Electronica

From the album "Human" out now

iTunes:  www.smarturl.it/MCHuman
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/HumanBeatport
Vinyl + CD: http://bit.ly/FIELDSshop

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER 
 
"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Ace" - theQuietus

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"Recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" 
- XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja
  
"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ


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Empyrean (clip)

Taken from Max Cooper's debut album "Human," out now.

Digital: iTunes http://www.smarturl.it/MCHuman | Vinyl / CD http://bit.ly/FIELDSshop

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER 

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"Recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" 
- XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja
  
"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ


order on iTunes

Seething (clip)

Taken from Max Cooper's debut album "Human," out now.

iTunes www.smarturl.it/MCHuman
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/HumanBeatport
Vinyl / CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Freaky ... like Fuck Buttons on a tender hangover" - THUMP

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" - XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja

"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ

Numb feat. Kathrin deBoer - Album version (clip)

vestiges,
Featuring prayer: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
PHOTO: from the movie:" The holy mountain"_ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Holy mountain

Taken from "Human," out now.

iTunes www.smarturl.it/MCHuman / Beatport: smarturl.it/HumanBeatport
Vinyl + CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop

This track is the last one on my album, and it's supposed to be some sort of pleasant/easy closure after all of the hammering, and also the exit from the album as an awakening back to reality.

The track was originally designed around the idea of being asleep, and then being woken by rays of sun hitting your face. You can hear the sleepy filtered down melody to start, and then the sun rising and the rays coming through early on in the track, as a positive element from which the rest of the day and track are built around. 

I also used some binaural recordings from a market in Mexico City in this track, you can just about hear some people shouting and general human activity of the beginning of the day as the track develops.

The album is out now, I hope you can find some stuff in there that you like!

General album promo >

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Freaky ... like Fuck Buttons on a tender hangover" - THUMP

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" - XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja

"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ

Awakening (clip) from HUMAN album Out Now

white dog smoking

Taken from "Human" out now >

Digital: iTunes www.smarturl.it/MCHuman / Beatport http://btprt.dj/TC7WHJ
Vinyl / CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop

This was a fun track to make. I wanted to try and make something purely noisy and intense, but always delivering a feeling that 100 times more power was still fighting to get out, like the potency of human nature. After deciding on a basic chord structure, it was just a matter of layering and layering, which gave an interesting interference result, you can hear the different waves interacting to give beating patterns.

The layers were made from some Operators in Ableton with Guitar Rigs and Saturators, plus a Moog Minitaur with a fast LFO with high resonance, plus Andy Ramsay’s overdriven guitar amps and speakers re-recorded, plus Phil Kieran’s tape saturation/distortion - it’s basically a right mess! You can even hear some of the leftovers on Phil’s tape at the end, with him speeding it up and slowing it down. Interestingly, that Moog on there was the only analogue synthesiser used in the whole album, the rest was all sourced digitally, albeit with some subtle analogue compression and analogue mixing desk throughs at the end.


Some album press:

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"Recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" 
- XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja

"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ

Potency (clip) from HUMAN LP out now

'NOLAN' - taken from Ben Frost's forthcoming album A U R O R A, out 26/27 May 2014 on Mute / Bedroom Community. Pre-order A U R O R A here: iTunes -- smarturl.it/auroraiTunes
CD -- smarturl.it/auroraCD
Standard Vinyl -- smarturl.it/auroraLP
Coloured Limited Edition Vinyl Boomkat -- boomkat.com/vinyl/969946
Rough Trade -- www.roughtrade.com/albums/81853

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Ben Frost :: 'Nolan'

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Archie Pelago and Grenier combining talents can only mean one thing: super sumptuous dance music. 

The two acts, a Brooklyn trio and San Francisco producer, have previously released material on labels such as Mister Saturday Night Records and Tectonic respectively, soon set to unleash their collaborative project 'Grenier Meets Archie Pelago' on May 19. 

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Download: Archie Pelago & Grenier 'Navigator'

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

02 Mojave

03 Odd Sympathy

04 Pruitt Igoe (or version)

05 Or

07 Coracoid Process

08 En Amaryllis Jour

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

To preview the rest of the EP and links to digital downloads visit the RWAV site...

http://roomwav.com/site/2013/dave-aju-nowakowski-iron-galaxy-taron-trekka-presents-the-luck-of-my-curse/

“When Iron Galaxy made Attention Seeker, it was for one of the greatest tune and this one is no exception. An EP that is a must” - Tensnake (Running Back/ Defected/ Mirau Musik)

"Refining Fire is great" - Scuba (Hotflush)

"Holy shit all four of these are ace 5/5" - Marcus Intalex/Trevino (Soul:r/3024)

“Happy birthday RWAV! Refining Fire is great, 5/5” - Trevor Jackson

“Nice package... Refining Fire is great” - Tiefschwarz (Souvenir Music)

"Like the deep acid of The Iron Galaxy Track!" - Josh Wink (Ovum)

“Refining Fire is ace” - Ralph Lawson (2020 Vision)

“Great release. really digging Refining Fire” - Danny Daze (Ellum Audio, Hot Creations)

“Refining Fire is BEAUTIFUL!” - Deetron (Music Man)

“Always solid tunes from RWAV!! Refining Fire is fucking cool! 5/5” - Chopstick (Suol)

"Refining Fire is quality! Touch of the Todd Terje about it" - Greg Sawyer (Resident Advisor)

"Really interesting and varied stuff all around, and definitely all will be played for different types of dance floors but “Refining Fire” is the beautiful standout! Honorable mention goes to the deep and building “They Get Up.” - Bruce Tantrum (RA/ Time Out NY/ East Village Radio)

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