - Dok - 02 - Polygon Medpack 2.0

artist : Smany
title : komoriuta

Remixer : no.9 / trorez / Notuv / Madegg / fullkawa head.Q.music / Go-qualia
Hair Direction : Soichiro Uchida (vetica)
Photo : Ryuzo
Make-up : Akiko Fukue
Design : Tomoyuki Arima (TATSDESIGN)
Web : tatsuhico (ALTEMA Records)
Mastering & mix : Pakchee (Hz-records)

Kurai Kurai

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.