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thx for enduring my drunken babbling. and the photo scares me!!
re: Ichso
i'm starting to like how when the strings are the upswing of their meandering and it crosses with a pushing UGH/beat its like totally not of any profound effect. i didn't like the way that sounded before, but now it gives me a pleasant feeling. i don't think i've ever heard anyone not use drums in a complimentary to melody way (when the melody was there). the percussion(including voice) versus strings really seem equal and separate protagonists unless i just need to wait and it'll come together??? curious what others are enjoying there. and not that they have absolutely no reason to be in the same song together its just way not the traditional thing...not sure if this necessarily leads to any existential themes. i guess you can place anything that works over it. i seriously can't think of anything else though that would. so much of electronic music seems to be about integrating shit and even ambient is like a totally different deal from this. it seems to all be in the percussion. i think people associate percussion with life/will obviously, so its weird for me to have big life sound -heart beating/heavy breathing but no story. and to hear this big spilling out talky story without any life. is that what others are liking here?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

I think you're on the right track Susan

the way I look at it the drums are this big heartbeat / pulse that after a while you don't even really notice (even though they are huge-sounding), it puts you in a sort of trance state where you can listen to the melodic patterns in super-detail

― Renard (Renard), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

ufff... whichever way I was originally listening to this before that comment somehow confused me, that WAS the right way. I knew it sounded backwards! Checked with the record, now for some retagging :)

I'm pretty sure I like this on a par with his previous stuff now too.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

xpost-but when i listen to it that way, the melodic parts bore me. i have no interest in going into detail with them. (scratch what i said about wanting to hear things separately) i like to think of them as some organically shifting thing that is intricate but doesn't need to be observed too closely for very long. i let them slip into the background, just like the beats. i'm not sure what my interest in this is about.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

yikes!

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=20397

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 3 February 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah i was quite surprised too when i read the boomkat newsletter

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 3 February 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Achso YSI?

― dogbone, Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure there are better "when the beat drops" moments in microhouse than Ichso, but I can't think of any right now.

― Lukas (lukas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:13 (twenty years ago)

this is what it must feel like to get fucked. by a massive kick drum.

― Lukas (lukas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Ichso Duso Erso Sieso
I'm like You're like He's like She's like

Hot Villalobos in anyone's language.

― Benn Glazier, Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Susan. New Villalobos is a bore. bring back 808 the Bass Queen.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

"a bore"? c'mon, you've gotta try a little harder than that.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

maybe he should put some female vocals on the top of all his shit and stop trying so hard. if he'd only make straight forward club tunes with diva's he'd be so much better. all this fractured melody and intricate drum programming is boring. we need Jacques Lu Cont remixes of Villalobos for the lazy listeners.

― aNonMouse, Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

his DJ sets have plenty of divas

― a, Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Aye, what he needs is more divas, and some big synth lines, and some saxophone, and some "funky" loops etc. etc. :/ No thanks!

Achso will probably be one of the best releases of this year in any genre, dance or otherwise. You can almost sense some sort of teleology to it. A departure (though not completely) from his early stuff but basically the logical conclusion of the Au Harem d'Archimede. Achso seems to be the apex, the full realisation of a unique vision. One has to wonder where he goes from here.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

can somebody clean up the mess this guy just made all over the place

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 4 February 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

i didn't really think it was a complete bore, just that it has potential to be boring. it probably depends on what you're listening for.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

so has anyone heard his rhythm & sound remix yet ("see mi yah")???

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Harvell. maybe if you'd spent less time stroking and loving your physical copy of 'Achso' and more time listening to it, you would have noticed the mislabelled MP3s before submitting your Pitchfork review. (looking at the tracklisting would have sufficed.)

PS Villalobos: Techno's first genius of the 21st Century? I thought he was overrated.

― a, Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

shit, i fear my ichso babbling was for sieso.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

PS : that would be "21st Century : Villalobos' first genius techno"

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

AND i would be so much easier for us theives if he would have said the approprate title atleast once during each the song. like he couldn't work that in! hmmmmph!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

wait a second-
i have ichso at 11:58. is this actually ichso?

time to buy, it i suppose

― lf (lfam), Sunday, 5 February 2006 07:48 (twenty years ago)

KEY FOR CHEAPSKATES + THE TURNTABLE IMPAIRED:

8A Sieso 11.58
8B Erso 11.19
10A Duso 12.49
10B Icho 13.44

― a, Sunday, 5 February 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

fandango's post makes sense to me now. i had these backwards.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

I still get the same general existential issues coming from all these tracks. But the real Ichso is a really REALLY beautiful beautiful not boring at all track and much more integrated than Sieso-throughout most of it, feels dominated by 1 voice. Things get blurred more on Duso and Sieso is just weirdness for me.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

???!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ricardo villalobos is replacing my steely dan obsession (which never as satisfying as it should have been anyway).

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Hmm yeah i had those tracknames backwards too.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 February 2006 06:14 (twenty years ago)

LIKE IT MATTERS. LIKE EVERYONE WASN'T JUST THINKING/SAYING 'THE ONE WITH THE GEETAR' ETC.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 6 February 2006 06:16 (twenty years ago)

My favorite tracks on this are the ones that end in 'o'

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

my favorite days are the ones that end in "day"

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

my favorites hos are the ones that end in "o"

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

By god I think you've gotten it.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 February 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

My favorite ILM threads are the ones that end in a flurry of random pictures of kittens.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

did I kill this thread? I'm surprised there's not more discussion.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

There's a sinister streak to Achso that I didn't pick up on until last night. I listened to it in headphones while dozing off to sleep, woke up about midway through the third track and felt a pronounced sense of vertigo that left me completely creeped out.

I love the dynamics in this thing though, it's as if every little percussive sound was individually animated.

― jeffery (jeffery), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://math.berkeley.edu/~vfr/IMAGES/kitten.jpg

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

i was going to post the first google result for "kitten" but, uh...

i can't understand why that is there.

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Although Achso is really the best work of Ricardo's career so far, it's really a shame this glorious landscaped music gets closed-up in vynil format or mp3 downloa(n)ding. This record deserves a bigger audience,and i hope those tracks will get a CD release someday, maybe as a part of a future album...

― Jasl, Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i've decided this album is the best thing i've heard in the past 2 years.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Which album?

― Cousin yogurt beard (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Achso has persuaded me that I definitely need to hear "Au Harem.." after all too (not that I'm sure that's what Susan's referring to).

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have anything negative, analytical or cautious to say about Achso anymore either, it's just fantastic! :)

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i'm talkin bout Achso.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it...an EP?

― Cousin yogurt beard (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. But it's 40+ minutes. Virtually an album.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I heard his Daktari remix recently, and it's a complete headfuck, and a curiously addictive one at that.

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

It's album price!

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Thursday, 23 February 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

...and a bit more (where i got it). but easylee worth every cent.

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 24 February 2006 07:23 (twenty years ago)

i think he may be playing with you when he calls it an ep, yogurt.

― lf (lfam), Friday, 24 February 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

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