Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer have just released an album on Germany's ECM label, reworking jazz and classical pieces from the legendary imprint's vast catalogue. zero" met up with the two idiosyncratic producers to talk about the project, music cultures, and how they spent their last weekend.

Founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, ECM (short for Edition of Contemporary Music) is one of the world's leading labels in the field of modern jazz and contemporary classical music. Well over one thousand albums have been released on the Munich-based imprint over the course of more than four decades by...

Richie Hawtin's Minus label releases Ali Demirel's documentary of the imprint's massive 10th anniversary tour. The 'MAKING CONTAKT' movie and soundtrack are now available for digital download from zero".

In 2008 the Minus bandwagon embarked on a tour of proportions previously unheard of in electronic music. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Richie Hawtin's genre-defining label, the CONTAKT tour visited nine cities on three continents over the course of a year. The exceptional series of events not only featured the label's most prominent artists, such as Magda, Troy Pierce, Marc Houle, Heartthrob...