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Where can I buy this EP? Is it readily available in the US (I like in NYC if you want to recommend a specific store). I'd love to own a lot of this stuff, but it's so hard to find, at least for me.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

"a vinyl double-pack in an era where many music hipsters have given up even CDs."

"do you have that new ep? / the one dude who has it has like 900 people ahead of me / i demand instant gratification."

hehe =)

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm assuming other music will carry it. any store that orders from forced exposure can get it.... in the EU check word and sound.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

heh i went ahead and bought it then. and it sounded terrible on my shitty old turntable. so i downloaded it. :-D

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

it is nice to have it in my hands to hold and stroke and love.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah I think my experience is going to be much the same! hey, at least the sleeve is beautiful, and it's incentive to get a better record deck (it needs more than just a new stylus).

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i was fairly shocked at the gatefold cover - for a 2x12! very nice indeed. cadenza's definitely stepping up their graphic design. plus hardwax has some lovely hoodies and t-shirts from the label; i am sporting mine daily!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i am sporting mine daily!

philip sherburne in not washing his t-shirt shock revelation.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry ILX, i still prefer "true to myself" to all the achso tunes! ill have another listen tonight, but thats my favourite of his, for sure

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Brain, bought mine at OM

― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Is his arm in a sling in that picture on the Cadenza website? Cause in my mind it is.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

stir, you don't even want to know....

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

villalobos should win an award for making cover art that looks most like his music sounds. listening to achso now, and it sounds like natural patterns allowed to expand freely while he puts beats under them. melody on first track (I think) sounds like it's charting the growth of a tree branch

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

"True To Myself" is definitely the best track on The Au'Harem by some distance though Susan, so I don't think you prefering it to Achso is hugely controversial.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

is that him singing on that? read that once, but if it is, he should start falsettoing and murmuring more.

― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

aw, i got renamed! i like my old name! ;)

i listened to achso again last night, and decided that i like "duso" and.... "ichso" but not so much the other ones. i dont really like the one with the wailing guitar all over it.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

wailing guitar? I need to listen again... looking forward to my vinyl arriving :-D haven't had a chance to play this any louder than an iPod goes yet :-(

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I think he means the first track .... that noise is kind of like drawn-out feedback ...

I love the part on Ichso that Tim referred to as "that awesome sprinkler system sound" .... it's quite the brain sizzler

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

xxpost-keep quiet, i was hoping i had a new identity soon! back to me, oh well :(

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I was expecting...

http://www.musicexpress.com/covers/54840.jpg

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I get her mixed up with Geir

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

the track im thinking of is "sieso". i dunno what it is but it sort of sounds like noodling on a guitar or something.

"erso" is pretty wicked too, i really like that shivery melody sound.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

"erso is pretty wicked too, i really like that shivery melody sound."

yeah- it kinda sounds like what would happen if Supersilent made a techno record.

― Trace, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Sieso is incredible! Duso is a little dull and prob the um 'low point' (of a 4 song record?) but i like it enough too. I listen to it on headphones at work while sorting papers, its very good paper-sorting music. I feel like in rustling the papers i'm participating in the music making process.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry for the Susan/Ambrose typo!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i still can't tell if I really like this music. I just listened to Ichso and I can't say. is it druggy b/c he's like trapped in a box and he's fighting around inside it, living in there and totally in touch with his situation but then at the same time he's totally in touch with the box and the box has some things to say, some sad beautiful important shit in first person but its motivation is just way different, and like they are totally really disconnected from each other, doing their own thing. its man is really alone thing/Call of the Wild situation. and then something happens at the end .. "the machines"?? ha ha come in and its another different thing, but there's sorta a connection there b/c ..i'm not sure... maybe they are sympathetic to both somehow or just b/c its like hey there can't possibly be any connection between anything so dude aloneness is ok we're doing it so well, see? maybe that i feel the ambient on top of structured here is so awkward that i'm forced to come up with these corny scenarios. but that's my problem now. its fucked up. is anyone else feeling this. it felt more natural to me before. maybe b/c im tired and a little drunk.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

its not really a corny scenario and i think i would be ok with it being in there if i could do what fandango was talking about separate the stuff, or enjoy them both at the same time w/o trying to combine them. JESUS! this is all making so much sense!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.philipsherburne.com/boxingricardo.jpg

Ricardo in a box.

(thnx Phil Sherburne.)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

omg deej, i'd totally forgotten about that. susan OTM! (btw, congrats susan on being the first person in history to convincingly attach an honest-to-goodness NARRATIVE to the innermost workings of ricardo's music. i'm serious!)

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

is that him singing on that? read that once, but if it is, he should start falsettoing and murmuring more.

-- Beta (andybet...), January 25th, 2006.

i think it's the amazingly awesomely amazing cassy britton who sings on "true to myself".

― rio natsume, Friday, 27 January 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Cassy!

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Sweet Jesus, this is amazing. "Ichso" might be his best track ever. I'm glad to hear him beef up the beats on "Ichso" and "Sieso" compared to the more stripped down "The Au Harem". And am I the only person who hears a resemblance between those two tracks and Photek circa "The Hidden Camera"?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Jed's "Dogman Go Woof" comparison is OTM as well, although I hear it more in "Sieso" than "Ichso".

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anybody worked out the password to access the delights of his website http://www.ricardovillalobos.com/

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm certainly feeling Susan's box post.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

yikes!

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

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

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

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

Achso YSI?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

his DJ sets have plenty of divas

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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