― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:52 (10 years ago) Permalink
His stuff on the Perlon comp. is great, and his label put out Further's "Stone Cold", for which I could kiss him.
Actually he's quite kissable in an art-phag sort of way.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
Fabric mix sure is good news, hope it has loads of "space children from outer space singing" type of tracks on it.
― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:19 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
Somewhat boringly I tend to like Villalobos at his most accessible - but I also love "True To Myself" because it reminds me of Isolee's "I Owe You".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:31 (8 years ago) Permalink
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:36 (8 years ago) Permalink
― willem (willem), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:35 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:50 (8 years ago) Permalink
― robot by the river, Monday, 24 January 2005 22:01 (8 years ago) Permalink
― willem (willem), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:14 (8 years ago) Permalink
Having said that, his set was fantastic. Which is more than I can say for Sven - the big gurning lunactic."
― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:30 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:33 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:28 (7 years ago) Permalink
And the the whole concept is so great: "Ichso", "Duso", "Erso", "Sieso" - that's "I'mlike", "You'relike", "He'slike", "She'slike" in English. That's what weird communication at 6am feelslike.
― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:25 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:13 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― manuel (manuel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:18 (7 years ago) Permalink
It's on there though!
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:19 (7 years ago) Permalink
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:20 (7 years ago) Permalink
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anyways lets continue to gaze is awe at his studio
― Malcolm Money, Sunday, 13 September 2009 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
yay, Part 1 has subtitles now
― Malcolm Money, Thursday, 24 September 2009 17:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3758&Itemid=26
This is very exciting, especially if it's as good as the Carl Craig 'Recomposed' project
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Friday, 23 October 2009 11:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
This does sound potentially amazing, yes.
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 October 2009 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Was excited to see a positive notice for Romuald Karmakar’s doc “Villalobos” in the newest issue of Film Comment (Nov/Dec) the other day. Writer calls it one of the Venice Film Festival’s “most beautiful works.” He goes on to write that, “This visually raw portrait of world-famous Chilean-born German DJ Ricardo Villalobos is made with modest means but nonetheless allows the viewer to savor the uniqueness of every moment. We see Villalobos listening to new records, separating the wheat from the chaff, talking about his art, revealing how he creates his sounds, playing to often stadium-size crowds, discussing politics, sex, and how contemporary culture is a flight from all the pain and crushed hope that genuine human contact entails. Here, making music (or films) is to search for contact with other people—to communicate, to share experiences and ideas, to gain enlightenment, i.e., the basis of civilization. Villalobos gives digital form to how simple this could be if we honestly tried.”
Here’s to hoping it gets a theatrical release at some point.
― Brian C, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
this is fantastic.
http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/03/podcast-ricardo-villalobos
― jaxon, Friday, 1 April 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
heard that earlier..really good.
― Packie Bonner (Local Garda), Friday, 1 April 2011 20:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Love itGlad he's gotten back to his roots
― Odult Ariented Rock (Ówen P.), Friday, 1 April 2011 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
elegant, austere, primordial
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 1 April 2011 23:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
not the first time RV has been used for a April fool's either. http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=9201
― mmmm, Saturday, 2 April 2011 09:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just got the 2CD set Re: ECM, on which he remixes stuff from the ECM catalog. It's out now in Europe, out in September in the US. Really, really beautiful.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
just hearing sample it hears a lot like the au hareme.
can't believe i already posted in here without noticing this post
PS @jim, I still have your FZ CD, I'll bring it into work and leave it out back - ask about it next time you're in if I'm not about.
― krakow
this is still the case iirc! i'm a fool, didn't notice this last time i posted on this thread.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.factmag.com/2011/06/21/ricardo-villalobos-a-fine-balance/
good interview. just ordered this. for my mum, for her birthday, she loves villalobos, ha.
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha, your mum loves ricardo? that's fairly out there. my dad always says, whenever he's in glasgow, that i should get in touch with his people and invite him to dinner, and since he's part of the chilean diaspora my dad is convinced he'd accept. although that would be cool in a way i've never attempted.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
bad punctuation, should be comma after "in a way".
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Heh, my dad is Chilean diaspora too, hence he's the only DJ my parents (well at least my mom) knows of.
― EDB, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
do it jim
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
post any interesting drunken anecdotes
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok couldn't wait
this isn't very techno so far, some of it is very pretty. sound design is sick, as you'd imagine. so far, not as deep and layered as i was expecting
does anyone know if this is *only* ecm samples?
recurrence is incredibly drunk and wonky and beautiful, but it kind of does just sound like some free improvisers jamming something out
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
so did anyone else check up on that ECM thingy?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
does anyone know which is really ichso and which is sieso? there seems to be some mixup.
sieso on youtube:
but on four tet's fabriclive sieso is not that track. it's actually the track that's titled ichso on my mp3. discogs and online retailers also have different versions of which is which.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 20 April 2012 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i listened to mp3s and it was like looking at out of focus pictures and i couldn't really tell the tracks apart or pick out anything to latch onto
maybe i was missing something though, should i relisten? what are the top 3 tracks?
