Ricardo Villalobos - Sei Es Drum

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The above is a locked groove that is built into my copy of Andruic. It really drives me insane. The strange thing is that on somedays, the record plays through fine. Then suddently it begins skipping again and I have to plow through the groove backwards with dangerous amounts of pressure on the stylus to correct it.

From a musical perspective, the best word to describe this release is moody. The tracks are sketchy and a bit cracked out. Just when you feel like the songs have tripped over their own two feet, the groove comes back and realigns everything in your mind. This is a good release to own because there's noone else making music this twisted right now. Keep it in your box and pull it out when you're feeling like something different.

Well, there's a lot of pro & contra goin' on for this release.
I have to put myself in the pro corner on this one. I've always liked Villalobos' reduced minimal tracks he's released over the years. I'm not equally excited about all tracks on this doubler but I've played them almost all and they do the trick.
The one that stands out for me on this release has to be 'Druic'.
Overall excellent release in my opinion.

Mr Villalobos is at it again: polarising views with his latest musical outing, eliciting discussions on whether he is the future or demise of "minimal". Seriously, who cares? Not the genius himself. His self-unawareness and indifference shines through these seven quirky, almost demented, tracks that push "minimal" to the shorelines of experimentation.

Threading the pieces together is the commonality of latin-flavoured vocals, but ironically the vocals themselves thwart our efforts to pigeon-hole or understand. They vary from snippets of puzzling conversation (tracks 1, 5) to mantric refrains (tracks 3, 5, 6), to lazy and deliberate off-key singing. Phrases are chopped and trippy words tweaked into dub-like incoherence. The beats and basslines shuffle along, but occasionally break down into glitches and uneven tempos. Percussive tools such as hi-hats and side drums provide a strong counterpoint to the madness, but can also disappear all of a sudden, further unravelling and stripping down the tracks into shreds of barely-together music. What dope!

Music people, you want "minimal"? You got it right here. If you feel like locking yourself up in a mental asylum after (because you keep hearing a guy rapping “Baila Sin Petit” or a woman yelling “Chicken!” or "The goose is cooked!" in your head), then the tracks did their job beautifully. But if you want your minimal without an untidy and gritty side of evolving experimentalism, then maybe minimal isn’t, and never was, for you.

To tell the truth i have hear just few tracks of this new album, i could not stand it after few minutes, i like villalobos music but i dont think his heading into something musically more interesting that he used to do, vocals are a great tool but if are not use properly it may turn into something really loopy/funny tasteless. Think that the tracks i have heard that night with my friends made me think twice about this new wave of german cold and latin flavor music