Controversial but Dependent And Happy is my favourite Villalobos album. There is so much undiscovered beauty in it including this spaced out dreamy taxi-beeping New York trip. Even more controversial – the track is less than 5 minutes long.
Tag: Ricardo Villalobos
Dependent And Happy is such an under-rated album, so full of beauty and wonder that it is easy to overlook certain tracks, which for me, this has been an overlooked beauty – full of delicate charm and a gruff German vocal line that I am happy to never know what it means.
Ricardo Villalobos – Das Leben Ist So Anders Ohne Dich
Twisted, growling remix from the king – watch out for the mid-way switch.
Volkan Akin – Voltage (Villalobos AC DC Remix)
Sometimes tracks take a few years to grow on you, and this certainly has with the waspish strings and the impulsive inserts.
Ricardo Villalobos – Sieso
18 minujtes of immense squigliness, by the only man able to make such squigly beats of gorgeousness. Breathing, bits of piano, random snippets of singing, taps dripping and of course, more of those infectious squigly beats.
My number 1 musical inspiration just gets better.
Wolfgang Haffner – Melodia Del Viento (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)
Yet again Ricardo absolutely nails a remix, with the help of Shaun Reeves this time – not an expected combination, a gentle minimal ditty at just 5 minutes long about a load of bikes smashed up by pedestrians pissed off by pavement cyclists, or something like that.
Quilla – A Million Broken Bikes (Ricardo Villalobos & Shaun Reeves Remix)
Have I mentioned Ricardo Villalobos before?
He is just light years ahead of every single music producer I have come across, this is best described as a minimal version of Subtellite, with intricate patterns of sounds, chimes, bleeps and clicks, it is just a delight.
Sun Electric – Toninas (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)
A fairly standard Villalobos squidgy minimal 28 minute track with a hauntingly beautiful vocal used brilliantly, ever so faintly at first but it becomes the soulful centrepiece.
Magical.
There is a 15 minute version for those of you with less patience!
Mari Kvien Brunvoll – Everywhere You Go (Villalobos Celestial Voice Resurrection Mix)
This is mental, on another planet kind of minimal with all the odd sounds, the stripped back beats and assumed-Spanish language adding to the confused brilliance. Don’t try to understand.
Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer – Mas Profundo Que Mis Pies
15 minutes of Latin-inspired minimal with this unique sound that is just only describable as a Villalobos sound.
Senor Coconut – Electrolatino (Ricardo Villalobos Lecktro Carino Mix)
Absolutely beautiful and charming, a track with such a dreamy melodic quality and those really warm, individual beats seemingly unique to Ricardo. A stunning breakdown – would be most fitting for Cocoon closing on the terrace in Ibiza as the last track.
Also a 15 minute version but I actually prefer the shorter one.
Chris Tietjen & Ricardo Villalobos – TV Watching
Remember hard house? If you speed this up 10bpm it sounds like hard minimal.
Just need a touch of imagination, my friends.