Ricardo Villalobos releases 40-minute-long DJ Python remix
“One more tune, yeah?”
Ricardo Villalobos has released a 40-minute-long remix.
Yes, you read that correctly. Minimal techno and microhouse legend Ricardo Villalobos, known for his extended tracks and marathon DJ sets, has released a track that’s a whopping 40 minutes in length.
It’s a remix for DJ Python and Ela Minus’s song Abril Lluvias Mil, originally released on the record label Smuggler’s Way in September 2022. The new remix EP features two tracks – a 13-minute version of Kiss U and, of course, the mammoth Abril Lluvias Mil, both reworked by the Chilean-German music producer.
Listen to the track below:
This 40-minute track is one of the longest yet to be released by Villalobos, coming in just short of the head-scratching 46-minute original track Bionic Sad from 2016. There was also a 28-minute version of Mari Kvien Brunvoll’s Everywhere You Go released in 2014 and a lengthy 18-minute take on Shackleton’s track Blood On My Hands released in 2007.
We thought of other activities you could do at the same time that take around 40 minutes to complete:
- Assemble some IKEA furniture
- Fly to space, hit Earth’s orbit and fly back
- Run 10km
- Clean the house
- Read the chapter of a book
- Cook a delicious meal
- Listen to episode 47 of the My Forever Studio podcast featuring William Orbit
- Write and upload a song (less than 40 minutes)
- Commute to work
“What can I say? It’s a Ricardo Villalobos remix EP!”, Ela Minus has said. US-based DJ Python, when asked about the remix, was also quick to praise the legendary producer. “Villalobos [has been] very meaningful to me since my teenage years,” he said. “[I’m] too honoured to do something like this with him. The Michael Jordan of music to my eyes.”
The remix is out now and can be purchased from Bandcamp. A limited vinyl release of the remix EP will be shipped in July.
