this has been a lovely little deconstruction of the (808) bass queenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEnXefJSFI
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
For map's benefit, I pulled together a shortlist of villalobos faves which I realised contains a lot of his pre-Alcachofa material when he could be surprisingly straightforward and obvious - reflecting that my taste in his work mostly skews towards the more populist material. But yeah there's a lot of fun to be had in some of the earlier tunes like "H.E.I.K.E. (Ricardo Villalobos Mood Mix)", as well as from that early 00s period where he was starting to develop his mature sound but was still pretty banging (e.g. "Bredow", "Alsbalduin").
Anyway:
808 the BassqueenSiesoBeck - Cellphone's Dead (Ricardo Villalobos Entlebuch Remix)Que Belle Epoque 2006IchsoAlsbalduinTrue to MyselfThe Contempt (Last H of Porto Mix)Richard Wolfsdorf - Buena OndaBredowRhythm & Sound – Let We Go (Villalobos Remix)H.E.I.K.E. (Ricardo Villalobos Mood Mix)BakaseccFool's Garden (Black Conga)Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submarines (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)Ric Y Martin - Sini EstSenor Coconut - Behind The Mask (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)FadutronNightmares on Wax - Back To Nature (Lobos On Wax House Mix)Y.G.H.
― Tim F, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
hell yes, i thank you heartily
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
will dig into that list asap, rn this very fresh jimi tenor remix make me feel some extraplanar type of way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJKzNzsnF84
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
(i know that was for map but thanks nunthless)
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
A favorite from the 2010s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mc_ED4L9Jg
Empirical house
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 21 June 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
man that shit is just so far out and sick. i love how he mixes together menacing and inviting textures.
his music just bursts with unique personality and it's such a thing of beauty when he makes the necessary effort, which strikes me as probably a difficult and time-consuming thing to accomplish.
of all the musicians that build a cult following around them ricky has to be one of the most deserving.
― davey, Monday, 21 June 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
you guys, thanks for all the links and titles and such. so busy this week but i have my weekend sorted lol.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 21 June 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
I own more releases by RV than anyone else, which I owe to coming of age as a dance music fan in the mid-00s, when it seemed like his infallible-minimal-auteur status was untouchable. Few artists have had a similar impact on me, yet I’m amazed at how many things (including many just listed that I don’t know). Plague raves do bother me as does his decision to play one, since it’s not like he hasn’t politicized his choice of gigs before (for instance, he refused to play in the US during the Bush years) and the zanzibar one seemed particularly questionable.
Some favourites that haven’t been mentioned:
MiamiFrank Mueller MelodramFor Disco Only 2Richard Wolfsdorf - Bosch (which desperately needs a repress)Wispa, which is the latest thing of his I’ve really likedHis Tony Allen RemixTu ActitudHis remix off isolee - I owe youfabric 36 Uli, Mein Ponyhof
etc etc
― ed.b, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
Definite cosign on "Miami" and in particular the "I Owe You" remix which I had intended to include in my list above. All the others that I know in that list are great too.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
The nightmares on wax one Tim mentioned is one of my favs
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
Sorry for not putting mine in list form. Just finding ones id saved in isolation
Obsessed with this one for a long time:
Primer Encuentro Latino Americano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1eqRPJscjU
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
Ricardo Villalobos events be likepic.twitter.com/kMlbMUXiaN— Fehmi Irgatto (@kalifiyeamele) June 14, 2021
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
I don’t think he does 10+ Mins songs because of megalomania, it’s common to have this long tracks for other djs to use when mixing… and also: drugs, lots of them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 10:22 (two years ago) link
xp lol ok sure but that video is 48 hours too short
― davey, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
I love For Disco Only 2--brilliant flip of Philip Glass's "Bed" aria from Einstein on the Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxIhaXjyj40
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:22 AM (eighteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i feel like im being semi tongue in cheek here? like, i dont think hes hitler? just mean you gotta be a special kinda guy to be like, i think 30 minutes is actually a great length for a techno song and i know people are gonna rock with it and encourage it
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
if only his stuff was available via an official bandcamp page.other than the fabric release there is very little out there for non-vinyl folks.hopefully at some point there will be a nice boxset released, but i suspect the legality and multitude of labels involved will make such a treat impossible.
― mark e, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 07:45 (two years ago) link
plague raves make stealing his music more than morally justifiable, build your own bandcamp
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 07:57 (two years ago) link
From what I’ve read in interviews he doesn’t care for streaming or digital music generally & prefers physical media iirc
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 07:58 (two years ago) link
if that's the case then i am sorry ricardo but i did this:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXMtyFU7mot1vJDbCIylzq3xFknj-VJH
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 July 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
thank you for this!
― boxedjoy, Monday, 5 July 2021 09:44 (two years ago) link
spritzcussion is so fucking good
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 09:23 (two years ago) link
one of the main things i remember about him in the 00s was that he would have special one off test pressings of things made specifically for club use so that doesn't surprise me
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
something like that anyway
His Taka Taka mix from 2003 is fantastic and the fadutron release he did in 05. Don't mind his fabric mix either but otherwise it's just too druggy for me, but not in the mind blowing acid+meth+skunk psychosis way.
― RobbiePires, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
Taka Taka is fantastic. I like the Love Family Trax mix as well but Taka Taka is the better of the two.
I do kinda miss that era of impeccably curated commercially released mix cds - i think Taka Taka and Immer and The Button Down Mind Strikes Back and Friends were all released within about the same12 month window.
Also cheers Tracer for the public service.
Some other good tracks I missed out on above (apart from some mentioned by others) are:
MormaxTemenarc 1DummolatorGucci - C&T ExperienceSense Club - Special KAuch - Tomorrow Goodbye (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)Mirko Loko - Takhtok (Villalobos ‘Hilery’s Chant’ Remix)
― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
added :)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 July 2021 11:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAxRy93RiA
Ricardo at Sunwaves (2011?)
― saer, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
the pre-Alcachofa corpus is such a treasure trove! there's an exhilarating moment half-way through "Damm3" where it mutates into this Phylypsian half-step skank, undergirded by an almost impossibly elastic bass structure ... the way in which he confounds the formal conventions of house music is always so impressive
― missingNO, Friday, 24 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
"subpad" is dangerously next level delirium jacking
― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 07:47 (two years ago) link
yeah go on then "bakasecc" as well why the hell not
― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
I’m annoyed at how expensive all these records are.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
"emilio (2nd minimoonstar)" is another 10s highlight—aperiodic burbling buchla squelch that gradually gives way to a strikingly beautiful plaintive melody
― missingNO, Saturday, 30 October 2021 06:51 (two years ago) link
sven väth – "cala llonga (ricardo villalobos remix)" (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1aU23CGaMk
― missingNO, Saturday, 30 October 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_AKDSdODWU
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
The Kiss U remix is awesome, have been playing it again and again.
― toby, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
I love that this two track remix EP is longer than most albums these days.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link