Ricardo Villalobos

Ricardo Villalobos

Villalobos was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. However, at the age of three he moved to Germany with his family after General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of [a1647608] in 1973.

While active as a DJ and musician through the mid and late 1990s, Villalobos is best associated with his contributions to the development of microhouse and minimal techno in the early 2000s.

He has performed routinely at Omen (Frankfurt), E-Werk (Berlin), Ultraschall (Munich), Aufschwung Ost (Kassel) and Ostgut / Panoramabar (Berlin), and was a resident DJ of Omen, The Box (Frankfurt) and Cafe Kesselhaus (Darmstadt), as well as Cocoon night in Ibiza, together with [a=Sven Väth] and long-time friend [a=Richie Hawtin].

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