Episode 7: The Cult of Ricardo Villalobos with Sven von Thülen

For a few years, Ricardo Villalobos was the face of minimal techno and house in Germany. While he’s perhaps best known for his lengthy, freewheeling DJ sets – which were just as likely to include free jazz as they were pumping techno – Villalobos’ high water mark in terms of production came with “Dexter.” On this episode of Berlin Zwanzig, music journalist Sven von Thülen joins Vivian Host to discuss the cult of Villalobos and this celebrated track, which appeared on his Playhouse-released albu

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The history of Berlin music in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s is well documented. Punk, new wave, acid house; the fall of the Berlin wall and the stellar rise of techno. By the end of the millennium, more than a million people raved at the infamous Love Parade events every year. Dance music had arrived. But then what happened? Who are the people and what are the sounds that shaped the Berlin we know today? To celebrate 20 years of Red Bull Music Academy, Berlin Zwanzig – “Berlin Twenty” in English – explores 20 songs that have defined Berlin’s musical landscape from 1998 to 2018, by way of interviews between Red Bull Radio’s Vivian Host and the artists, journalists and scene stalwarts who bore witness to this fertile period in the city’s musical history.