Chilean born Ricardo Villalobos – for the last three year’s voted world’s #1 DJ in the Resident Advisor Poll - has been, in his words, “raving about ECM in many interviews”. In his club DJ sets he began inserting music of Arvo Pärt and Alexander Knaifel in between the groove-oriented pieces and was encouraged by the enthusiastic response of listeners to go further with the experiment.

Villalobos enlisted the musical support of Max Loderbauer (originally from ECM’s home suburb of Gräfelfing), known for his work with Moritz von Oswald Trio, Chica And The Folder, NSI and Sun Electric, amongst many others) and they began processing ECM recordings into new shapes, with mixing board system and modular synthesizer as principal instruments.

Manfred Eicher was pleased with the duo’s creative response to his productions and gave them carte blanche to carry on experimenting with the ECM titles of their choice in Berlin’s Laika Studio. Eicher subsequently supervised the mastering of “Re:ECM” in Munich, completing a unique sonic experience for ECM listeners, for those just discovering the label, and for Ricardo Villalobos’s many fans around the world