KANGDING RAY . PRUITT IGOE . RN-124


Pruitt Igoe is available at
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listen on soundcloud : Pruitt Igoe by Kangding Ray


Pruitt Igoe is in the Wire Electronica charts of 2010
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Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones (Border Community)
J Biebz x Shamantis - U Smile 800% Slower (Soundcloud)
James Blake - Klavierwerke (R&S)
Frank Bretschneider - EXP (Raster-Noton)
Cluster - Qua (Klangbad)
Ekoplekz - Stalag Zero/Distended Dub (Punchdrunk)
Kangding Ray - Pruitt Igoe (Raster-Noton)
Lovesliescrushing - Crwth (Chorus Redux) (12k/Line)
Nest - Retold (Serein)
Philippe Petit - Off To Titan (Karl)
Raime - Raime EP (Blackest Ever Black)
Nicholas Szczepanik - Dear Dad (Basses Frequences)
T++ - Wireless (Honest Jon's)
David Tagg - Pentecost (Install)
Vex'd - Cloud Seed (Planet Mu)

Compiled by Sam Davies, Chris Sharp and David Stubbs


Pruitt Igoe is ranked #35 in the Boomkat top singles of 2010
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REVIEW ON BOOMKAT :
" Enhanced and incredibly produced bass music from the Raster Noton camp courtesy of Kangding Ray, reinforced with stunning remixes from Alva Noto and Ben Frost. With 'Pruitt Igoe' Kangding Ray augments his sound to Raster's current avant-techno agenda, logging onto the 'floor with the burly swing of 'Rise' and 'Fall', both echoing Dubstep's move into slower tempos and elevated groove technology like some uncompromising Teutonic cousin to Pinch's 'Croydon House' sound or a steel-plated Shackleton rhythm trip. Of course this is all in line with Raster's overriding agenda of intense, considered minimalism, striving to eke the optimised impact from every sound and eschewing the need for any unnecessarily conventional melody or harmony. On the remixes, Alva Noto continues a streak of rhythmically charged form, following remixes for Greie Gut Fraktion and Vladislav Delay with a colossal remodel of 'Rise', filtering the original's distorted field recordings of street singers from Uttar Pradesh into something like an inverted version of Ancient Methods' stentorian techno funk. Finally, Ben Frost returns Kangding Ray's programming favour on his 'By The Throat' album with a gripping refix of 'Fall', placing kicks like boulders strewn on arctic tundra while dynamically contorting the ghoulish synths into nightmarish figures looming from the inky blackness. As you can probably tell, this is pushing our buttons, hard. So good. "

boomkat

PRESS TEXT :
Pruitt Igoe is a 4 track E.P on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited by Kangding Ray to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth.The EPs title Pruitt Igoe is taken from a gigantic social housing project, completed in 1955 in the U.S. City of St Louis, Missouri, and often regarded as a symbol of the modernist architecture failure. Designed according to the principles of modernism, and by the same architect who would later build the World Trade Center, the project saw a disastrous and violent decline after only a few years, plagued with vandalism and massive criminality, leading to its complete destruction from 1972 onwards. Footage of its demolition are visibly featured in the 1983 movie Koyaanisqatsi, scored by Phillip Glass.Pruitt Igoe is more than a post-modern icon, it represents an ancestral movement of hope and disillusion, of perfectly planned models and evaporated dreams. It serves as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the feeling of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainity of eternal progress and endless economical growth.This movement is reflected by the two sides of the record: on the A side, the original track and its remodel by Alva Noto, both represent the planning and construction phase, based on a clear structure and a hypnotic loop of women chanting in the streets of a small town in North India. On the B-side, Ben Frost and Kangding Ray undertake the demolition process - slicing beats, destroying structures and emphasising the beauty of collapse.