Raster-noton - Part 1

This Is Kangding Ray

KANGDING RAY
STABIL

raster-noton has established a core group of artists, many of which were undiscovered talents. in this tradition the new release is no exception.

kangding ray aka david letellier arrives at raster-noton artist collective with his first album »stabil«. born in france and based in berlin, letellier evolved as a guitarist and drummer in various bands whose influences ranged from rock and pop to jazz before moving into electronic music. »stabil« is a reflection of letellier's background as it integrates guitar loops, bass lines, residual noise, acoustic instruments and digital anomalies to create a textured soundscape. as the label is looking into new directions, kangding rays' debut makes its mark as an interesting attempt to find a balance between the flow of melodies and the ever changing structure of rhythm.

STABIL . 2006 . raster-noton . r-n073

Glitch / Noise

Selected Works 06-10 available at 
https://mrtidykid.bandcamp.com/album/selected-works-06-10

Selected Tracks 06-10

Vinyl

Pretty Girl

HYPER OPAL MANTIS . Forthcoming on Stroboscopic Artefacts
Release early 2017 

Triptych : 3x 12”
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# 12 “ HYPER 

A1 : RUBI
B1 : LONE PYRAMIDS
B2 : EPSILON

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#12” OPAL

C1 : PURPLE PHASE
C2 : DUNE
D1 : SOUL SURFING
D2 : OUTREMER

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12” MANTIS

E1 : ONDE MANTIS
E2 : SAUDADE
F1 : LANIAKEA

HYPER OPAL MANTIS (MASTER)

PURPLE PHASE

Laws of Nature

Buy ltd. LP/Digital

Kafuka 'Mustang' on BBC Radio 3 (Laws of Nature - Project: Mooncircle, 2017)

Stabil

Interrompu Court

Sub.Res

Visible

Cyan

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 ».

01 Athem

New Barker [@Voltek] 12” out Friday, June 28. Vinyl only, hand-stamped, peaktime optimised.
New Barker album, ‘Utility’, out late summer on double-vinyl, digital formats, CD and LTD edition.

BARKER001

Neuron Collider

Buy 12"

Barker | Neuron Collider

Cannibal Homecoming is the first single from 'Kiri Variations', the new album by Clark.

Buy the album here: https://ClarkMusic.lnk.to/KiriVariations

"The track is like Japanese cuisine- it explores lots of textures but coheres as a song er..."meal". A song is finished when you get the sense it's being pulled along to an inevitable conclusion. It’s not literally about cannibals. It’s about paradox, despair, broken families, the fictional boundaries we cling to and the self destructive cognitive dissonance we suffer because of this.

Ooh listen to how naked and vulnerable I sound at the end! I like the synth arp that counters that. It’s like a shield. I’ve been gently poking fun at terrible preset Hollywood risers but doing them with my own customised sounds-the idea of a riser is amazing, it’s kind of timeless. The mounting of tension and release. It's been around since the Greeks.

But the palette needs to be unique, personal. I’m coming at it from quite a militantly purist angle. Some of the field recordings in those risers are over 20 years old, from dictaphone tapes I didn’t even know I had. All this texture needs to be married to a good' ol visceral composition though. This fusion of those two aspects of music is the ideal. Each one helping the other one out in mutual song craft welfare. You can't be a libertarian about this stuff." - Chris

Kiri Variations

Cannibal Homecoming

Crooked beats and live machine experiments from audio-visual live bass crew Up High Collective. 

Read more + tracklist: https://hyponik.com/mixes/hyp-399-up-high-collective/

@uphighcollective

Hyp 399: Up High Collective

AURORA alva noto - ryuichi sakamoto

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Berlin ( D.S.edit 121221 )

Credits :
Cover design by nibo
mastered by - bo kondren
all tracks written and produced by david letellier
Tracks 5 & 7 contain keyboard samples
by Vincent Feuillet.

© 2006 Raster-Noton.
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Nn-Peaks

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.