Vladislav Delay

Infobox musical artist
Name = Vladislav Delay


Img_capt = Ripatti performing as Luomo in Detroit in 2004
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Sasu Ripatti
Alias = Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo, Conoco
Born = 1976
Died =
Origin = Oulu, Finland
Instrument =
Genre = Electronica Dub Experimental techno Microsound, Microhouse
Occupation = Record producer
Years_active =
Label = Force Tracks Chain Reaction Mille Plateaux Resopal Sigma Editions
Associated_acts =
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Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco.

Background

Sasu has been involved in the ambient music, glitch, house, and techno genres. His method of track production involves a mixture of synthesizing, vocal recording and live reprocessing. Many tracks have an organic feeling that pervades through rolling, dubby basslines and vocal snippets. His partner is Antye Greie, with whom he has collaborated. Their daughter was born in 2006.

Sasu has released EPs and albums on labels such as Force Tracks, Chain Reaction, Mille Plateaux, Resopal, and Sigma Editions.

He also founded the Finnish music label Huume Recordings.

"Vocalcity" (2000) features Luomo's quasi-anthem "Tessio".

Ripatti's music is renowned for its sophisticated textural qualities. His sonic approach relies heavily on a semi-random element, and many undulating, complementary and sometimes conflicting layers interplay throughout most of his music. A de-constructive element is sometimes detected within the music as Ripatti makes comment on established genres within his various releases.

Characteristic traits within Ripatti's music are sometimes a deep or bubbling synth-bass line, fractured and syncopated percussion - often placed freely within the music, long delay repetitions of various sounds, syncopated use of vocal samples, and complicated digital effect processing techniques. Generally, the music has a very spacious and organic sound, and albums such as "Anima" feature a very simple theme repeated with an array of musical and rhythmical interjections.

Vladislav Delay and Uusitalo musical releases have both shifted in sonic quality over the years; this may be due to Ripatti's different composition techniques. For example, Vapaa Muurari (2000) made use of little traditional techno-style rhythms; instead, the beats and rhythmic themes took a more secondary role to the chordal and textural qualities of the music. However, Karhunainen (2007) makes much more use of regular techno-style beats, and offers less textural and sonic-landscape type features. Overall, a shift of focus from timbrel features to more rhythmic and traditional bass riffing seems to have occurred since 2000 until the present day.

Sasu Ripatti often references himself within his music. The "Vapaa Muurari" album, for example, has an instrumental track ("Social Selection") that was re-mixed or re-recorded as the track "The Right Wing" on the "Vocalcity" album. Similarly, the track "Tessio" on the "Vocalcity" album was re-recorded for the "Present Lover" album in 2003.

Discography

Albums

As Vladislav Delay

*"Ele" (1999)
*"Entain" (2000)
*"Multila" (2000)
*"Anima" (2001)
*"Naima" (2002)
*"Demo(n) Cuts EP" (2004)
*"Demo(n) Tracks" (2004)
*"The Four Quarters" (2005)
*"Whistleblower" (2007)

As Sistol

*"Sistol" (1999)

As Uusitalo

*"Vapaa Muurari" (2000)
*"Tulenkantaja" (2006)
*"Karhunainen" (2007)

As Luomo

*"Vocalcity" (2000)
*"The Present Lover" (2003)
*"The Kick" (2004), with Domenico Ferrari
*"Paper Tigers" (2006)
*"Convivial" (2008)

As AGF/Delay

*"Explode" (2005), with Antye Greie

As The Dolls

*"The Dolls" (2005) with Antye Greie and Craig Armstrong

ingles

*"The Kind of Blue EP" (1997)
*"Huone" (1999)
*"Helsinki/Suomi" (1999)
*"Ranta" (2000)
*"Kemikoski" (2000), as Conoco
*"Livingston" (2000), as Luomo
*"Native" (2000), as Luomo
*"Carter" (2001), as Luomo
*"Tessio (Remixes)" (2001), as Luomo
*"Diskonize Me" (2002), as Luomo
*"Tessio 2003" (2003), as Luomo
*"Waltz For Your Eyes" (2003), as Luomo
*"Running Away" (2003), as Luomo, with Raz Ohara
*"What's Good" (2004), as Luomo
*"The Kick" (2004), as Luomo, with Domenico Ferrari
*"Demo(n) Cuts EP" (2004)
*"Really Don't Mind" (2006), as Luomo

External links

* [http://www.huumeclothing.com/accidents Huume Recordings] - Ripatti's website
* [http://www.365mag.com/index.php?pg=murw&recnum=2447&Title=Luomo+%2F+Huume+Recordings+%2F+Paper+Tigers+on+365Mag+International+Music+Magazine ] Paper Tigers Album review by Thijsjan Meindertsma
* [http://uhfest.underground.hu/mp3/Luomo_Live_at_Ultrahang_Fest_27.09.03.mp3 Live at Ultrahang] - [http://uhfest.underground.hu/ Ultrahang Fest] (2003, Budapest-Szeged)