Ricardo Tobar – Our Violence

Label: Musar Recordings – MUSAR015
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP
Country: Netherlands
Released: Sep 17, 2021
Genre: Electronic
Style: Progressive House, Leftfield, Trance

With a discography that started on Border Community and includes the likes of Cocoon and ESP Institute as well as MUSAR, Chilean-based producer Ricardo Tobar's credentials speak for themselves.

His music does, too. Constantly playing with themes of displacement, disorientation and delight in his fusions, ‘Our Violence’ was inspired by the ongoing discussions of cultural appropriation. At its heaviest, on tracks like the Isolee-esque ‘Our Violence’ and S.O.N.S's SYO rolling breakbeat remix of ‘La Femme Aux Masques’, we’re thrust deep into the most hypnotic of dances.

At its most esoteric and experimental, tracks like ‘Mineral’ and ‘La Femme Aux Masques’, we’re taken to places we didn’t even know existed. Places that refuse to accept current formulas or standards and take us outside the box – where MUSAR always loves to be.

A1. Our Violence
A2. La Femme Aux Masques (SYO Summer of Love Remix)
B1. La Femme Aux Masques
B2. Mineral