Ricardo Tobar

Ricardo Tobar (Border Community, Traum Schallplatten)

Ricardo Tobar hails from the seaside town of Viña del Mar in Chile. From there he
is making waves across the world with his loveable brand of intensely melodic electronic music.
His first vinyl calling card to be released into the world was his Agoria and James
Holden supported debut 12” ‘El Sunset’ on Border Community. The haunting, spine-
tingling ‘El Sunset’ came backed with the equally striking electronic-rock bombast of
the newgazey ‘Made’ and the cascading melodies of ‘Tickets’: a neat snapshot of
Ricardo’s musical diversity. A second EP of music which you can dance to awaits
imminent release on Border Community in 2008, continuing Ricardo’s mission to
fuse noisy genre-busters with heady, uplifting new-shoegaze.
Enviably unfettered by the minimal spell which has currently entranced the world’s
dancefloors, Ricardo’s own influences come from a less predictable place, joining
the unlikely dots between Goa trance and the UK shoegaze movement. Identifying a
common atmospheric feel in the two seemingly disparate genres and combining this
with his own overriding love of melody has given birth to Ricardo’s own sound:
sometimes warm and fuzzy, sometimes devastating on the dancefloor, and always
intensely musical.

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