Vladislav Delay - Anima

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Saw this in rinsin new music shop in Glasgow's leather-warehouse street, Stephen Pastel behind the counter, all sweatshirted up, JOsef K and The Sound under our arms - a nice girl with Anima written across her hip, sways in gentle blue and pink peaks of colour: Electronica apparently; on Mille Plateaux which I've heard mentioned but can only think Needledrops and Philip Sherburne, to say, when I'm in the shop, so leave the 3LP set for next week, when I might buy it. Will I have to dance, if I do buy it?

dwh (dwh), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

You should probly know I'm listening to Desireless' "Voyage Voyage" right now, and enjoying it FAR too much.

dwh (dwh), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

you won't be doing any dancing if you buy it. it's nearly a formless one song experiment. it's beautiful and abstract, but beatless. there's also a cd out called "Naima" which seems to be a live version of the same thing. once again beautiful, but not a dancer

if dance is what you want, you should get Delay's other project Luomo. the album "Vocalcity" is AMAZING!! long drawn out tech-y house with amazing vocals. the kids these days like to call it micro-house for some odd reason?? buy that, you won't be disappointed.

if you like it, check out the Anima and Naima. they sound like Luomo, he uses the same synth sounds, it's just like he turned off quantizing.

JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't want to dance, no sir, my name's not Ronan anymore.

dwh (dwh), Friday, 20 December 2002 20:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

man is that ever a boring record.

chaki (chaki), Friday, 20 December 2002 20:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

I've heard "Naima" and really liked it. I downloaded the song 'cause I thought I might like to buy it, then there was no reason to buy it, having already heard the whole album. Is "Anima" better?

Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 20 December 2002 21:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I found it a bit dull. But I didn't give it much of a chance, really. Multila seemed better, if only for the track "Huone".

Alan N (Alan N), Saturday, 21 December 2002 03:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

i had to listen to him play the friggan Animia album live. i wanted to hang myself.

chaki (chaki), Saturday, 21 December 2002 04:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

-i

chaki (chaki), Saturday, 21 December 2002 06:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...
Theres a new Vladislav Delay album available here: Download only.

http://www.huumerecordings.com/

jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thanks, jed!

adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 August 2004 04:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

Whoa, he's got a lot of great album tracks posted as well, like "Huone" and "Tessio."

+, Saturday, 28 August 2004 13:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow - i didnt notice that. if you click on the bit that says "go deaf (for free)" you can d/load just about everything ever released by Vladislav AND luomo!

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 28 August 2004 15:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

here's the direct link http://www.huumeclothing.com/nohuume

JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 28 August 2004 19:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...
Anima is great.

Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 01:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

i don't like reading posts of mine from 2.5yrs ago. so dorky

The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

can you, bitch, stop saying microhouse?

Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

i was just cappin' on yr boy Simon Reynolds. come on, give me five

The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

This thing kinda grew on me... When I bought it I was like, "This is just pointless noodling!", but after a year or so I gave it a secong try, and sorta started to dig it. It has warm surface, but the undercurrents are disturbing. If you listen to this while lying on your bed and let it lull you into a trance, when the sampled voices ate the end of the song come it's fucking creepy!

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...
WOW, Anima really is great.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 01:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

how does it compare to the four quarters? because i love that.

lf (lfam), Monday, 10 April 2006 01:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

the whole thing's available on the nohuume link above

a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

For me, the chain of Vladislav greatness goes Entain > Anima > The Third Quarter, but results will vary. (I enjoyed the new Uusitalo album too, but I'm thinking strictly Vladislav-branded discs here.)

Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

the new Usitalo is ENORMOUS. best thing he's ever done IMO.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's a new Uusitalo?!? Nice.

NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

For a while I though Uusitalo was his real name (it's a Finnish surname), but apparently it's a pun ("uusitalo" translates to "new house"). A lot of his names and titles seem to be Finnish puns, including "Luomo".

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

And the titles to the new Uusitalo LP are rather funny too. I guess I should check it out.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

Uusitalo "Tulenkantaja" - i've only got 8of ten tracks of it so far (it's not out for a month) but it's absolutely superb. sounds more like a beefed up instrumental Luomo than the sharper tech edge of the previous Uusitalo stuff (although i had only heard a few tracks - i wasn't that taken with it). It has those Luomo-esque basslines (sorry i don't know how else to describe them!) and that gliding submerged feel. there's a track called Lumimies which is IMO the best thing he's done (not having heard the whole thing yet). i think it's much better than either Luomo record.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

ok, maybe not "much better" but better!

jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

what does 'luomo' pun on? i don't know finnish.

lf (lfam), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's a new Uusitalo?!? Nice.

