VILLALOBOS, RICARDO / LOW ISLAND - RICARDO VILLALOBOS REMIXES LOW ISLAND

Ricardo Villalobos (born 6 August 1970) is a Chilean-born German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres, and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno scene. Life and work Villalobos was born in Chile on 6 August 1970. In 1973 he moved to Germany with his family to escape the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who had seized power that year. When Villalobos was around 10 or 11 he started to play conga and bongos. He began making electronic music in the late 80s. From a very young age he has been a big fan of Depeche Mode, following their tours around Europe to listen to them. Villalobos began to play his music at parties while he was studying at university, but this was only for his own enjoyment. He started a label, Placid Flavour, in 1993 but this was unsuccessful. His first record was released on the German Playhouse label in 1994 and he began DJing as a professional in 1998. In 2006 Villalobos, along with Richie Hawtin and Luciano, played to around 300,000 people at the Berlin Loveparade. At the end of 2008 and 2010, he came first in Resident Advisor's Top 100 DJs of the year. Villalobos has released several records on various notable labels, such as Perlon, Playhouse and ARPIAR. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Formed in Oxford in 2016, Low Island are instinctive shape-shifters, darting between the uplifting electronica and intimate ballads that have characterised their 4 EPs. It was a step that was both deliberate and natural: "there was a euphoria we didn’t always get from indie gigs, but a connection to songs and musicians we felt was missing from club nights". Fiercely independent, and born out a shared musical upbringing encompassing jazz, indie, classical and dance music, theirs is a soundtrack to a 20s scattered with romantic and professional failure; melancholic, but quietly optimistic. Carlos, Jamie, Felix and Jacob follow in the lineage of Oxford artists; tenacious, free-spirited, and with a musical horizon of boundless possibility. In April 2021 they released their debut album, under their own terms, self-managed and on their own label 'Emotional Interference'. To widespread critical acclaim their debut album reached #17 in the Official UK Album Sales Charts. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.