ricardo villalobos

..and how I like to use apostrophes incorrectly.

It is all my productions and it’s a form of introducing an album as a mix. Every time you do an album and then you do the next one, people start to compare how the music is different, why you did it on this label and not that label, they try to define it, “the other album was better,” “there’s no hit like ‘Easy Lee’ on it” and so forth…it’s exhausting, really. So I think you always have to find a new way to introduce your music and present yourself. I chose fabric because Judy has been asking me for 3 or 4 years now, but I’ve been so busy. And it’s really stressful to do a DJ mix. So I figured it would be much easier to do a mix with my own music, and of course fabric is the perfect label for me to do this on. The nicest thing is no one will really be talking about how it’s an album, it’s all moving along very naturally – no big promotion or releasing tracks for radio two months before. I really prefer for it to be treated like a normal mix CD, with no hype. Sound-wise, the mix is going to be more housey than head-y. I’m more known for head-y, trippy music, so of course it is still very trippy and monotone, in the monotone way of delivering always the same tone and doing something to your brain. But it will be more dancey and housey and summery. I always think of the dancefloor when I create music, but not a vision of the actual dancefloor – it’s always a vision of what’s going to happen. Of course at a club like fabric or a couple clubs in Berlin, you have this already. But many other clubs, not so much – so it’s a projection, a vision. And it’s not one track after another after another, it develops very subtly.

http://www.fabriclondon.com/press/beta/archives/694-guid.html#extended

Does anyone know where I could score a mix-length example of him in more of a banging dancefloor style?

I heard him play a live set like that at Mutek 2002, was incredible.

there is a website of a guy – I think he’s from Ecuador – who has the exact same name as me. He’s a visual artist and he cooks also, he is always giving life advice and that sort of thing. His website is www.ricardovillalobos.com. So many people think it’s me, giving life advice and very nice recipes for food – I always have people come up to me saying “oh, that recipe was incredible!”

oh

the fabric birthday mix from last year is pretty straight-forward & banging, particularly the first half.

I love the stretch of that Birthday mix in the second half that goes Shackleton Remix/Freaks remix of Recloose/Beck Cell Phones Dead Remix. I'm hoping that the Fabric CD is like that.

Also the way the first half of that mix ends with such fantastic dubstep tunes.

his more banging is good. but jesus god, i still get the shivers when i think about the awakenings fest set from 06. sooo varied and soooo fuckig ace.

would you happen to have a link to that anywhere?

streamed here

DL here @ 128 though

There are some really great bits of this thread, actually. Well worth a re-read. Susan's ramblings and all.

The Wire article was good, but I found phil writing about the music more interesting than Ricardo talking about it. I wish there was a space for longer-form critical appreciations of stuff without the need for an interview attached. (Although SOME blogs do do this, most are still snappier shorter bits of writing.)

It's always nice to see a minimal producer living in a perfect all-white retro-sci-fi apartment, though. I imaging Richie Hawtin actually sleeps in some sort of pod suspended in geostationary orbit.

Anyway, I've listened to Achso over and over again the past few days and it is pretty astonishing. I think the titles I have are mixed up, but judging by the rundown of times above, Sieso (which I have listed as Ichso) is my favourite. It's like an Indian raga, isn't it? I was trying to explain to a friend who doesn't like house or techno at all why it was good, and part of what I came up with is that dance music (despite some VERY strict strictures) does create a space where you can do things that you can't do anywhere else. How else would that melody have been made, or at least sold, if it weren't for the beat underneath?

13 Won’t You Tell Me – Ricardo Villalobos

Here's hoping this is he mental drum track with the girl talking about the taliban and giblets that he was playing at the start of the year...

prior, it's this:

Ricardo Villalobos & Andrew Gillings
Andruic & Japan

finally...

http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/release.php?item=fab36/ric

yay samples

well i suppose it's six months now. anyway, i think andruic & japan is far more noteworthy than primer encuentro.

as are many tracks on the cd are, really. (farenzer house!)

uh, newish thing up right here:
http://www3.speedyshare.com/data/936407853/5524920/79778591/ricardo%20villalobos%20-%20baila%20sin%20petit.mp3

been dropping it a lot this summer, apparently

v similar to primer encuentro. anyone know which set this is cut out of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YO3kVfgATE

I wish there was a pic of that speaker described in the article!!

http://www.martion.de/english/images/Orgon2.jpg

Martion Orgon

First listen through, the Fabric album is sounding quite good indeed.

So...those Martion speakers...are speaking, speaking to me...

To get an idea of their scale, check out Martion's gallery of installed Orgons: http://www.martion.de/english/orgonpics.html

THEY'RE HUGE!

WANT!

http://www.martion.de/english/orgonpics/org07.jpg

yes

And apparently sell for ~40000 EUR/$55,000 USD.

So the question, I guess, is: do I get just one pair?

Wow, they can be used as fucking PA speakers...

http://www.martion.de/opernpics/oper06.jpg

ok, so he has remixed "confusion" by new order.

yeah, the only new order track with an acapella.

it's really hard to tell from the juno sample what the tune actually does.

it may be the only NO tune with an acapella, but it's probably my favorite so i was very surprised to see news of the remix in my inbox today.

ricardo's new mix for chica and the folder is just sublime, one of my favorite things he's done, perhaps.

so is this new order remix actually just some dodgy bootleg by someone else, or an actual remix? this seems to suggest the former:

http://www.discogs.com/release/977498

it's been a long time since i heard that perlon, but the sample sure sounds like older villalobos with some bernard sumner dropped on top. it probably is a bootleg. it didn't seem that out of place - depeche mode, beck, new order, we could've had a lollavillalobopalooza on our hands.

it's a pitched down version of Frank Müller Melodrame

The discogs page for him has proved vv useful for working out what speeds I'm supposed to play his recs at; turns out I've been playing most of Alcachofa at the wrong speed for a couple of years. And suddenly "Damm3" seems a much better track...

new villalobos things i'm excited about (from listening to online samples):

his remix of miss fitz's "menternal".

his 'odd machine' collab with tobias freund.

Came upon thisthis today., which I at least hadn't know of before, discogs says it's released this months, so. . .

report back on the plat

might be a bootleg... anyone know?

fwiw wordandsound says

Ricardo Villalobos with his first 3x12″ Production being Recording Artist and Actual Record Label Programmer. SED might be a one time venture working completely solo

yeah i ask because the samples on there are taken from fabric 36, which is hopefully just for convenience, but who knows.

report back on the plat Unfortunately I don't actually have it, I just saw it on discogs. report back on the plat
Unfortunately I don't actually have it, I just saw it on discogs.
You'd think something like this would have been really hyped up to, but then again, that's probably the point of releasing it himself, as to not create a giant anticipatory build up.

not everything on there is from the fabric album, right? baila sin petit only exists as leaked mp3 at this point i think.

elan -- i mean the audio samples that are also on fabric 36 are just ripped from the cd. ie the vox from four wheel drive are clearly audible on the fitzpatrick sample.

i'm pretty sure it's his own label...
but no "four wheel drive"? bastards!

ohh xpost
kind of lame

so the track that he and luciano have been playing out with the children's vocals is apparantly ricardo villalobos ft. christian vander - infants. i assume christian vander is just sampled but i still find it cool that ricardo is a magma fan

Is that the one in thisclip hopefully so, because it sounds really great!

it's just a looped piano and some children chanting... it does sound great in a set but again, firmly a DJ tool (he tends to play it with a separate drum track mixed in underneath it). i'm surprised it's getting released really.

so jaded...