I'm not quite back on the RV train yet, but am now in the mode where I'm at least exploring his back catalog for the last decade or so and would be open to suggestions. Yes, I can see why some people might consider some of it hipster twaddle, but as far as I can tell he's making some of the best music of his career in the last five years or so. At the age of three, in 1973, his family moved to Germany after General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende. if you think he's "fallen off", or is producing uninteresting music, you'd be sadly mistaken, or you just don't like this style of arty minimal house. Villalobos was born in Santiago, Chile on 6th August 1970. but is sounding a lot like "obscure little minimalist hipster jazz loops going nowhere" yet again. a total winner (and almost sounding like a collaboration with Robert Hood.) "Neunachi EP". Intrigued, I explored a few more of his back catalog. Now, let me say that after giving up years ago, I did just check out (and purchase) his "Microgestures" EP, and found it to be a very nice piece of experimental electronic music that gets a strong thumbs up from me. His "Taka Taka" mix on Cocoon from 2003 blew me away and was one of the most impeccably selected mixes I've heard to this day, but for the life of me I can't imagine what anyone gets out of most of his production in the last ten years or so - plinky-plonky, tinkly little little abstract jazzy loop things that go absolutely nowhere. Someone called him "a divider of opinions" and that reflects my own internally contradictory view of him.
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