Ricardo Villalobos - Ferenc

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.

Ricardo Villalobos - Das Leben Ist So Anders Ohne Dich

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.

Volkan Akin - Voltage (Villalobos AC DC Remix)

Twisted, growling remix from the king - watch out for the mid-way switch.

Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso

Sometimes tracks take a few years to grow on you, and this certainly has with the waspish strings and the impulsive inserts.

Wolfgang Haffner - Melodia Del Viento (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)

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.

Quilla - A Million Broken Bikes (Ricardo Villalobos & Shaun Reeves 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.

Sun Electric – Toninas (Ricardo Villalobos 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.

Mari Kvien Brunvoll - Everywhere You Go (Villalobos Celestial Voice Resurrection Mix)

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!

Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer – Mas Profundo Que Mis Pies

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.

Senor Coconut – Electrolatino (Ricardo Villalobos Lecktro Carino Mix)

15 minutes of Latin-inspired minimal with this unique sound that is just only describable as a Villalobos sound.

Chris Tietjen & Ricardo Villalobos - TV Watching

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.

Enjoy – Seawall (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

Remember hard house?  If you speed this up 10bpm it sounds like hard minimal.

Just need a touch of imagination, my friends.

Ricardo Villalobos – Hansup

I listened to this minimal beauty for 2 hours consistently when Margaret Thatcher died.  Both Maggie and Ricardo are true heroes of mine, both have had a monumentally positive impact upon my life although for slightly different reasons.  Another complete beauty of epic proportions with a particularly incredibly charming breakdown.  Excellent doorbells too.

Vera & Ricardo Villalobos - Rambutan (Uncut Version)

This is glorious in a feeling ill sat here at my desk doing repititive administration tasks and I feel so floaty and relaxed in 23 minutes of total beauty.  Two truly minimal characters combined to produce an epic DJ going for a poo track.

Ricardo Villalobos – Tu Actitud

Lots of weirdness going on but it all fits together and makes sense somehow in a very Ricardo kind of way, a very charming but odd piece of minimal that I would so love to play one day.

A total delight.

Ricardo Villalobos – I’m Counting

I was doing something incredibly dull and repetitive at work and this took me into another world of squelchyness like a thin layer of custard emitting sweet smells and sounds.

Ricardo Villalobos - Put Your Lips

Unique squidgy minimal from the human delight that is Villalobos.  Fingers crossed Santa brings me his new album of which this is from.

Ricardo Villalobos – Samma

Tripped out minimalism from Ricardo's new album, Dependant And Happy, which I assume will be delivered to me by Santa soon.  Dark and moody like the grey skies of today.

Sterac – Sitting On Clouds (Ricardo Villalobos Sittin On Klaus Remix

It is 19 minutes long.  It is a Ricardo Villalobos remix.  You will probably have already decided whether to press play or not so perhaps it is not worth too much of a description.  Hypnotic beat for 8 minutes.  Magical nothingness for 2 minutes.  Beat for 2 minutes dwindling into half a beat and then not a lot for 3 minutes.  And then yes, wham bam kapow the beat kicks in again.  If you understand it, then congratulations, you have reached a unique and special level of development in life.

Roman Fluegel And Ricardo Villalobos - RiRom Main

I listened to this when I was feeling a little bit down one night (stupid alcohol!) after being let down, and it picked me up, it is dreamy clicky piano-based minimal and a return to form for Ricardo, for my tastes anyway.

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