Published:
December 6, 2016
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.
Hyper Opal Mantis is a triptych on 3 states of desire, and the first long player of Kangding Ray 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.
Track list:
HYPER
A1 / 1. RUBI
B1 / 2. LONE PYRAMIDS
B2 / 3. EPSILON
OPAL
C1 / 4. PURPLE PHASE
C2 / 5. DUNE
D1 / 6. SOUL SURFING
D2 / 7. OUTREMER
MANTIS
E1 / 8. ONDE MANTIS
E2 / 9. SAUDADE
F1 / 10. LANIAKEA