DJ Stingray 313 EP on Tresor

Tresor Records drops ‘INDUSTRY 4.0’ EP by DJ Stingray 313, out today. The EP is a sonic exploration into modern manufacturing concepts and the impact on humanity. Today they share the music video for the single ‘LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL’. As the title suggests, it represents a ride through the depths of large language models from the analogue to the digital and the worlds in between, ending in a collapse. 

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. 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.

A Detroit native, Sherard Ingram is an established figure in electro & techno from its earliest days, a menacing node in the vast tangle of electronic music’s history, present & future. 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 & 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 collaboration with the other half of Drexciya, Gerald Donald.

In 2017 Stingray mixed Kern Vol.4, Tresor’s compilation DJ mix series, while he’s released on both genre- centric & experimental labels from Planet E to Presto!? and from Mahogani Music to Reflex, his Micron Audio imprint to name a few.

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