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Of all the underground DJ-producers who’ve risen to prominence in the last decade, Chile’s Ricardo Villalobos surely inspires the most slavish devotion, creating an almost shamanic aura and an inevitable road-block wherever he appears. Although rightly regarded as a figurehead for the global minimal techno explosion, both his DJ sets and his production work transcend the genre tag, forging a warped realignment of four-four club music that owes as much to modern classical and the indigenous sounds of his homeland as it does to Kraftwerk and Derrick May.
Notorious for inspiring eight to ten hour long mass freakouts on the dancefloor, his own productions are similarly revered and often just as epic, consistently defying cliché to forge oblique excursions into techno’s furthest-flung microcosms.
