Afgelopen week stond Rotterdam in het teken van het Dutch Electronic Art Festival , en terwijl de tentoonstellingen nog even doorgaan, zijn wij weer overeind gekrabbeld na een fantastische vrijdagavond. Samen met DEAF en REWIRE stond Eclectro garant voor een avond vol spannende elektronica. We blikken terug op de artiesten die de grootste indruk maakten, en dat alles onder het genot van de set die onze eigen Eclectro DJ's draaiden. Torus Met een hipster-verantwoorde muts en een klein batterij apparatuur bijt Torus het spits af van [...]
Van woensdag 16 tot zondag 20 Mei vindt het Dutch Electronic Arts Festival plaats in Rotterdam. In het kader van dit festival organiseren DEAF en het Haagse festival REWIRE samen een avondvullend muziekprogramma in WORM Rotterdam , en wel op vrijdag 18 Mei. Onder de noemer DEAF & REWIRE: Club Night wordt een clubprogramma gepresenteerd waar abstracte beats en stevige bassen centraal staan. Dit levert een futuristische cocktail op van glitch, ambient en post-dubstep. Planet Mu artiesten Kuedo en Ital Tek vormen samen met Kangding Ray (Raster-Noton) de spil van het programma. Nederlands talent als Torus, Filosofische Stilte en Mr Lowman maken de line-up af. En [...]
Idioteque - Radiohead @ HP Pavilion, San Jose, 2012-April-11. The incredible lighting as seen in the picture above is by Andi Watson ( interview ) who has been doing Radiohead's lighting/stage design since almost the beginning of when the band first started touring nationally. Thank you W.A.S.T.E. for the incredible seats. One of the best Radiohead shows I have ever seen, and that's mainly because of the lighting. ( More pictures: Flickr ) If you could travel back in time which at the rate of technological advancement (see: Technological [...]
When it comes to the progressive ingenuity of yesteryear few records could even conceive of doing battle with Gloss Drop : an explorational work of avant-garde invention, it saw the streamlined New York outfit punch well above their weight. It is and was their opus, and it remains revolutionary. This time however, although it may again be Battles' name on Dross Glop (the droll epithet attached to this collection of radical overhauls) and even if their madcap freeform fingerprints may be smeared indelibly all over it they've handed the gloves over to [...]
El 20 de marzo sale el tercer Dross Glop de Battles (la serie de EPs con remixes de las canciones en su último disco, Gloss Drop ) y, por si no se habían emocionado con las versiones de Kode9 o la de Shabazz Palaces , déjenme advertirles que esta de Kangding Ray es una ganadora al 100 por ciento. Incluidos también en este Dross Glop están canciones de Silent Servant y Qluster, pero sinceramente la versión de " Toddler [...]
Enjoy his take on 'Toddler' below. Watch 'My Machines' here. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Battles - Tonto (Four Tet Mix)
You should have seen the deliberation room after we finished the lists. Papers scattered across the floor, blood and coffee stains on the carpet, I think at one point Kenny threw his laptop at Stuart (it just barely missed). But it makes sense, because each one of us are so passionate about the music we loved this year. So, check out what music meant most to each of our wonderful writers- Also, be sure to check out our top songs of the year (100-51 / 50-1 ) and top albums of the year [...]
The best albums are much more than a collection of stand out songs. Like anything successful, a great album finds multiple parts coming together as one; accomplishing moods, textures, and developments not possible by any one singular piece. The best albums force you to take a step back, to not only look at each moment but to examine how that moment fits into a larger picture. Perhaps most important, the best albums are constantly evolving begging for repeated listens to show you all of their ins and out. Check out the 50 albums that kept us coming [...]
David Letellier aka Kangding Ray - VERSUS (by kangding ray ) Versus is a sound installation consisting of two kinetic sculptures placed face to face. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, hinged and powered by six linear actuators, controlled by a specific program. At regular intervals, each sculpture produces a sound, simultaneously recorded and analyzed by the opposite, which then moves according to the frequencies of this sound. Like a feedback loop, it then plays back the recorded sound, with the errors and disturbances caused [...]
