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If you would've googled it, you'd see it is a live set from 1-4-06.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 19 August 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Fabric last night, what the fuck... INSANE new Villalobos re-mix/re-edit/mash-up. really familiar extended old school rapping (sounds like Grandmaster Flash vintage), Depeche-ish chorus (which I KNOW I've heard before, maybe it's from a more current minimal hit?), little kids talking smack, a Cocteauish chanting breakdown towards the end of the track (before slamming back into the chorus). he played it twice, once near the beginning, not the whole way through, then again at the very end -- all 15+ minutes of it then. jesus.

wild stab in the dark, but if anyone else was there, any idea what the original tracks he's used are? i was somewhat the worse for wear so couldn't manage to remember any of the lyrics (apart from one of the kid exchanges being "I win!" "I know!").

― a (rslvd), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

last night meaning Saturday, ugh

― a (rslvd), Monday, 11 September 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I am listening to this right now:
http://www.stagepass.com/images/item_gif/50481065.gif

and those sirens are there. The connections between Villalobos and the ultramodernists and minimalists of the 20th century keep growing in my brain.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

That was also a Zappa favorite. No further relation I'm afraid.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

ionisation always reminded me more of photek

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 107 for "vahid" "photek". (0.36 seconds)

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, yes. It's more that the strategy is the same: sirens that are sometimes in and sometimes out of phase with the beat, changing dynamically and registrally at key moments. Uh, yeah.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

do you think varese intended those effects?

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if its not anachronism to assign villalobos strategies to varese ... stockhausen probably did, i guess

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

plz to unpack

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

actually i'm wrong

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

varese was a genius of texture-- guy knew what he was doing. i've seen the score.

plz to unpack

what does this mean?

also, i just think that the connections between these musics are very interesting-- i am not assigning anything. that wouldn't really be the point.

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

what's the track on awakenings with the sirens? My copy has the beginning and end chopped off so the timings make no sense...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

it's Mark Henning's 'Kartoffelzuppe Smackdown' with air siren effects on top. dl any Villalobos mix from the last 4 months and they'll be on there somewhere

― a (rslvd), Friday, 15 September 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

oy the beginning and end are like integral!

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

RV should release that as a 'remix'. Easy money. I'd buy the fucker.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

i would buy it for the b-side recall of the siren sound

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

I just listened to some of the apparently 37 minutes of this Villalobos-track that doesn't have 44 minutes anymore. A friend played it to me. It's awesome. Very minimal, subtle changes and then out of nothing you have these huge sheets of sound that sound like a sicilian funeral band or something like that. And then I remembered that Villalobos played it at Berghain a couple of weeks ago - and it really shook the floor. It's all minimal tchicktchick here and mphhmphh there and then it opens this enourmous sonic room with these somber brass sounds. Really wonderful. It's not about the lengh. It's about these glimmering beautiful moments when this strange band kicks in.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sound like a Romanian gypsy band to me.

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe. I don't know that much about this kind of music.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think he may have played part of this at Lovebox then. I remember (patchily) a tune that a had a minimal-ragtime feel :P

Ricardo was in great form at Cocoon closing in Ibiza. Totally outshone Luciano. Ricardo plaid most of the tracks and did so very well.

― rchinn (rchinn), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

This is the same track as the one at the end of the Awakenings set yeah? The one with the horns? Love it, if so.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

it is a romanian gypsy band.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

guest vocals by Gogol Bordello

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

haha :D

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

There's a live bootleg going around of Villalobos remixing Depeche Mode's "Sinner In Me" that's more vocal house-ey than you'd expect.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 30 September 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

? unless it's a new one, that's one of the tunes of the summer. even mixmag charted it. the ones on soulseek seem to be about 10 minutes long, but he definitely plays it for longer than that generally...

it's not really vocal housey (apart from using the vocals?). more like an extended skeletal tease, an ur-repetition of the two verses/choruses coming in after about 5 minutes, the bassline after another few, then the massive subbass rumbles, then the synths etc -- it's all in the anticipation, i'd say it's almost a microcosm of his DJing at its best.

― a (rslvd), Saturday, 30 September 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

More "straight-forward" then.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 30 September 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Michael is right, it's just nice tribal vocal house! That's all.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 30 September 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

hi mrgn/harshaw ~~~

i finally got a chance to rip the original que bel epoque for you. there's some surface noise on it but it's otherwise in fine shape.

http://download.yousendit.com/CC7F290D2BFADAF7

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

actually hmm it sound a littly dusty in places. well, at least you get the idea.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 September 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

i think there's something wrong with my record player. the last delicate part is all squashed and wobbly. yuck!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

it's definitely more extended than a typical tribal vocal house record (and sparer!), the intro goes on forever, as do the vocal repetitions. i'd like to hear more stuff in this vein that's as effective! but yeah, it's very linear and smooth. i didn't guess it was by him initially.

― a (rslvd), Saturday, 30 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

thanks tracer! i've been wondering about that since i got the 2006 reshape

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 1 October 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

ya tracer, it's been long and hard and you have delivered... heard it once in a record shop and couldn't afford it. ha.

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 1 October 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

So this is what he's been doing instead of recording the Fabric mix:

http://spe.atdmt.com/b/3AAMPAMAPAMA/300x250_sweatit.jpg

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

So basically it turns out Ricardo is what I want to be. Impenetrable Chilean psued from the diaspora with rhythm as a second language. Viva!

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

My dad has told me to try and get in contact with him and bring him back to the house for ceviche and pisco when he's in the country. C/D?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

does your family speak bongo?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Aye, with a passing familiarity for conga.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

maybe senor coconut can stop by for backgammon...

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dude I wish. The awkward techno-lunch could go nuclear.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sinner in me is being released on Mute and was promo'ed two weeks ago. Rumour is Ricardo got his remix in late, Depeche Mode weren't so sure about the remix, but it's been really popular so its getting an airing. The track has been played since love parade and was dropped everywhere in Ibiza.

― rchinn (rchinn), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sinner in me is sehr gut. I've got a reasonable quality fifteen minute version off of slsk which cuts out abruptly just after seemingly starting to segue into a bit-crushed section, which has me intrigued. Surely it can't go on for much longer?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ricardo's been playing it since February (at the latest.) was in all his Fabric sets so far this year. I reckon it's about 14 minutes long, but obviously he has the capacity to extend it as long as he feels like since its structure is so repetitive and he's playing a digital copy of it.

glad to hear it's getting a release

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think Ricardo and Senor Coconut might prefer Badminton.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

so, the promos of 'fizheuer zieheuer' have dropped and it's totally insane - i can't stop laughing whilst listening to it. it definitely lives up to the hype. a parping, dubbed out, industrial klanking balkan freak out. i've no idea how long it is but i felt it could have gone on a wee bit longer. :)

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

i can totally imagine at the right time and in the right place completely losing my my mind to this on the dancefloor.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

yes, completely. best ever.

― a (rslvd), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

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