“Immersing oneself in the productions of ECM, one learns a lot about the optimum sound experience. We too have the paramount rule of making no compromises where sound is concerned.”- Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer.

“Re: ECM” presents sound-structures by Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer based on ECM recordings by Christian Wallumrød, Alexander Knaifel, John Abercrombie, Miroslav Vitous, Louis Sclavis, Wolfert Brederode, Paul Giger, Enrico Rava/Stefano Bollani/Paul Motian, Arvo Pärt and Bennie Maupin.

Developed and produced at Laika Studio in Berlin in the autumn of 2009, this double album is the outcome of a long engagement with the label’s music on the part of Ricardo Villalobos. The Chilean-born electronic music producer and DJ, a long-time follower of Manfred Eicher’s jazz and new music productions, began experimenting several years ago with the integration of ECM titles into the flow of his DJ-sets in the clubs.

“It started with Arvo Pärt’s ‘Tabula Rasa’ and went on with music of Alexander Knaifel and others”, he recalls. Watching the dancers on the club floor, Villalobos concluded that “if one combines the functionality of reduced electronic structures with the living textures of ECM productions, it ignites new passions on a subliminal level….The most important thing is to harmonize these two worlds, without them aspiring to mutually deactivate each other, to keep both – the organic and the electronic – in balance.”