― the late great, Friday, 20 April 2012 01:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
just listen to sieso mp3 and then compare it to the sieso on that youtube vid. if your mp3 came from the same source as mine, it'd be different than the vid.
the order on discogs is this:Sieso Erso Duso Ichso
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 20 April 2012 01:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the new record yet?
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 1 September 2012 19:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
Havent processed it all Yet but theres some really good stuff on there, Ricardo has been playing some of it out for a while
― suare, Sunday, 2 September 2012 11:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
Dependent and Happy, right? Haven't been able to find it yet but excited for some new Villalobos.
― studyplenty, Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
Apparently there was also another single released on Perlon this year in May called Any Ideas. Perlon is now by far his main label for output.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 15:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
Any Ideas is good - I actually prefer the B-side called Emilio (2nd Minimoonstar).
http://www.discogs.com/Ricardo-Villalobos-Any-Ideas/release/3639644
― studyplenty, Sunday, 2 September 2012 19:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
Listening to LP1 and LP2 of Dependent and Happy now - very nice stuff, but I feel like he has reused the drum programming from Vasco about... 5 times now, with subtle variations. Too subtle, though.
― studyplenty, Sunday, 2 September 2012 20:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
Emilio (2nd Minimoonstar) seemed like a big return to form to me. Haven't listened to Dependent and Happy properly yet, but liked what I've heard so far.
― toby, Sunday, 2 September 2012 20:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
I meant Minimoonstar's drum pattern above, not Vasco on the whole.
― studyplenty, Monday, 3 September 2012 09:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/16/160946011/first-listen-ricardo-villalobos-dependent-and-happy
just got done listening to this. enjoyed it, not sure what else to say just yet
― dmr, Monday, 17 September 2012 21:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
my initial impression is that it's pretty boring, but i'll give it some time.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
i thought it was lively
― j., Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm Counting is my fav so far. Got the whole thing on minitech a week back. I'm glad he's making techno again.
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've struggled getting through it so far. I need to find the right frame of mind.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
About 3 sections of this are insanely good; it is a little bit boring when it gets too percussive. He has a knack for emotive drones, but they're absent way too much on this. He is a bit good though, such a trip getting inside all these sounds, incredible textures, everything constantly in flux. Who else is making techno LPs as weird as this right now?
― Crackle Box, Monday, 15 October 2012 16:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'm really enjoying the mixed version with a few missing tracks vs. the LPs. It seems to work well.
― studyplenty, Monday, 15 October 2012 17:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
Some of Happy and Dependent is really lush, I'm a bit of a sucker for his sound though. I know he works mainly with hardware and it often sounds as if he is tweaking stuff in real time, i think you can really hear that in his music which is not at all common these days and very refreshing.
― picturemetrollin (prettylikealaindelon), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 11:32 (6 months ago) Permalink
new track/ep. got a sort of older RV vibe. any direction he takes is sound imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi5CDOVHCxo
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Thursday, 20 December 2012 11:50 (4 months ago) Permalink
other side is a jam
― suare, Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:19 (4 months ago) Permalink
side A is weird but ok it could grow on me, but the B side is great.
do you know if you can buy the full length tracks from the happy and dependent vinyl as downloads? i'd rather have those than the mix on the cd release.
― sylvia plath hand clap (prettylikealaindelon), Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:54 (4 months ago) Permalink
Given that Perlon doesn't do mp3, I'm gonna say no. I reckon relaying an album over 3 separate installments is a pretty self indulgent thing, insofar as it's not so fair to bemoan the decline of vinyl and have people shell out like $65 for an album. Alas...
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 20 January 2013 03:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
Seems to have become 4 separate installments: http://www.discogs.com/Ricardo-Villalobos-Dependent-And-Happy-4/release/4093518
― with hidden noise, Sunday, 20 January 2013 03:40 (3 months ago) Permalink
And those aren't even on the mix - which I'm enjoying by the way. To be sure it does nothing new or original or innovative or especially creative or even interesting for Ricky V, but does it in a way that's at least not dull and is enjoyable and well crafted. I guess you know what you're getting with these things.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 20 January 2013 04:23 (3 months ago) Permalink
More copies of Part 4 have surfaced. Glad about that, 'Precox' and especially 'Two Kids Set Off' are hitting the spot. Them and 'Hansup' are my favorites from him recently.
― mmmm, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
Hansup seems ubiquitous of late, I love it!
― suare, Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:22 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's damn catchy!
― mmmm, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
liquidating my record collection : ( listened to fizheuer many times this week. still so so great.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:12 (5 days ago) Permalink
Really into koito from last album, that track didn't hit me at first but it sure does now
― suare, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:25 (5 days ago) Permalink