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...he's just great.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Thursday, 22 December 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone else heard the new Dinky? it's great! picked it up cuz she always seem to be lumped in with the Villalobos/Luciano/etc. crowd...really busy, crisp and clappy

― manuel (manuel), Thursday, 22 December 2005 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Is "Achso" going to be released on CD?

― Crocus Behemoth (modern dance), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

nah. cd is an obsolete medium - vinyl is the future

― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i really like to google his photos! but i want to listen to Alcachofa someday ...i just fear it right now for some reason.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Really? It's a masterpiece.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, maybe not, but it's really good.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

hey adam, are you on seoulseek? do you have that new ep?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not on right now. But I will be.

It's on there though!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah the one dude who has it has like 900 people ahead of me.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i demand instant gratification.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be on tonight, probably.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

you're a kind man

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Instant? Just pay the $5 to the slsk dudes, you'll be downloading like crazy in no time. Unless you think that there's some conspiracy where they sell your name to the r1aa.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Achso is great. The layering and hazy semi-structure of everything is really engrossing. Sieso has that kernal popping drum programming ala Flutter, only way more engrossing due to its consistancy.

― Alexander (Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith), Friday, 13 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I've only listened to Achso at the shop but it sounded really good, I imagine I would like it more than either of his two albums. He's discovered honest to god grooves again! But not abandoned the ketamine...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Achso better than The Au Harem but probably not better than Alcachofa ...

― Renard (Renard), Saturday, 14 January 2006 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link

"seiso" shows the man has discovered the ebow as well.

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm tempted to say Achso is his best release yet (at least best "album") -doesn't have the immediacy of Alcachofa, but I also like the utter lack of pop-ness. It's basically a far morme realized The Au Harem.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah it's like The Au Harem stripped away almost everything .... now he let the door open a crack for the light to leak back in (but only a little bit)

― Renard (Renard), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i just listened briefly last nite, but alcochofa sounds like someone with sensory damage made it -some totally bizarre sounds and percussive sounds that don't really follow the rules but you can still sorta identify with it. is there something wrong with villalobos? i like it though - but its very very bizarre.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

while i dig it (the gatefold penumbras make for gooey gazing), i haven't been as lost in it as i was with even the recent "Chromosul"/ "Fadutron" single.

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Susan, have you listened to anything else? Villalobos was probably doing his most conventional song stuff on that album.

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

oh dear! no,this is it. direct me into the crazy(er) territory pls!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Listen to his Sven Vath or Lopazz remixes.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks-i'll search for that tommorow! btwn the Arp She Said (Lindstrom), Alchocofa, and re-discovering St. Dan's "Third World Man" (which i'm obsessively playing) i'm having a really great musical weekend!! CHEERS EVERYBODY!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm ramazed at the percussive sounds on this. he pay alot of attention to that, i think.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

oi,i guess thats kinda a given. ok will stop posting now-having a musically euphoric weekend-pls forgive.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Susan, here's a more recent track of his (nicked off YSI thread) - http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06SMJKFVREH4W1BNUQJZGNO7C2

the first time I heard some of this newer stuff (Just Chromosul & Duso, I missed "Au Harem...") was a definite "wtf?" moment yes. I hadn't even thought about a CD release. Is he actually planning a new "album" or just going with the flow with all this? I'll try not to think about the 'upcoming' Fabric mix.

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

thx!!!!!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

On a Dutch television interview he says he's focussing on singles right now, since The Au Harem and Alcochofa came so close together.

― Alexander (Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith), Sunday, 15 January 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

susan, go out and buy the "achso" 2x12 on cadenza - they should have it at tweekin' or amoeba (right mike???). i don't think it's getting a CD release. it's fucking fantastic and yes, INCREDIBLY damaged, but also really coherent if you listen in the right way. it's basically a full LP, at least in length, even though there are only 4 tracks. (i've said before that if a 12" side could contain more than 15 minutes or whatever at decent sound quality, he'd start working to whatever length was possible.)

it might take a while to get into, but i really think you'll like this one.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

sorryu i know this is a bit lame, but i cant find where in all of the villalobos threads someone mentioned a mix he was doing/ or did, like ive made a mental note of 3 mix cds hes putting out, one is green and blue (both sides of that are great!), the other is the fabric mix, and im sure someone mentioned a 3 hes done on a label i have never heard of, the label possibly beings with an 's'? anyone?

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

tama taka taka?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Love Family Trax?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

those are the only three on discogs.

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm it was a new one.i think i must have been dreaming it. hopefulyl taka taka is coming my way, i love that mix!

