dj stingray: kern vol 4

To feel the future is to feel the fall into time. For the fourth instalment in Tresor's Kern mix series, DJ Stingray (Urban Tribe/Drexciya) presents a device for decoding time in all directions, a sonic prism that refracts our senses into auxiliary components of a total future-rush. With a far-reaching selection that has been worked into his own unique form, DJ Stingray wraps the listener's vertigo around a gritty pneumatic bump with high-velocity swing. His mixing style, prepared for hostile engagements as it is, throttles techno into counter-gravity forces. Wading through a specialized cross-section of Detroit's own dancefloor contagions as well as the contaminated feedback signals from across the global aqua plains, the mix can be summed up in just one word: hectic. Raw, caustic, synthetic rhythm-code pumps frenzy itself through a cascading geothermal fog. Never giving away the cryptographic keys, DJ Stingray works you harder than your heart, adapting your biology to a fractal timeline of viscous systems. Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists actually or virtually; it is therefore certain to happen sooner or later with enough sweat in the club. And as Kern Vol. 4 attests to, DJ Stingray has the access codes and the stealth sense to make a place of a space, and to let it fall into time. CD version comes in a digipak sleeve and features: NRSB-11, Dynarec, Professor X, Herva, A-F-X, Gesloten Cirkel, Anna Meredith, LoneLady, Syncom Data, Dopplereffekt, Alex Cortex, Kris Wadsworth, Christopher Joseph, Silent Servant, Adam Jay, Luke Eargoggle, Drexciya, Creepy Autograph, Faceless Mind, Vcs2600, DJ Di'jital, Illektrolab, Morphology, and Kan3da.