Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa

Finally available again, this classic electronic album from 2003 that was just voted ALBUM OF THE DECADE by the world's most respected online dance music magazine RESIDENT ADVISOR!

This was ahead of LCD Soundsystem # 5, Daft Punk # 4, Burial #3 and Metro Area #2.

For most, Alcachofa is where Villalobos began. A little known Dj and producer with a few solid tracks to his name in 2003, there were no indications that this release would help change the course of electronic music.

A revelation in both imagination and scope. It was a question: "How out there can we go and still make people dance? And an answer: "This far...for now."

For now meant that there were ever- so -slight concessions to the masses. You could never hear the dessicated voice of 'Easy Lee' nor would things get quite as easy as 'Dexter' in a Villalobos track ever again. But the particular genius of the album is you only realised that these tracks were anthems after you'd listened to them for the second, third or 15th time.

It's a nearly impossible trick , making tracks that kept you dancing but which still give up new secrets each time you hear them. Seven years later, we're still hearing things.

TRACKLIST: 1. Easy Lee (10.06) 2. Y.G.H. (8.16) 3. Bahaha Hahi (7.35) 4. I Try To Live (Can I Live) 5. Waiworin -ao 6. Theogenese (9.19) 7. What You Say Is More Than I Can Say (8.02) 8. Dexter (9.05) 9. Fools Garden (Black Conga) 7.42

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