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

did anyone like the for disco only 12? i wasn't really feeling the philip glass remix much but the a-side is awesome, you sometimes forget how well villalobos works on the dancefloor. glad to hear he's only doing maxi-singles from now on as i can't really get into his full lengths.

― rio natsume, Monday, 16 January 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"in the summer I am getting a baby with my girlfriend"

love r.villalobos

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Obviously they stopped taking the pill then.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Monday, 16 January 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Just watch - everyone will start getting a baby now.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

ysi?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"Let's all move to Berlin, get a baby in the summer and be cool"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

:) haha

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost to phil - thx for the specific recommendation. i wasn't able to find Achso, but i bought Au Harem. I haven't gone back to Alchochofa yet, b/c I couldn't connect with the way it's pop, but it intrigues me how it is pop but so unwillful. not to dredge up discussion on that since i literally only listened like once and half and this is memory of feeling. -also could be the minimalism. anyway, going to try au harem.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Achso is so good! I've never been a villalobos-obsessive but this makes me want to be.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

This release feels very er deliberate in its approach to the rhythm/melody split in a way that feels more like Detroit techno than anything else he's done. It very much feels like the "jam" element of The Au Harem has been shifted entirely onto these really lush abstract melodies, allowing the beats to be a bit more kinetic and physical - the melody on "ichso" make me think of late Talk Talk, while the melody on "Sieso" is total Eno/Orbital/IDM plinkyplonkyness (plus that awesome sprinkler system sound - wow!).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Achso is... astounding!! (Tim get out of my brane)

Best e.p. ever :-D

Slightly more techno than Alchochofa too? That surprised me a little. It's definitely at the same quality level though. I think I'd still give top marks to the former for it's... muscularity?

This, and listening again to Alchochofa the other day and being totally refreshed and surprised (before the thread got revived btw) made me wonder if I haven't overrated the Isolee record too. They seem to come from a similar place, but I think Ricardo might be even more touched with genius/magic/insanity somehow.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

at least I'm not mad thinking it's more techno (obviously you now explained while I was writing that other post!).

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Tim absolutely spot on about the Talk Talk-ness of "Ichso"; if Mark Hollis came in singing "take my freedom/for giving me a sacred love" it would sit there perfectly. Seiso reminds me alot of something i can't quite place.... Erso seems madly paranoid (in a good way) and is probably my favourite thing here (after 2 listens). Philip, can you say more about why you find the EP "incredibly damaged"? cos i think i agree.

i thought i'd lost interest in RV after Au Harem, but this is great.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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His Taka Taka mix from 2003 is fantastic and the fadutron release he did in 05. Don't mind his fabric mix either but otherwise it's just too druggy for me, but not in the mind blowing acid+meth+skunk psychosis way.

― RobbiePires, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link

Taka Taka is fantastic. I like the Love Family Trax mix as well but Taka Taka is the better of the two.

I do kinda miss that era of impeccably curated commercially released mix cds - i think Taka Taka and Immer and The Button Down Mind Strikes Back and Friends were all released within about the same12 month window.

Also cheers Tracer for the public service.

Some other good tracks I missed out on above (apart from some mentioned by others) are:

Mormax
Temenarc 1
Dummolator
Gucci - C&T Experience
Sense Club - Special K
Auch - Tomorrow Goodbye (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)
Mirko Loko - Takhtok (Villalobos ‘Hilery’s Chant’ Remix)

― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link

added :)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 July 2021 11:23 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAxRy93RiA

Ricardo at Sunwaves (2011?)

― saer, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

the pre-Alcachofa corpus is such a treasure trove! there's an exhilarating moment half-way through "Damm3" where it mutates into this Phylypsian half-step skank, undergirded by an almost impossibly elastic bass structure ... the way in which he confounds the formal conventions of house music is always so impressive

― missingNO, Friday, 24 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

"subpad" is dangerously next level delirium jacking

― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 07:47 (two years ago) link

yeah go on then "bakasecc" as well why the hell not

― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link

I’m annoyed at how expensive all these records are.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 October 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link

"emilio (2nd minimoonstar)" is another 10s highlight—aperiodic burbling buchla squelch that gradually gives way to a strikingly beautiful plaintive melody

― missingNO, Saturday, 30 October 2021 06:51 (two years ago) link

sven väth – "cala llonga (ricardo villalobos remix)" (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1aU23CGaMk

― missingNO, Saturday, 30 October 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

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

― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link

The Kiss U remix is awesome, have been playing it again and again.

― toby, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link

I love that this two track remix EP is longer than most albums these days.

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link

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