Tresor Records proudly presents their next release ‘INDUSTRY 4.0‘ EP by DJ Stingray 313. The EP is a sonic exploration into modern manufacturing concepts and the impact on humanity.
Moods and titles across the EP cover artificial intelligence (LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL), the internet, and robotics (MULTI FUNCTIONAL ROBOTICS and SENSOR DATA) – all set to his signature high-energy, industrial, cyborg-style productions. Pre order Vinyl: Bandcamp
‘LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL’ single is out today, giving a preview of the EP out September 20th.
Together, the tracks on INDUSTRY 4.0 work as a striking and current introspective of humanity’s uncertain evolution, moving as fast as the technology it creates.
Sherard Ingram is a menacing node in the vast tangle of electronic music’s history, present, and future. As DJ Stingray he propagates a seer-like, totalising concept of what it is to be engaged in thinking ahead by making people move.
A Detroit native, Ingram is an established figure in electro and techno from its earliest days. His Urban Tribe project is testament to this. First appearing on the genre-defining 1991 compilation ‘Equinox,’ Urban Tribe has come to call Anthony Shakir, Carl Craig, and Kenny Dixon Jr. members of the group. Though perhaps what has thus far come to be Ingram’s most finely calibrated and entirely natural manoeuvre was under the wing of Drexciya’s James Stinson. Performing with Drexciya’s live unit, Ingram took the ‘Drexciyan DJ Stingray’ identity and conjured a torrential storm from the DJ booth. His aqua-genetic code persists in the form of NRSB-11, his ongoing collaboration with the other half of Drexciya, Gerald Donald.
The caustic, neuro-shock brand of apex electro that Ingram exhilaratingly pushes in every corner of the world isn’t contained by this past. There’s a motivating edge that’s founded in his formative years, but it’s one that only keeps the next page blank, with little clue of which way the swing will drill across the spectrum, gathering pace sufficient to redistribute definitions and test the limits of those being made to move.
With his recent releases coming from an enviable smattering of crucial labels both genre-centric and experimental, Ingram is overhauling the very premise of the Detroit legacy he had a hand in writing, and on which others comfortably sit. With an oeuvre that touches base from Planet E to Presto!?, and from Mahogani Music to Reflex, Ingram’s justified attempts at exiting the gravitational pull of genre tropes anticipate a dynamic edge of what we know is an ever-shifting centre.
Pre order Vinyl: Bandcamp
Tracklist.
A / 01. LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL
B1 / 02. MULTI FUNCTIONAL ROBOTICS
B2 / 03. SENSOR DATA
Artist. DJ Stingray 313
Title. INDUSTRY 4.0 EP
Cat#. TRESOR337
Format. 12″ / Digital
Release date. September 20th, 2024
Written, produced & mixed by Sherard Ingram
Artwork by Andrew “Andy” Roberts
Design by onlab
Published by Micron Audio Publishing
Mixed at Rooms Of Kairos, Berlin
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ Manmade Mastering
Cat. No. TRESOR337 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Tresor Records 2024
http://www.tresorberlin.com
Press Pic © Marie Staggat
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