VINYL FORMAT. Double 12" with over 50 minutes of music. "Minimal techno is generally said to be pointillistic in nature. But Ricardo Villalobos' new EP for Cadenza turns its attention to the importance of the line -- not the dots, but the connect. Not the pinpricks, but the thread. Since his epics like 'Easy Lee' and 'Black Conga,' Villalobos has kept stretching out his music, and these songs are longer than ever -- meandering in ever-widening circles, opening up like blossoms from the necks of blossoms, like Terry Gilliam's animated flower in the intro to Monty Python.