A Mountain of One - Ricardo Villalobos Reimagines Stars Planets Dust Me (Vicious Charm Recordings)

 

Title: Ricardo Villalobos Reimagines Stars Planets Dust Me 

Artist:  A Mountain of One

Label: Vicious Charm Recordings

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Genre: Tree House

1: Make My Love Grow (Ricardo Villalobos Mix Down)

2: Black Apple Pink Apple (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

3: Dealer  (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

4: Softlanding  (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

Here we have interesting quartet of Villalobos tampered tunes that come from an album chock full of them. ‘Make My Love Grow (Ricardo Villalobos Mix Down) is a slowly unwinding vocal track that glides in and out if the mist of your unconsciousness. It’s relatively short for one of his remixes and, as such, is not what you might expect. There’s no tribal percussion, just a haunting vocal surrounded by what feel like musical shadows. It reminds me of something, someone, but I can’t quite figure out what. We’re on more familiar territory with ‘Black Apple Pink Apple (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)’. Again, the vocal takes centre stage, sitting atop a foundation of familiar Villalobos beats. The insistent percussion goes a little quicker than walking pace and is uniform from start to finish. ‘Dealer  (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)’ is more uptempo and high end; the vocals are dispensed with, save for some misty  harmonies, which results in a tauter, more stretched out piece. Rubbing up against ‘ Black Apple Pink Apple’ in the more laconic groove stakes is ‘Softlanding  (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)’, which employs similar devices, but whose tempo is slightly faster. All four pieces here are typical of Villalobos’ sound design in one way or another: percussion led, vocals toyed with, but still shining and a sense, here at least, of gentle manipulation towards parallel sense of disorientation.