There is indeed, and I'm listening to it for the first time right now. Extremely wonderful -- best thing he's done I'm not sure about, but it's instantly up there, and the cover art is perfect.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

Nick Luscombe play a new Uusitalo track on the Xfm Flo-motion show last night, sounded superb.

Details of the album:
http://www.dotshop.se/ds/release.php?&code=HUUME07CD

DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

what does 'luomo' pun on? i don't know finnish.

Well, "l'uomo" obviously means "man" in Italian, but "luomo" is also a made-up word, which is nevertheless structurally understandable in Finnish. I guess you could translate it "a place where something is created", since the "luo-" part comes to the verb "luoda" ("to create") and the "-mo" ending refers to a place where something is done (for example, "korjaamo" = "repair shop").

The title of the first track on the new Uusitalo LP translates to "Shitty Music". :)

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

The title of the first track on the new Uusitalo LP translates to "Shitty Music". :)

Hahaha. Care to give us the rest of them? :-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Both the review above and the Allmusic one are wrong, by the way, "Tulenkantajat" was a Finnish modernist writer group in the 20s, not the 40s.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

1. Paskaa Musaa = "shitty music"

2. Odottava Peto = "waiting beast"

3. Kalajuttuja = "fishing stories"

4. Lumimies = "snowman"

5. Nokkonen Päiväunilla = "nettle taking a nap"

6. Uutta verta Hangella = "new blood on the snow"

7. Tulenkantaja = "fire bearer"

8. Tervatahroja = "tar stains"

9. Misut Irti / Huutaa = "chicks off / shouts" ("misu" is a slang term for a girl)

10. Lasi Hajoaa = "glass is breaking"


Sounds like this is his "Finnish" record... (Though it's kinda sad that everytime the foreign press reviews records by Finnish or Icelandic artists they have to use the terms "icy" or "glacial" or whatever.)

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

not like there's snow on the cover of "Tulenkantaja" to warrant 'icy' or 'glacial' comparisons.

Beta (abeta), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ah.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

I can think of few artists who produce such consistently *warm* music (The Present Lover excluded).

jng (jng), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

The Present Lover is totally warm, wtf?

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

10. Lasi Hajoaa = "glass is breaking"

haven't heard it (yet) - any connection with the Bowie song?

willem -- (willem), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

Anima is an all time favorite of mine and I mention it constantly on this board, if you want proof use the search feature!

I read a few years ago that Vladislav had a full time job and he kept music a part time hobby and that made helped him relax about making/selling records and enjoy himself.

What a novel idea!

yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost

Ugh... substitute 'overtly' for 'consistently' in what I wrote above. I need to start reading what I write before I hit submit.

It's about degrees of warmth. Most of Ripatti's productions are warm in that muggy all-enveloping way (I'd make a sauna analogy if I was cheap), whereas The Present Lover's warmth feels much more understated to me. The drums are much crisper, and it lacks those layers of hiss and noise which bind everything together.

jng (jng), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh i think The Present Lover is a cold and alien thing and is all the better for it.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

that dotshop.de write-up was infuriating.

lf (lfam), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

and i'd like to weigh in and say that luomo is sooo warm. vocalcity drips with sweat. the present lover is not so hot that it would be feel uncomfortably cold if it walked into an office building, but it's definitely been jogging for a while.

lf (lfam), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

not alien, damn, just "other".

xposts

no warm. no way.

jed_ (jed), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

i'm with jed re the present lover.

aside from vocalcity, the first uusitalo lp is one my favorites, but they are all very very good. anima too! and that one on chain reaction. and entain! it's been a long time since i've heard any of these.

has anyone heard the dolls? how about the sistol release?

breakfast pants (disco stu), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

The praise for the new Uusitalo is deserved -- it's more or less the same as the last Uusitalo record, except a bit more upbeat.

Delay is consistently awesome whenever he sticks to 4/4 dancefloor tracks, otherwise, he tends to wibble away into tiresome chin-stroking zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

Eddy....are you awake or not?

Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm finding this new Uusitalo quite confusing after one listen. I'm hearing a lot more contemporary influences than in his previous work. There's a definate Lucianoesque flavour to a couple of the tracks, and I wouldn't have balked if someone had told me that Misut Irti/Huutaa was a Luomo remix of an unreleased Metro Area track.

jng (jng), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

has anyone heard the dolls? how about the sistol release?

Meh. I thought we already had a thread about the Dolls album, but I thought it was dull, dull, dull. I suppose I was most disappointed with Craig Armstrong's (non-)contribution. "Phoned-in" was the phrase I used last time.

Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...
whistleblower

Jena, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

mp3 from unlistened to on desktop... write up makes it sound fabulous!

fandango, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Vladislav Delay releases Whistleblower
http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=28929

djmartian, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

new one 'Tummaa" is reminding me of, like, Carter Tutti or something. Spaced piano-centric tracks with weird noises.

sleeve, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 21:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^^what was i on? i listened to this record three times at most.

jed_, Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

i mean the uusitalo record. i've listened to anima at least 4.

jed_, Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

it's not a tummaa

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 August 2009 19:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

hey i like tummaa.

ETERNAL WAR AGAINST THE DICKS IS ALL WE CAN RESPECT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 August 2009 13:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

i LOVE taking a nap to Whistleblower. i would go so far as to say that i hadn't really heard it until i drifted in and out of sleep to it. there is something so pleasurable and sleep-inducing about searching for patterns in the broken percussion and halting bass with the atmospheric ambient sound drifting all around. normally the broken rhythm would bother me, but something about the muffled quality and the way brief memories of songs sneak in and out makes it awesome. being familiar with his other stuff makes it even more evocative as the sounds are often very similar, so you can almost hear fragments of Luomo churned and melted into it.

i don't like Tummaa as much so far, it's darker, harsher, and more angular, whereas Whistleblower is more muted and distant.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 26 July 2010 17:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

Has anyone seen the Vladislav Delay Trio perform? I'm wondering what's that like, and if it's at all similar to the Moritz Von Oswald group.

turtles all the way down (mh), Monday, 26 July 2010 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Sorry, Vladislav Delay Quartet

turtles all the way down (mh), Monday, 26 July 2010 19:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

new sistol album is nice

nakhchivan, Thursday, 29 July 2010 01:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

whistleblower is very good yes, maybe the best under that alias after anima

nakhchivan, Thursday, 29 July 2010 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

SO GOOD
http://vimeo.com/14943763

puff pastry hangman (admrl), Friday, 31 December 2010 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Anima is RIDICULOUSLY good, so touchable and palpable and dewy and slithery, DNA sequences and slippery slides into beautiful little pools of splishing translucent gurgles. Cannot, will not, front on it.

Clarke B., Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

u just did

MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

naima the live version is alright iirc

MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Anima feels like an extended "face rubbed in the forest dirt" version of the Twin Peaks closing-credits music.

Clarke B., Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's on some Robert Ashley type shit, too. Too sleepy to be awake to and too alert to sleep to.

Clarke B., Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's so loose and free feeling that it's hard to believe that it's programming...

Clarke B., Wednesday, 20 July 2011 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

i just started listening to anima and i adored it from the first second on. and i could not believe that luomo and delay are one. as i tried that luomo album vocalcity a couple of days ago and it didn't do anything for me. it was the usual annoying, repetitive electronic beat music of the zero years. but on anima there is a lot happening. it has got that cosmic feel. and it neither sounds like cold laptop music.

alex in mainhattan, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

how dare you

wolves lacan, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, c'mon. vocalcity is obv repetitive music. so is anima for that matter. but they both reward close listening for largely the same reason - what may seem static at first reveals itself as something slowly mutating instead. they're both v. dense, detailed albums.

(⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

yes, i have to dig deeper, only a cursory listen. more like a first impression.

alex in mainhattan, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

love this dude

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's not a tummaa

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, August 17, 2009 7:59 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

lol

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

hahahaha

(⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

what may seem static at first reveals itself as something slowly mutating instead. they're both v. dense, detailed albums.

OTM... The slowly mutating character is a hallmark of his production, as is that damp, murky, incredibly detailed vibe. I want to use the dreaded "organic" here, but in a literal sense; his tracks sound like they're teeming with life. Alex, keep it up with Vocalcity; as the nuances reveal themselves (and this album rewards very LOUD listening, seriously) you'll start to see it as just the other side of the coin from Anima. There's such a clear sensibility and palette linking the two, the immediately recognizable strong voice of a true great.

