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How's your German? You have to focus and lip read at times! I think this is the interview disc that Geeta mentioned picking up for free in Berlin a while back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca2oSwmqA9A&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-_rqvpPHKY&mode=related&search=

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

his dj sets is his best asset. in my mind. at this point.

(yeah, what is the deal with fewer beat-beats and more bassline-beats in hip-hop?)

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think this is the interview disc that Geeta mentioned picking up for free in Berlin a while back

He always seems so simpatico (although it looks like his girlfriend cuts his hair :)

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god why would anybody take an english video and make it german????

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

For German people to watch on German telly?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

odd the interview wasn't initially conducted in German though; I'm sure Hawtin speaks it.

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

He could be a Momus (lives in Japan and Germany, speaks neither Japanese nor German).

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, internet sarcasm fails again

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

i just want a copy of salvador and unflug 12" so bad right now

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

i really can't believe this statement:

i find the frisbee tracks stuff INCREDIBLY weak compared to alcachofa (which totally works on the dancefloor, just not a 'banging' one)... different folks though.

have you heard logohitz??

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

ALCACHOFA PWNZ SALVADOR, NOOB!

― Dan Barramouss (jimnaseum), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't dislike the Frisbee tracks stuff. it's more a measure of my Alcachofa love (and a reaction to your preposterous "Villalobos has fallen off since 2000" statement!)

― a (rslvd), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

i already clarified that statement!

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

but in the spirit of flogging a dead horse and lancing a strawman, i'm going to say that i think it's just as preposterous to say that he's gotten better since then.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

since then being my new line drawn between 808 the bassqueen and alcachofa, in 2003

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

er, the 808 reissue

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

actually, just leave the line in 2000

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

haha you're pretty involved in this. as my introduction to this whole sound and something I've been listening to regularly for over three years now, Alcachofa is always going to own my heart. I can't listen to Salvador and hear anything but a sketchpad for it. (btw, is your arbitrary line Dec 31st 1999 or Dec 31st 2000?)

I'm not going to get bogged down into an argument into whether the post-2000 material is objectively better. if you think it's equal, more power to you. '808 The Bassqueen' is obviously genius, but I can't sit through 'The Contempt', and while something like 'Heike' is great, his newer productions are certainly more distinctive. in terms of his tracks' dancefloor functionality decreasing, well, I'll concede that, excepting his remixes (are you taking these into account at all?) and Fizheuer...

― a (rslvd), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

my arbitrary line is between the sense club record from 2000 and the bredow / damm3 record from 2001. but i don't really want to get bogged down in an argument about objectivity in music appreciation, either.

his remixes are still great.

i don't really think most of his music is that distinctive, just a lot better than that of his contemporaries. i do think that his really tracky percussive stuff for perlon is pretty distinctive, however, especially the tiny, squiggly basslines that appear ever few bars. those are definitely a signature of his at this point.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

"sinner in me" and "cell phone's dead" remixes are the shit. better than alcachofa or the frisbee tracks.

villalobos as an independent entity worthy of interest outside of just general "i like microhouse" didn't really work for me so much until his "the au harem" hippy percussion phase, though.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Monday, 20 November 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Sinner In Me" remix is the worst thing I've ever heard from him. Needlessly long, totally un-funky, vocals don't work with the backing track, next.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

It works much better than I would have expected in a club setting.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

i am confused: i understand fizheuer as a DJ tool-- i've mixed it into tracks at parties, etc.-- but i don't really hear it as having dancefloor 'efficiency' on its' own.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

"sinner in me" and "fizheuer..." played simultaneously on the optimo essential mix gives me shivers.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

trees: post-7AM dancefloor efficiency...

― a (rslvd), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

"sinner in me" and "cell phone's dead" remixes are the shit. better than alcachofa or the frisbee tracks.

contarianism jumps the shark right here^

― brr (fandango), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

d00dz, it's not like i'm just sitting around trying to think of new wacky opinions! i like f*ckponyadelic and mathew jonson a lot, is it surprising that i would like these remixes?

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

actually i'm with Vahid here - a few tracks aside Alcachofa just isn't all that good. what tracks they are though!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think the "sinner in me" remix is totally unfunky. in fact, i think it's quite funky. let's see, it's got a totally catchy bassline that's like a slightly more awake version of that classic m7 maurizio bassline, it's got those rolling bongos and tiny percussion hits, and the vocal doesn't work at first but then it satisfyingly "clicks" around the halfway mark when that countermelody comes in. it's a nice trick and the instrumentation actually makes it a much more uplifting and positive song than the original. okay it's not a dancefloor banger (which villalobos is?) but it's a nice deep house track in the tradition of the best henrik schwarz or moodymann, except with that techy, druggy k-house vibe. i think it's totally killer.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

trees: post-7AM dancefloor efficiency...

Yeah, like all of us posting here are Germans or otherwise-situated ex-pats who have the pleasure every fucking weekend-- I like 'Fizheuer' a lot, I just think that it needs to be put in its proper context, which you just did.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

it's the new downtempo!

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

i like the idea!

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, Alcachofa is probably less danceable overall than those tracks but for me it's a LOT more efficient, considered & memorable for it.

I think the only track I'd lose off it (the cd edition anyway) is "Theogenese" as it usually bores me. "Bahaha Hahi" still slays me every time. That new Perlon ep just sounds a bit half-arsed & muddily produced to me "Dummolater" is the best thing on it but even that starts well and then never develops as much as you think it's going to.

― brr (fandango), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Fizheuer's context is firmly early hours; that's when Villalobos generally DJs (even in London he never starts before 5); the concept of dancefloor friendliness changes the later the hour, but at the same time it's not like you could ever rock a party with Duso.

― a (rslvd), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

my bad... Erso... those mp3s

― a (rslvd), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

the awesomeness of his latest stuff has sent me back to the 2-disc locodice mix. it's good! and i listened to alcachofa again. it's good, too! it works!

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I love that Motorcitysoul remix of Kids in the Street.

Don't you like "Que Belle Epoque 2006" Vahid?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

believe or not, i haven't heard it. i imagine i might!

the tracks on ricardo's green+blue mix that are blowing me away are the last three. i've said it a bunch of times but it's crazy how ricardo goes from totally unassuming to crazy banging in the space of like three tracks.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

and for the fabric set, vice versa

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of Schwarz/DM remix... there's a great moment in an afterparty mp3 i have where Ricardo mixes a track from that live CD under the first half of The Sinner In Me. fits perfectly.

― a (rslvd), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

"believe or not, i haven't heard it. i imagine i might!"

You should Vahid, it's fantastically cheesy for a thirteen minute minimal track.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

the sinner in me remix is fantastic, especially when it's pitched up slightly like in the mp3 someone posted before the official mix leaked

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

i was wondering about that! a lot of times i have been totally into a track until i realized it was pitched up for a mix, then when i hear it in full form it seems to be missing some energy.

is the version in the villalobos fabric birthday mix at the correct speed??

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

official version, judge for yourself: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5i97sd

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

5iCK

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

that was uberboring atleast on first listen.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

(obvious zing skipped)

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of Schwarz/DM remix... there's a great moment in an afterparty mp3 i have where Ricardo mixes a track from that live CD under the first half of The Sinner In Me. fits perfectly.

which show is this? i think all the afterparty mp3s i have are way old...

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

listen more, susan!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

sonic pusher! aaaaaah okay.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

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