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Kangding Ray

10 listings in 2 named rooms, over the last three years · Berlin · 11,529 following on RA

also plays Berlin — 12 nights

Kangding Ray’s complex sound aesthetic tests boundaries, evolving tirelessly in its exploration of texture, rhythm, and sound design.

KR has remixed artists such as Martin Gore and Ben Frost on Mute, Battles on Warp, Oscar Mulero on Polegroup or Inigo Kennedy on Token.

Letellier’s foundations in rock and musique concrete give his music a vitality and uniqueness that has won fans the world over, from discerning avant-garde–electronica listeners, all the way to devoted clubbers.

Those who have been following Letellier since his debut album, 2006’s Stabil, will recognize not only his meticulous and constantly developing approach to sound design, but also the conceptual gravity behind his releases. Through a string of recent EP’s and albums, culminating with the critically acclaimed “Solens Arc”, KR showed his ability to keep his artistic approach while delivering direct and powerful club-leaning tracks and darkly cinematic soundscapes. On 2015’s “Cory Arcane”, he pushed the limits of his sound even further. Relinquishing standard rhythmic structures and conventional tonal models, he delivered what is perhaps his most sophisticated release yet; a raw and visceral universe, allowing a more fluid dialogue between soul and machines.

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2017’s “HYPER OPAL MANTIS” released on Stroboscopic Artefacts heralds a new era for Kangding Ray, where he explores the tension between the natural and artificial, the body and mind, which are central themes in electronic music in general, and Techno in particular. 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 has produced.

As he describes it himself in a recent interview : “I’ve been evolving since a couple of years at the outer fringes of the club culture, where it overlaps with different experimental and avant-garde genres. While i intend to continue to explore that zone as a free maverick, i also wanted to give something back to the scene, something strong, beautiful and functional at the same time, while retaining enough personality to be exciting.”

( Adapted from words by Vincent Morris)

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Records out on Mute Records, Warp Records, Raster-Noton, Token, Stroboscopic Artefacts, PoleGroup Recordings, Violet Poison, Modal Analysis, In Paradisum and Houndstooth. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

2026

2025 — 2 nights
2024 — 4 nights
2023 — 1 night

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027

Five of the 10 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

  • Ne/Re/Aan unnamed room ×3, and 2 more rooms · Oct 2023 – May 20265 nights
  • Clarisa Kimskiian unnamed room ×2, BASEMENT ×1 · Oct 2023 – Aug 20243 nights
  • Amotikan unnamed room ×2 · Jul 2025 – May 20262 nights
  • The Carry Nationan unnamed room ×1, BASEMENT ×1 · Mar 2024 – May 20262 nights
  • ÆONan unnamed room ×1, BASEMENT ×1 · Mar 2024 – Aug 20242 nights

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