Kangding Ray
Techno meets pop, hip-hop and early influences in a tightly layered selection, where reworked tracks and shifting percussion draw connections across music made for very different listening spaces.

Techno meets pop, hip-hop and early influences in a tightly layered selection, where reworked tracks and shifting percussion draw connections across music made for very different listening spaces.
An intimate early-morning selection draws on food, desire and mysticism, moving patiently from film music and fragile electronics into ritual rhythms, psychedelia and the darker edges of memory.
Personal landmarks from jazz, blues and heavy guitars meet dub and contemporary electronics, with unreleased loops threaded through a radio-like sequence shaped by contrasting moods and memories.
Early electronic composition, vocal experiments and abrasive microsound converge in a patient collage, where tense textures and fragments of field recordings unfold as one sustained, shifting work.
Pioneering electronics and contemporary experiments are reworked in real time, forming a dense collage of cinematic atmospheres, unstable textures and melodies that connect distant musical eras.
Dub, film scores, jazz and expressive voices reveal a private listening world, tracing the space between notes through formative influences and discoveries that reach beyond dark ambient.
Funk, dub and early electronics meet in an intuitive selection of personal favourites, where fluid rhythms and vintage samples reveal unexpected connections across decades of recorded sound.
A restless collage brings electronic pioneers into conversation with rock, reggae and unreleased performances, reshaping familiar records through sampled fragments, effects and unexpected collisions.
Fifteen reissues that brought overlooked recordings and timeless works back into focus.
On the verge of beauty and harshness - 30 most memorable sonic journeys of 2013.
A century of sonic experiments unfolds through dub, ambient and fractured rhythm, transformed by an analogue feedback system into a layered passage between formless sound and physical momentum.
Bryan Levine on the artists, independent work and changing audience of Kill Shaman Records. The original 2013 interview accompanies a twenty-track selection.