Ricardo Villalobos

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Ricardo Villalobos at a performance in 2009

Ricardo Villalobos (born August 6, 1970 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Berlin DJ and musician with a Chilean father and a German mother, who is known for his own cross-genre mix of styles of house , techno , minimal techno and South American percussive sounds.

Life

Ricardo Villalobos has both German and Chilean citizenship. He came to Germany as a toddler after his parents had to leave Chile as a result of the military coup . The family settled in Seeheim-Jugenheim in Hesse . Villalobos got enthusiastic about music from an early age. According to him, his father was an important role model and mentor for him, through him he got to know many styles of music: Salsa , which is valued by family friends , but also rock and electronic music. As a teenager he learned to drum with congas and played live at dance events of friends of his father who ran an event agency. It was also his father who took 15-year-old Ricardo to the then popular “ Dorian Gray ” disco at Frankfurt Airport for the first time .

In 1988 Ricardo stood behind the desk of a disco as a DJ for the first time , after he had already played at several school and basement parties. Back then he was enthusiastic about Depeche Mode and also began to record his own music in their style. At the beginning of the 1990s, Villalobos approached the emerging acid house , which should now shape his DJ sets and his own recordings. In 1992 he made his debut with a maxi single on the "Overload" label and organized illegal techno parties that were supposed to make him known nationwide. His own labels "Elastic Music" and "Placid Flavor", which were also founded at this time, were unsuccessful and were soon discontinued.

In 1994 he was invited by the makers of the Ongaku label to DJ during a major festival during the solar eclipse in Chile. This made Villalobos known in his old homeland, where he was to play regularly in the future, especially during the German winter months. In 1995 he became resident DJ in the Frankfurt "Box", later also in the legendary " Omen ". Later there were numerous appearances in the well-known Stammheim Kassel . Further record releases followed. In 1997 he began regularly in clubs on Ibiza hang up, where he later than 1999, the " Cocoon Clubbing -Events" of Sven Vath , which originated in Frankfurt techno club U60311 have, and as resident DJ & Green Blue first in the Rise of national DJs.

In summer 2003 his mix CD "Taka Taka" was released. In the autumn of 2003 Villalobos presented their own album "Alcachofa" for the first time on Playhouse , which received a consistently positive response from the press. At the beginning of 2005 his second album followed under the name "Thé au Harem d'Archimède" on Perlon . Ricardo Villalobos' own productions cannot be assigned to any clear genre. Influences from acid house and minimalism can be found on his albums as well as South American and Balearic echoes. In autumn 2006 Villalobos caused a sensation with the release of the 37-minute long track "Fizheuer Zieheuer". British music critic Simon Reynolds named "Fizheuer Zieheuer" and "Dexter" as evidence of his assessment of Villalobos as one of the few musicians who pushed electronic dance music further into new areas in a time of general consolidation.

Villalobos also founded the “Narod Niki” project, in which eight well-known DJ greats play live sets using only their laptops , including Richie Hawtin , with whom Villalobos has worked repeatedly since he began his DJ work on Ibiza. He is now based in Berlin, is married and has two children.

In 2007 he founded the label "Be it drum", on which the album of the same name was released in November.

On September 5, 2008, Villalobos took part in the film project “ 24h Berlin ”, the result of which was broadcast on television a year later. Romuald Karmakar's documentation shows him from the 7 pm chapter first in his studio, where he is working on the “dramaturgy of the night”, and then at a performance in the Panorama Bar in Berghain .

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 2003: Alcachofa ( Playhouse )
  • 2004: Thé au Harem d'Archimède ( Perlon )
  • 2006: Salvador (compilation album, Frisbee Tracks)
  • 2007: Be It Drum (Be It Drum)
  • 2008: Vasco (Perlon)
  • 2011: Re: ECM (with Max Loderbauer , ECM Records )
  • 2012: Dependent and Happy (Vinyl) (Perlon)
  • 2017: Empirical House (Vinyl) ([a: rpia: r])

Mix CDs

Singles and EPs

  • 1993: Sinus Poetry EP (Placid Flavor)
  • 1995: The Contempt ( Ladomat 2000 )
  • 1996: N-DRA (radio play music)
  • 1998: Salvador (Frisbee Tracks)
  • 1998: Heike (Lo-Fi Stereo)
  • 1999: Pino Jet Explosion (Frisbee Tracks)
  • 1999: 808 The Bassqueen (Lo-Fi Stereo)
  • 1999: Frank Mueller melodrama (Perlon)
  • 2000: Luna (Playhouse)
  • 2000: Ibiza99 (Playhouse)
  • 2000: Que Belle Epoque (Frisbee Tracks)
  • 2001: Bredow / Damm3 (Perlon)
  • 2002: Halma (Playhouse)
  • 2003: Alcachofa Tools (Playhouse)
  • 2004: Alcachofa Remixes (Playhouse)
  • 2005: Achso (Cadenza)
  • 2005: Chromosul (Perlon)
  • 2006: What's Wrong My Friends? (Perlon)
  • 2006: Fizheuer Zieheuer (Playhouse)
  • 2008: Enfants (Be It Drum)
  • 2012: Any Ideas (Perlon)
  • 2012: Baby EP (space ... music)

Documentary by Romuald Karmakar

  • 2017: I think of Germany at night , director Romuald Karmakar [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Puente: Entrevista a Ricardo Villalobos . February 22, 2002 ( clubbingspain.com [accessed November 19, 2018]): “Si, tuve que abandonar Chile debido al golpe militar de 1973. Mi madre es alemana pero vivió siempre en Chile. Tengo la doble nacionalidad. "
  2. ↑ Theresa Brehm: DJ Ricardo Villalobos - The Man They Called God. www.faz.net, May 17, 2010, accessed March 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Simon Reynolds: Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture . Soft Skull Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59376-477-7 ( google.com [accessed November 19, 2018]).
  4. ^ Stephan Loichinger: Club scene: The player. In: fr-online.de. July 4, 2011, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Interview with Ricardo Villalobos at tip-berlin.de, accessed on January 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Villalobos, Ricardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Villalobos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German techno DJ and producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile