Video: Kangding Ray - Or

While Kangding Ray's previous album, Automne Fold , showed Frenchman David Letellier branching out into dark soul and trip-hop along with his standard glitch, OR is an exercise in almost robotic consistency. While Kangding Ray's previous album, Automne Fold, showed Frenchman David Letellier branching out into dark soul and trip-hop along with his standard glitch (and beating Massive Attack at its own game in the 21st century), OR is an exercise in almost robotic consistency. Although he has changed tactics, his music remains just as sexy and powerful as any Raster-Noton release you could name. A [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]