Zero Set II: Reconstruct Part 1 By Ricardo Villalobos vinyl

Following his recent appearance on DFA, Ricardo Villalobos turns in a suitably epic remix for Endless Flight in the first of two Moebius & Neumeier retweak twelve inches from the Japanese label. To set the scene, Dieter .Cluster' Moebius & Manfred .Guru Guru' Neumeier collaborated with Kraftwerk drummer Conny Plank in 1983 on Zero Set, an album of lean electronic experimentalism. A subsequent Zero Set album from Moebius & Neumeier was recorded in 2007 as tribute to Plank who had passed away some 20 years earlier. And whilst the first album has been treated to several reissues over the years, a blanket of rarity cloaks the second album, with it not being readily available outside of Japan, thus rendering a comparison of the album version of "Mango Solo" and Villalobos' epic reworking somewhat impossible. Clocking in at nearly 34 minutes over two sides of vinyl, this is classic Villalobos built around fluttering percussion, breathy discordant textures and the repetition of "one, two, three".

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