ricardo villalobos

yay, Part 1 has subtitles now

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

This does sound potentially amazing, yes.

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.

this is fantastic.

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/03/podcast-ricardo-villalobos

heard that earlier..really good.

Love it
Glad he's gotten back to his roots

elegant, austere, primordial

not the first time RV has been used for a April fool's either. http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=9201

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.

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.

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.

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.

bad punctuation, should be comma after "in a way".

Heh, my dad is Chilean diaspora too, hence he's the only DJ my parents (well at least my mom) knows of.

do it jim

post any interesting drunken anecdotes

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

so did anyone else check up on that ECM thingy?

does anyone know which is really ichso and which is sieso? there seems to be some mixup.

sieso on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNJk631iwtQ

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.

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?

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

Anyone heard the new record yet?

Havent processed it all Yet but theres some really good stuff on there, Ricardo has been playing some of it out for a while

Dependent and Happy, right? Haven't been able to find it yet but excited for some new Villalobos.

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.

Any Ideas is good - I actually prefer the B-side called Emilio (2nd Minimoonstar).

http://www.discogs.com/Ricardo-Villalobos-Any-Ideas/release/3639644

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.

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.

I meant Minimoonstar's drum pattern above, not Vasco on the whole.

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

my initial impression is that it's pretty boring, but i'll give it some time.

i thought it was lively

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.

Yeah, I've struggled getting through it so far. I need to find the right frame of mind.

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?

I'm really enjoying the mixed version with a few missing tracks vs. the LPs. It seems to work well.

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.

new track/ep. got a sort of older RV vibe. any direction he takes is sound imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi5CDOVHCxo

other side is a jam

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.

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...

Seems to have become 4 separate installments: http://www.discogs.com/Ricardo-Villalobos-Dependent-And-Happy-4/release/4093518

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.

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.

Hansup seems ubiquitous of late, I love it!

It's damn catchy!

liquidating my record collection : ( listened to fizheuer many times this week. still so so great.

Really into koito from last album, that track didn't hit me at first but it sure does now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgJrRs03_RI

this is amazing. other side is similar and really sweet, too