Kangding Ray's beats veer away from hardcore-Berghain, four-to-the-floor pummeling, but remain distinctly techno, danceable and even possibly futuristic. The beats roll smoothly out of the speakers and somehow weave in distorted melodramatic chord changes that Tiesto would swoon over if he could detect their subtlety. Released on the experimental electronica label of choice Raster Noton, the sound design is impeccable- perhaps to the point of sounding a little too perfect. Whatever its merits, OR's beauty will not be found through its imperfections or accidents. Whilst maintaining some of his previous album Automne Fold's more populist and accessible melodic [...]
Tu espérais une playlist d'été ? Tu es bien mal tombé car Get The Curse te livre ici l'exact opposé. En effet, une bonne partie de cette sélection touche à la frange la plus expérimentale de la techno. Celle qui n'a que faire des mélodies, des nappes rêveuses ou des beats dansants et se concentre [...]
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New video for the title track from Kangding Ray's "OR." The Germany-based electronica artist's latest album of the same title is out now, but not in America. It's currently on raster-noton , but there's always digital if the import prices are killing you. Anyway, the tracks on OR feel light, but they groove hard. Let's say they're punching above their weight. Considering how understated the music is, this guy packs a lot of different sounds and subtleties into his tracks. If you dug on this one, try another track from the LP right [...]
It was always going to be an interesting collaboration, not simply because of the multi-disciplinary and multi-national backgrounds of the artists involved in this second installment of INSITU , but also the context of the subject of their work - Fort Canning Hill in Singapore. Known as the Forbidden Hill in pre-colonial times because of its believed designation as the burial site of Malay royalty, the Hill was subseqeuntly appropriated by the British as Government Hill and later fortified and named after the Governor General of India. No longer a fort today, the hill nonetheless remains a site bearing [...]
German electronica producer Kangding Ray dropped his third LP back in May, OR . But of course, it hasn't caught a ton of buzz in the U.S., because the only label its been released on is a German one . Still, the ambient beatscapes painted on OR are a great listen. The evolving beat on "Leavalia Scheme" is backed with a wall of light distortion. It's a pocket of quiet bliss in a world that grows louder every day.
Raster Norton has a long tradition of picking out the best in minimalist electronics. Most of their catalog files largely into the headphone meditation category and swims through binary to a palette of grey, black and white, so its always with some surprise that R-N producer David Letellier peppers so much color amongst the massive bass valleys that inhabit his Kangding Ray project. Vocals and guitars find their way through the blips, twisted by a minimalist mind and dilated by the cavernous force of bass usually reserved for dubstep. The album attempts to come to terms with disillusionment in a [...]
Kangding Ray 's Or - good enough to be 2011's best Techno, Bass, IDM, and Electronica album - all in one! Certainly on first hearing there's been little to rival it for sheer viscerality and fluidity of beats and bass motion, combined with textural detail and veiled harmonics; Frenchman David Letellier (mais oui!) beats the Germans at their own Spiel – not just outdoing kindred Raster-Notables like Alva Noto , Frank Bretschneider , and Byetone , but lauding it over fellow-stretchers of boundaries between aforementioned electronic sub-genres like [...]
Kangding Ray (David Letellier) is inmiddels een bekende naam op het gebied van experimentele electronica. De Fransman uit Berlijn knutselt met combinaties van digitaal en analoog geluid: koude beats en glitches maar ook gitaren, violen en vocalen. Zijn producties passen prima bij het sombere minimalisme van raster-noton , maar voelen in de kern warmer en emotioneler dan gewoonlijk is voor het label. Letellier's vorige en alom geprezen album Automne Fold is hiervan het meest duidelijke voorbeeld, vol verassende geluidsexperimenten en ingetogen melodieën. Letellier's nieuwe langspeler OR [...]
This Saturday, Berlin-based sound artist Kangding Ray will present his response to Fort Canning Hill in Singapore. Traditionally a forbidden burial site for Malay royalty and colonially the vantage residence of British governors, the hill now becomes the compositional subject for the second installment of INSITU , a project that brings multi-disciplinary artists to selected sites in Asia to create original works mapping out their physical encounter with the space/place. Simple idea with intriguing possibilities, arguably a logical progression from Kangding Ray's previous work. In 20102s Pruitt Igoe single, the myth surrounding [...]
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get the curse
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