Re: ECM - Ricardo Villalobos
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  • Summary: Techno artist Ricardo Villalobos and experimental artist Max Loderbauer teamed up to produce music inspired by music label ECM's catalog.
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  1. Oct 6, 2011
    90
    The album is incredibly rich from beginning to end, and totally unpredictable.
  2. Oct 6, 2011
    80
    In Villalobos and Loderbauer's hands, then, the ECM catalogue becomes more than simply a stone set of recorded pieces of music (music as noun) but a further set of tools with which to music (music as verb). Which, although taking Villalobos some distance from his usual club-centric music, remains in spirit with both his and Loderbauer's usual ethos--pushing boundaries, breaking down barriers.
  3. Dec 12, 2011
    80
    The electronic treatments melt lusciously into the acoustic source material and only occasionally ... does dissonant incongruity intrude. [Aug. 2011, p. 106]
  4. Oct 6, 2011
    60
    Too often it becomes mere background music, albeit always pleasant and sometimes even interesting.

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