Ricardo Villalobos Alcachofa Rar File Full Session Minimoonstar

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Ricardo trouve le mouvement perptuel dans limmobilisme en utilisant judicieusement les filtres et les delays.

Avant a, il avait uvr avec Jay Haze pour deux EPs en 2004 avec notamment Fenlow et Kick The Verb.

The Chilean has come a long way since his early days, cleaning out all the biggest clubs across the planet and sharing the tables with Richie, Luciano and Raresh.

I can already see the forked tongues shouting, hes a sell-out, before spitting on one of the virtuosos of the XXI st century, yet it would be necessary to understand the subtlety of his work.

Their arrival in Berlin went well despite the cultural barriers, but this exodus would leave a mark on him, a mark that would reflect in his musical work.

Congas and bongos gave his childhood its tempo and would take a prominent place in his productions, but it was his admiration for Depeche Mode that would push him toward synths and rhythm boxes at the end of the 80s.

He suffered failure in 93 with his label Placid Flavour, and in the meantime he met the guys of Playhouse who would press his first vinyl a few months later.

Disregarding all the codes, in between minimal and experimental, Ricardo trifles with our brains and redefines the foundations of techno music.

Awarded best album of the decade by Fact Magazine and Resident Advisor, Alcachofa is a good example of these albums with no use-by-date.

We could listen to it ten years from now and still be amazed by so much beauty.

Here Dr Villalobos puts on the white coat of a rhythmic scientist and distils the beats leaving only the essential; a micro-beats festival accompanied with a latin guitar on Hireklon, ping-pong beats on Serpentin, fantastical chants on True To Myself.

A primitive 37-minute pattern of brass disrupted by two or three trumpet solos.

Here you go. Ricardo finds perpetual motion in immobilism using shrewdly filters and delays.

At the risk of sounding pretentious, the Chilean presents here a mix composed entirely of his own productions, in which he disseminates two patterns of perfection, Andruic Japans and Primer Encuentro Latino-Americano (a track that had leaked a few months before to the great displeasure of Ricardo).

Ricardo Villalobos Alcachofa Rar File Full Session Minimoonstar

Ricardo would dedicate the track Enfants (chants) to him before releasing Vasco on Perlon, first on double vinyl then on album, with the full session Minimoonstar; a misty melody, which embraces the percussions and xylophones, used as bassline.

The next episode would come later in 2012 with Emilio (2 nd Minimoonstar) on the Any Ideas EP.

More than an album.

A philosophy. (The title referring to his emotional dependency rather than to narcotics, you bunch of scamps) A philosophy in which Richard becomes a real introspective and almost forgets that he has an audience.

Dependant And Happy is a schizophrenic album, seeking for rationality in the absurd and back again.

Before that, he strived with Jay Haze to create two EPs in 2004,and notably two tracks: Fenlow and Kick The Verb, and we could not forget to mention Peculiar which samples a vocal of Marvin Gaye, result of the collaboration with Argenis Brito and two completely unknown blokes.

The two partners took the liberty of revisiting the catalog of the jazz label ECM for an electroacoustic odyssey Re: ECM (2011).

Having a Villalobos record in your hand is like having Willy Wonkas Golden Ticket: a ticket for a wonderful world populated by claps, cracks and aquatic bleeps.

What remains is that his realm isnt within easy reach of all and demands complicity on behalf of the listener.