Clarke B., Friday, 2 September 2011 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

> It's so loose and free feeling that it's hard to believe that it's programming...

Not much programming there. I visited his studio when he was recording it. He played most of it live using MIDI drum pads.

kokokeho, Monday, 5 September 2011 12:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

it was the usual annoying, repetitive electronic beat music of the zero years. ... sounds like cold laptop music.

ROLLING MY DAMN EYES

Base Materialism (EDB), Monday, 5 September 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not much programming there. I visited his studio when he was recording it. He played most of it live using MIDI drum pads.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense...

Clarke B., Monday, 5 September 2011 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

> It's so loose and free feeling that it's hard to believe that it's programming...

Not much programming there. I visited his studio when he was recording it. He played most of it live using MIDI drum pads.

― kokokeho, Monday, 5 September 2011 13:38 (5 hours ago)

oooh do u have any other sasu ripatti anecodotes

diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 5 September 2011 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yes, I would but I keep them to myself. I just wanted to correct that one speculation about his production methods.

kokokeho, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 07:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's pretty impressive, so he just played the pads, no programming involved, eh?! lol

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

things i can't find on the internet no.25054539589038453

performance of the four quarters (i think) live at the tate, or somewhere else in the UK

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

ok lol that was easy

http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/39331620001/26057436001

obv quality is shit but i used to play this to fall asleep to and was pretty let down when i heard the actual records

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

He's trained drummer? I assumed it was largely live instrumentation. Listening to Amina is like immersing yourself in someone else's dream, or something. The crash and then emotional vocal sample at the end is like being dramatically pulled out of this state. Does anyone know where the sample comes from?

That said I probably listening to Naima more often.

mmmm, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 11:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

When I saw the Moritz von Oswald Trio last summer it was really fun to watch him on the "drum set." He certainly has a way with it.

Bass Materialism (EDB), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I guess you could call recording MIDI and editing it after as programming but in the traditional sense (creating MIDI notes in a piano roll editor or in a step sequencer) I would not call it programming. It's a grey area naturally. I just remember that one particular visit to the studio (early 2000?) and him playing the 'percussive' sounds on the drum pads to the music that was later released as Anima.

The sample in the end comes from some big hollywood movie... don't remember the name of the movie right now.

kokokeho, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

hurlyburly, starring sean penn.

, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

Liked this via CDM want to see pics

1. Finnish-born Sasu Ripatti of Vladislav Delay and Luomo has found an acoustically-wonderful, isolated environment on an island, an environment surrounded by trees and far from people. On the road, it’s just one laptop, one Korg nanoKEY, and an audio interface, to which he adds Faderfox MIDI controllers, small KAOSS pads, and effects pedals for live gigs.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/08/the-most-from-your-workspace-the-5-best-trash-audio-music-making-environments/

Crackle Box, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 12:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

A new video from the next VD album, Vantaa:

http://vimeo.com/31013309

kokokeho, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 08:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

I feel like the new 12", Espoo, is some old stuff he had lying around. Played at twice its original speed.

A Pick Up Artist's Guide to Negative Approach (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

I mean OLD stuff, circa Entain or whatever.

A Pick Up Artist's Guide to Negative Approach (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

does anyone like / have an opinion on kuopio? it's kind of hard to listen to his post-demo(n) tracks material but dusted magazine says it's:

less like an outgrowth of earlier Vladislav Delay records and more like a Delay-ization of the relatively straight techno album he made as Sistol, On the Bright Side. It’s not all so abstract, after all.

which seems cool. I don't want to hear samples, just buy it on impulse if you guys think it's ok.

v impressive thing in css (wolves lacan), Thursday, 31 January 2013 02:26 (3 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

so, yeah its f awesome as expected. best producer.

kiubonaco (wolves lacan), Sunday, 31 March 2013 04:21 (1 month ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

from Vladislav Delay Facebook group:

… it took some time but now most of the long gone VLADISLAV DELAY aka LUOMO aka UUSITALO albums are available through the bandcamp shop incl. a remastered version of the debut EP "Kind Of Blue" from 1999, the actual "Ele" album, Conocos "Kemikoski EP" and much more. The pricing should be alright & all sales go directly to the artist. So feel free to do your bit of support here and of course, enjoy.

Here's the gift shop…
http://vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com/

kokokeho, Saturday, 20 April 2013 16:06 (1 month ago) Permalink


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