Kangding Ray - Or

possibly will be released in april this year.

Video with title-track:

Cant wait for this...the last EP was really really good.

Oh yes.

Awesome. I hope there are no vocals though. That was the only thing I didn't like about Automne Fold.

Any news about this release? This track and the last EP is ok, but I would really have more of the minimalistic sound on his debut album.

tracklist

01. athem (05:06)

02. mojave (04:16)

03. odd sympathy (06:23)

04. pruitt igoe (or version) (04:04)

05. or (05:54)

06. mirrors (02:46)

07. coracoid process (05:29)

08. en amaryllis jour (05:02)

09. leavaila scheme (05:42)

10. monsters (02:27)

11. la belle (06:25)

  Quote

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 »..

samples?

Kangding Ray . OR . rn123 . preview

These preview samples sound really fantastic, kinda like Monolake with a little bit of soul. Seems like he dropped guitar and vocals samples in favour of more electronic sounding tracks, which is a fine change I suppose.

It's nice to see something on Raster-Noton once in a while that resembles good old fashioned music. It could be first thing worth purchasing from them since Mimikry.

I missed Kangding Ray's AV performance at Montreal last Friday... FUUUUUUU!

Preordered

Thanks for posting the samples. After listening to those, I think I'm actually more excited about this release than the Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto...

Is it too much to hope that the slipcase will have metallic gold blocking do you think? :)

  On 5/9/2011 at 4:09 PM, Jamesqdot said:

Thanks for posting the samples. After listening to those, I think I'm actually more excited about this release than the Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto...

 

Is it too much to hope that the slipcase will have metallic gold blocking do you think? :)

Apparently not too much at all. :)

https://shop.raster-noton.net/?pid=231

The samples sound ultra tight. Will be getting this.

This is supposedly releasing today, ie 20 may.

  On 5/19/2011 at 7:43 PM, encym said:

The samples sound ultra tight.

Hell yeah!

With the new albums by Cyclo., Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto and now Kangding Ray, I have never been so excited by Raster-Noton.

LEAKED

  On 5/24/2011 at 4:37 AM, Tauhid said:

LEAKED

ORDERED

Waiting for releases to hit American distributors is the bane of my existence.

Wow, this album is so mindblowing and detailed! The only problem I notice in my first listen so far is the similarity of the tracks.

I'm currently re-listening to Or and I must say this album is so solid that I suddenly have the urge the purchase it. The cheapest distributor that could ship it here is Boomkat for £14.50, sadly. :c

I feel like this album would have been ideal as the score for Terminator 2 or maybe Perfect Dark.

Also, it's the only music I've heard that calls to mind Pro Radii. If anyone knows of other similar stuff, I'd like to hear it.

I was blown away at first but after 20 listenings this album gets quite old. And the deep house vocals annoy the hell out of me.

  On 6/26/2011 at 1:03 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

I was blown away at first but after 20 listenings this album gets quite old. And the deep house vocals annoy the hell out of me.

I agree with this. sharp as a tack but boring as hell