Ricardo Villalobos interview: Xlr8r.com

Ricardo Villalobos interview: Xlr8r.com

6 November, 2007 | 12.41PM

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: ricardo villalobos

Xlr8r.com has just uploaded an interesting article with Chilean techno DJ and producer Ricardo Villalobos. Here’s some our favourite Ricardo quotes from the article.

1

“Humans are experts in reverbs, it is the one thing we are really experts in; we know if we’re in a kitchen, an elevator, a big hall. Microphone recording lets in this space where the sound was recorded, but with electronic music, it is an effect that is light years behind...It’s impossible to bring into electronic music the space existing in acoustic recording, but we can make field recordings and mix electronic and acoustic music. This is what I try to do constantly.”

2

“Most of the clubs in the world, besides the English and Japanese and some others, the standard is awful; clubs in Germany are awful; there is no freedom.”

3

“At Fabric [club, London] there are sound technicians that run around finding the frequency of the night and deleting feedback, dedicating their time to the music and nothing else. You have to have a lot of people behind it, how to make the room acoustic, put speakers, handle the night, handle the different ears and different destruction of ears. There is so much love in this club.”

4

“We are running in the wrong direction at the moment. MP3 is like offering you an 800-pixel camera as the newest shit. And this is what is happening to sound at the moment.”

5

“I can’t keep the essence if the soundsystem and situation are not perfect. If you are in the big club of 5,000 and you get paid a lot and the club owner is right behind you trying to see if the money was well invested or not then it is a different situation when you are in an incredible club with 200 people and amazing sound. I try to stay in and search for these small situations.”

[source: www.xlr8r.com]

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