[Fabric 36] Ricardo Villalobos

[domnugogu]

I dunno, it just looks like extreme self-marketing to me...
It often annoys me to see DJ's putting a lot of their own tracks into a CD release mix, as they seem that they are just trying to promote themselves and use the mix CD for publicity, rather than using the best tracks available to make the best mix possible.
So when EVERY damn track is your own?? That's either an interesting concept, as people here seem to think, or just a major example of cynical marketing.

so you prefer a a mix cd with tracks that you will definitely go out and look for the second you see the tracklist on mnml.nl or any other site. Come september when the cd drops, these tracks will have been whored to death by wanna be's, bedroom/internet radio show dj's, my grandmother, and every other joe. At that point you will be so sick of hearing the same tracks so much that you will deem this mix boring and thats it. Fabric, wanted him to do something and he chose to do it this way, for his reasons. I dont think that "we" should speculate much on the matter, and just enjoy the mix come september.

i think just special people will have these tracks .. not joe & his friends wanna be s ..

[harold_f]

Seriously, I'm sick and tired of the "bomb" and "hits" concept. This had nothing to do with the minimal i was listening to in 1996, where we were much more interested in experimentation and sound exploration. I really and bored and fed up of the hype about hot music. fck that.

but tonight my glass of red wine (my girlfriend came back from a long vacation with her family, so we drunk a glass or two) goes out for those who are fed up with cold, soul- and mindless minimalhype shite.amen, my brother.

amen

[pheek]

exploiting of a genre is what we see most of the time if we look at those "bombs" and "killers". Boring and copying the copy of the copy all way down.

Yeah and people need to wake up and support stuff that is different, that doesnt sound like "i-want-to-make-another-hit-that-last-one-week" kinda track. There's copycats because there's people to support them just like there's spam about viagra because there's dumb people who actually buy from them.

All I will add now is GO Ricardo! We're behind you!

[Fonque]

isn't it the true purpose of listening to mixes that you're getting new records to buy?

very rarely, maybe when i feel to lazy to browse discogs and a online recordstore for sample that i find on my own.the true purpose of mixes is listening to them at the office or in the car or whatever ....

well, I know how to mix records myself, so why should I keep on listening to other people doing that?

[fader]

we are all waiting to hear your first mix-cd

[PsyTox]

kinda like the fact that he's used only own productions... because mix-cd's always have (relatively) old stuff on it due to the fact that everything has to be cleared first etc.
So, yeah, very curious to hear it. Must be great to be able to make a mix-cd for Fabric, and with your own tracks which (obviously) are making sure the mix sounds 100% like you envision it.

And of course Ricardo is a good business man: all the copyright money is for him too :mrgreen:

[prenzlauer]

isn't it the true purpose of listening to mixes that you're getting new records to buy?

very rarely, maybe when i feel to lazy to browse discogs and a online recordstore for sample that i find on my own.the true purpose of mixes is listening to them at the office or in the car or whatever ....

well, I know how to mix records myself, so why should I keep on listening to other people doing that?

That would be true... if you think you're the best dj there is, and you aren't interested in hearing anyone else. So you don't go out and hear dj's either?

[Red Kite]

Yeah, and how are you gonna mix and drive a car at the same time?