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RICKY STONE
“IT’S FAST, dynamic and super-effi cient, I “I’ve certainly got a lot of Chinese
just feed off that energy,” says Ricky Stone friends!” he laughs.
of Hong Kong, yet similar words could be Which, considering we’re talking about the
used to describe the Sheffi eld-born DJ country with the world’s largest
himself as much as the city he has called population, is clearly a good leg-up when
home for the past six years. it comes to scaling the Top 100 chart.
For whilst Stone arrived in Asia in 2002 as
a proselytising voice for electronic music, But Stone is also making quite a name for
he has since become something of an himself outside of his adopted homeland
evangelist for the Oriental club scene too, largely thanks to his 852 Recordings
itself, establishing himself as probably the label and new sister imprint Flatbelly, an
most infl uential Western-born DJ in the outlet for a more electro-based sound that
region, as his set at the Olympics closing already has Will Bailey and Montero, aka
ceremony in Beijing highlighted. Dee McAuley and Graeme Laverty, on the
“I was lucky to go there just as electronic roster. Not to mention putting out Stone’s
music was fi rst getting started and I’ve own tracks such as ‘Cantonese Woman’ and
seen it grow every year,” he explains. ‘Shanghai Taxi’, which, as the latter’s title
In fact, so beloved is Stone with the Far suggests, show he’s really behind the
East that his gigs further abroad, such as driving seat of China’s club scene.
those on his recent 30-date tour of PAUL CLARKE
America, are regularly packed with as many
Chinese ex-pats as with locals.
First record you ever bought? Grandmaster Flash ‘The Message’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? Me doing daily yoga.
Style: Deep and doggy. Best known for: Turning Asia on its head!
Top gadget of 2008? My PA Hugh Wilson!
Tune of 2008: Ricky Stone & Mikael Jonasson ‘Cantonese Woman’
Your year in fi ve words... Hectic, exciting, confusing, eventful, amazing.
Producer of 2008: Dubfi re
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? Life is short — embrace it!
RICARDO VILLALOBOS
CHILEAN-GERMAN DJ/producer Ricardo First up was ‘Enfants’, the second release
Villalobos is the leading light in European on Sei Es Drum at the start of 2008. Based
minimalism, so it’s no surprise that he on a sample of schoolkids singing in
breaks with convention rather than Spanish, its simplicity, as well as its
following it. While much of the scene that author’s refusal to put the kickdrum in the
his work infl uenced is imploding, Villalobos mix, triggered a whole wave of tracks that
continues to release music that confounds either lifted wholesale samples and worked
and inspires. No matter if you love or hate them to a housey backing — eg, Miss Fitz
his music, everyone has an opinion about and Jay Haze — or which dispensed with a
it. beat, like Patrice Baumel’s ‘The Roar’.
‘Vasco’, on Perlon, released in two
Unsurprisingly, the softly spoken DJ instalments, was his next project.
doesn’t follow the same well mapped out Featuring Baby Ford and Shackleton on
routine as may of his peers. Having remix duties — the latter being payback for
redefi ned the art of the mix CD late last Villalobos’s classic version of the dubstep
year for Fabric, he remains distrustful of producer’s ‘Blood On My Hands’ — it
the internet — he claims to only go online featured a more refl ective sound,
once every month and rarely, if ever, checks highlighting his intuitive ability to craft
his emails – and truly passionate about organic, intricate rhythms with subtle,
vinyl. Indeed, Ricardo’s label Sei Es Drum melancholic sensibilities.
doesn’t release digitally. Finally, he put out the more menacing bass
licks of ‘Akklaa’ as part of a split EP for Sven
While he was as busy as ever as a DJ playing Vath’s Cocoon label.
in every major European city at the
weekends, as well as visiting Montreal and Despite all of this activity, he also signed
Tokyo this year — and avoiding the States SiS’s huge horn track ‘Trompeta’ to Sei Es
as always for political reasons — it was his Drum. No matter what he does next,
releases as much as his masterfully Villalobos is sure to surprise and impress.
meandering sets that won him kudos. RICHARD BROPHY
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