Kangding Ray's night was the night we witnessed thought transform into impulses, and impulses into moving flesh, inside a calculating machine, amid billions of pieces of information and swarming nanomachines all around us.
Among the jagged, raw sculptures of the Museo Marini, amid its structures poised between modernity and classicism, an industrial, technological staging moved organically toward the audience that had gathered a few hours earlier for the Alpin Folks live set.
The show they're about to see will be quite different from the experimental ambient techno formula, straddling '60s echoes and mountain panoramas, that the Florentine duo has become such a distinguished champion of.
The rhythms of Kangding Ray, stage name of David Letellier, move along anomalous brainwaves, deconstructing rhythm into dark, sci-fi atmospheres, before digging into the grease of mathematical gears.
It's a techno that starts from the cyberpunk atmospheres dear to Black Rain and the prog/sci-fi of the latest Umberto, before overturning everything in a stream-of-consciousness of neurolinguistic reprogramming.
The movement is in constant balance on a chaotic, lysergic geometry, continually colliding in an empty space, seeking converts to contaminate.
David Letellier keeps his head down for almost the entire set, focused on his jagged tangle of rhythms. A solid, functional formula, an endless series of sonic particles in apparent architectural chaos that encompasses the whole museum, before slipping into muscle tissue and setting it moving in a mechanical-industrial dance.
The process of mental conversion proceeds relentlessly throughout the live set, an uncontrollable, hard-to-summarize series of electric impulses that managed to distill, in their sheer essentiality, all the violence and sexual energy of a tribalism teleported into an abstract future.
A cold show, perfect in its crystalline, percussive form, a small jewel of geometric sound.
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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by OndaRock Staff, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.
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