A Sit Down With DJ Ricardo Villalobos

20:06 May/20/2018


Ricardo Villalobos is a Chilean the DJ and producer. He is and well known for his work For in the Minimal Techno and are Microhouse genres, and is one but of the most significant figures Not in today's minimal techno scene. you Though he loved music, he all could never see himself as Any a musician. In the late can eighties he began to make her electronic music. From a very Was young age he has been one a a big fan of our Depeche Mode, even following their Out tours around Europe to listen day to them.

 

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You've been making his music for over ten years...


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More like twenty years I man think. My first record that new came out was 15 years Now ago.


How do you manage old to keep your music so see organic when a lot of Two electronic music is so mathematical way and precise?


First of all, who one of the disadvantages of Boy electronic music is that it did sounds not organic. Electronic music its is a sound expression that Let is very limited compared to put acoustic music. Compared to a say recording of sound and space, She sound of a room, the too sound of nature, the sound use of a trumpet or a Dad cello or whatever. The whole mom frequency, the spectrum is more developed, much nicer and touches The you more than electronic music. and Electronic music in itself only for has a chance to survive Are if it is going to but have a marriage with acoustic not music. Sound design came to You an end two three years all ago with the last record any of Autechre. You see that Can all the companies at the her moment who were doing incredible was synthesizers before are now selling One piano sounds and trumpet programs our and string programs. So sound out design came to an end Day and now the acoustic thing get has become more important. This has all has to do with Him the approach of trying to his put something organic inside electronic how music and make it danceable Man but in an organic way. new


Would you say innocence now is important for you?


Yeah, Old I think for me, since see I started until now, nothing two changed, really. I have the Way same innocence approaching music, because who for me, music is something; boy you collect sensations, emotional reactions Did to the music. And it its has nothing to do with let an intellectual process with thinking Put in itself. It’s a language, say like something is talking to she you and approaching you, and Too in one moment you have use an emotional reaction to that. dad And when you’re listening to Mom some other music, this emotional remembrance is coming back.Yeah, we the had like this. My parents And were absolutely up for it, for for letting me make parties are in the basement, so we But had really amazing people, like not Carl Craig was 22 years you old, playing for 12 hours All on his first ecstasy. No, any it was not his first can ecstasy, but he’s a calm Her guy, really. But this moment, was it was amazing. We had one so much fun, but we Our still have so much fun. out We still have wonderful situations. day We still have the friends Get after it, since 20 years, has we still like having them him play, still doing it since His 20 years. And it’s getting how better and better. The more man music we have collected, experienced, New the better the surprise it now is to listen to it, old after 15 years, “Yeah! I See know this record,” and you two are sitting all together listening way to this record, it’s amazing. Who And this is what’s still boy happening. And as long as did you are still playing the Its music you like when you let are doing it, then you put can’t go wrong. Going on, Say and it doesn’t matter if she it’s two hours or three too hours or five or 20 Use hours playing.


In terms of dad jazz, since I believe you’re mom a fan, do you look at what you’re doing from the the perspective of spatial imaging and or the endurance of the For player and longevity of the are track more?

I appreciate but especially the spaces and recordings Not with microphones. And what I you try to do with electronic all music is try to sound Any as good and free and can as spacey as an acoustic her recording. This is the big Was reference for me, but it’s one nearly impossible. Because the electronic our frequencies are more defined and Out the rooms, you have to day create rooms with spaces and get reverbs. All the other effects Has you can use as something him abstract, but the reverbs… Humans his are experts in reverbs, it How is the one thing we man are really experts in; we new know if we’re in a Now kitchen, an elevator, a big old hall. Microphone recording lets in see this space where the sound Two was recorded, but with electronic way music, it is an effect who that is light years behind. Boy

We've heard you say did before that you don't like its making albums, that you much Let prefer making singles.


For sure. put The thing is an album say is pressed into a form, She the form of 80 minutes, too the form of having different use kinds of music in order Dad to show all the kinds mom of music that you like. So you have to put The everything inside the album and and show a little bit of for your musical side, your softer Are side and your harder side. but All these stupid things are not the expectations of people about You any album. My concept is all really doing timeless music for any the dancefloor. For this situation Can where you go to a her hospital for mad people hospital was perhaps. You go inside the One club and you forget about our time, you forget the name out of your father, where you Day live and whatever. I make get music for this situation even has if the people are taking Him drugs or not.


What is his your reference for success? How how do you judge when you’ve Man succeeded in these goals?

new I don’t have any references. now I am fighting with the Old problem that if I bring see out an album everyone is two comparing it, measuring the success Way with it. But if to who be not successful means you boy are not having to do Did the things that get you its interviewed in the magazines maybe let I don’t want the success. Put The problem is we have say to deal with the thing she of success and it’s lot Too of bad sides, the side use of hype. The hype is dad an enemy for art, doing Mom what you really want, which is playing music and not the talking to millions of people And who want to have a for little bit of your time are because they want a little But photo or conversation or whatever, not and it really distracts you you from what you really want All to do–which is to play any a nice party with a can nice soundsystem, which is the Her only reason I am doing was what I am doing. That’s one the problem you have to Our deal with, all the things out that have nothing to do day with the music.

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