Listen to ‘Epsilon’, off Kangding Ray’s upcoming album ‘Hyper Opal Mantis’

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‘Hyper Opal Mantis’ is a triptych on 3 states of desire, and Kangding Ray’s first album for Stroboscopic Artefacts. HYPER is the primal, sensual lust, OPAL is the emotional catharsis, a blissful desire for love. MANTIS, like the insect it refers to, is the destructive, fatal attraction.

The tension between the natural and artificial, the body and mind, are central themes in electronic music in general, and Techno in particular, as the means of creation, focused around technology and interactions with machines, contrast with the emotional response to sound, the mystical ritual of collective dancing, and the ethos of liberation and tolerance embedded in the culture it produced.

We’re navigating a world of engineered pleasures, big data monitoring of movements and consumption habits, and falsely objective representations of reality, further blurred by a reduced attention span and several opaque layers of cultural interpretation and political manipulation.

Kanding Ray’s ‘Hyper Opal Mantis’ is out February 27 on Stroboscopic Artefacts. You can can listen to ‘Epsilon’ below;

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