{"product_id":"kangding-ray-hyper-opal-mantis","title":"KANGDING RAY – HYPER OPAL MANTIS","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitle:\u003cspan\u003e Hyper Opal Mantis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eArtist:\u003cspan\u003e Kangding Ray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eLabel: Stroboscopic Artefacts\u003cbr\u003eGenre: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTechno\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatalog number:\u003cspan\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSALP005\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eFormat: 3x12\"\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Media: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNear Mint \/ Sleeve: Near Mint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe’re navigating a world of engineered pleasures, big data monitoring of movements and consumption habits, and falsely objective representations of reality, further blurred by a reduced attention span and several opaque layers of cultural interpretation and political manipulation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eManichean simplifications are used to create hate and fear in order to achieve domination and impose limits on freedom, and the irrational belief in endless growth, increasingly disconnected from nature, led to massive environmental destructions and waves of unprecedented extinctions of species.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur primal sensuous perception, vastly more abstract, emotional and sensual, make us feel the world as an ambiguous realm we are part of, but not in control of ; a complex network of interacting forces and enigmatic patterns, a matrix of overlapping desires. Rebuilding our bonds with nature, Reconnecting with our senses, and spreading love in the process becomes an essential act of resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHyper Opal Mantis is a triptych on 3 states of desire, and the first long player of Kangding Ray for Stroboscopic Artefacts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHYPER 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2598375223\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/otherfacts.bandcamp.com\/album\/hyper-opal-mantis-salp005-sacd008\"\u003eHyper Opal Mantis [SALP005 - SACD008] by Kangding Ray\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Second Hand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61439565562186,"sku":"1990","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/8187\/0154\/files\/cc_front_bc5f939f-a7a3-4635-b010-86de2348b9f9.jpg?v=1774536487","url":"https:\/\/chippychasers-recordstore.com\/products\/kangding-ray-hyper-opal-mantis","provider":"Chippy Chasers Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}