Vladislav Delay - Anima

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.

http://www.huumerecordings.com/

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.

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

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". :)

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

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.)

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

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!

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.

xposts

no warm. no way.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

it's not a tummaa

hey i like tummaa.

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.

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.

Sorry, Vladislav Delay Quartet

new sistol album is nice

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

SO GOOD
http://vimeo.com/14943763

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.

u just did

naima the live version is alright iirc

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

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

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

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.

how dare you

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.

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

love this dude

it's not a tummaa

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

lol

hahahaha

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.

> 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.

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

ROLLING MY DAMN EYES

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...

> 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

hurlyburly, starring sean penn.

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/

A new video from the next VD album, Vantaa:

http://vimeo.com/31013309

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

I mean OLD stuff, circa Entain or whatever.

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.

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

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/

Anyone have any feedback on the new Vladislav Delay called 'Visa'?

^ makes for great comet landing music fwiw

lovely

Old skool glitch ambient I didn't think I'd need in 2014, but I really dig it. Reminds me of O'Rourke's "I'm happy and I'm singing..." quite a bit.

Just came back from my radio show we're we played 'Vihollinen' just after new Lawrence English. Brilliant album, his best since Anima.

If you don't mind me asking, what radio show is that?

It's a little show called 'Sterrenplaten' (only in Dutch) for a Belgian college radio station 'Radio Scorpio'.
Main theme is current releases and upgoming gigs rather than genre (very ILM influenced obv). Broadcast is Friday night, but we already pre-recorded this afternoon since Perfume Genius is visiting my hometown tomorrow.

I think it's ok to share the playlist already:

*Ariel Pink - Plastic Raincoats In The Pig Parade [Pom Pom]
*Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans From Venus [Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972]
*Bob Dylan & The Band - I'm Your Teenage Prayer [Complete Basement tapes]
*Ought - Pill [Once More With Feeling EP] (20/11, AB - Brussel (+Viet Cong), tickets)
*Dans Dans - Htes To Vradi Sto Teke Mas [III] (18/11, Stuk - Leuven, tickets)
*Lubomyr Melnyk - Pockets Of Light [Corollaries] (20/11, Stuk - Leuven (+James Blackshaw), tickets)
*Grouper - Clearing [Ruins]
*Eyvind Kang - Monadology [Visible Breath] (16/11, Zuiderpershuis Antwerpen)
*Lawrence English - Hapless Gatherer [Wilderness Of Mirrors]
*Vladislav Delay - Vihollinen [Visa]
*Lowcommittee - 1943 [Race at Neon Club] (VLEK17, exclusief 1/12)

Ty, found the station online, will have a listen!

Allrighty. Uploading every week on www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten a couple of days after the show.

Visa is excellent and definitely a refinement/return to form

the track "Huone".
― original bgm, Friday, December 20, 2002 10:11 PM (thirteen years ago)

otm

ok how the hell did I miss that VD has collaborated on a couple film soundtracks

explode w/agf is all time

caught his show last night w/agf doing the visuals

vladislav delay has kind of gone noize? a lot harder than some previous shows, and I caught a couple tracks from the recent ep mid-set. when I get to somewhere to upload/edit I might have some pics & video

nice!

I was just thinking about this dude. He rules. Midwest cassette label noise or Mego noise? Tbh either works for me.

hmm probably closer to mego? definitely some harsh noise wall with clipping - of the filter variety, not the max-out-the-eq variety

https://vimeo.com/372831563

clip from said show

I need to go to Unsound next year

post around these parts if you do! I may be back

if you don’t mind me asking, what country are you in?

Amerikkka

oh, hi there

https://boomkat.com/products/rakka

yay

https://xlr8r.com/features/in-the-studio-vladislav-delay/

shivers: "I really wanted to apply a physical kind of pressure on the album, to make the sounds dead, and to just really kill all extra stuff, melodies and harmonies."

wouldn't mind if he put a physical kind of pressure on me tbqf

I’ve been tempted to make a version of this meme with sasu/agf but I thought the audience would be limited https://66.media.tumblr.com/033ff64dcc603f800149854070318efb/tumblr_inline_oavnicJGUj1shva7d_540.png

Haha. Good interview, although now I have a lot of questions about how they make money (besides having sold a bunch of gear). Maybe in Finland you can just hang out, hike, do yoga, and make music.

(although it looks like he's done some soundtrack and production work that wasn't mentioned)

i didn't see it there, but maybe in another recent interview he mentioned something about his wife working? i seem to recall

Also I love the way his upcoming record sounds in my head, but I'm guessing it will not actually sound like that in reality

fantastic news

happy Rakka day

!!

i haven't anticipated an album this much in a while

sounds just as good in track form as it did live!

bracing stuff, love it. wish I could listen to it really loud in the open air.

yes, it's awesome, exactly what i'd hoped for based on the live clip

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/vladislav-delay-rakka/

thought this was a great review of a great album

fucking love this album so far (one track in lol!) but this is just what I need right now.

talked myself out of, and then immediately back into, buying the Multila remaster/release recently

Christ, this is like being left out in the gritty, bitter wind, stripped naked, staked to the permafrost.

Ha, yeah :) With my face frozen to the ice and a malicious cold snow storm on the way all I'm thinking is: it's fucking great that he's back. And is sounding so immediate in his iso/desolation. Love this.

the first track is absolute killer.

It's all killer! It just goes on and on. Mind and vein sweeper, this.

some real Mika Vainio spirit in this album, I love it.

some of this even sounds like death metal, but in a good way!

xp Yes I'm definitely hearing the spirit of Pan Sonic moving through this.

everyone itt is correct about this amazing record

some of this even sounds like death metal, but in a good way!

― calzino, Friday, March 6, 2020 3:33 AM (seven hours ago)

Yeah the track raataja I described to a friend as "OPN meets double bass pounding death metal? Punishing yet hypnotic and futuristic."

someone on twitter posted something about consuming things that feel like a soul hug from the universe, and i stopped myself from replying that ACTUALLY the new Vlad Delay is probably what a soul hug from the universe would feel like. i am posting it here instead.

That someone would be naxuu, a good soul. And I agree.

^^ have they ever posted to ilx? i follow them on twitter and know they’re on another site I occasionally frequent

As far as I know, no, but I've gotten know naxuu rather well over the past few years -- a good soul as mentioned, very thoughtful and grounded. Just had dinner with him on Monday.

Bring him to a fap!

It'll happen!

Well then. This isn't what I was expecting at all. And it rules.

i'm blasting this thing outdoors, pines all over, in a really hot afternoon, and it keeps delivering this sense of some telluric wildfire arriving, idk

New album 500-Push-Up with Sly & Robbie in May.
Clips sound fantastic

Oh wow! He may live as a recluse in the icy woods now, he sure hasn't retired. I'm so glad he's back.

I feel like the recluse angle got overly played up in a couple interviews where they also mentioned he's been doing soundtracks for television. That last collaboration album w/Sly & Robbie was in 2018!

I guess the difference between retired and active is whether you do interviews and play concerts

yes this album tbh rocks

re: rakka obv

agreed

i did not expect to be knocked on my ass like this, yet here i am knocked on my ass

hi roxy! rakka very much in full blast mode for sure

for anyone not following the luomo thread that enjoys that SR project as well, there's a remaster/rerelease of Vocalcity on vinyl and digital right now, too

I haven't delved too deeply into them yet, but they're definitely louder/more compressed, so depending on what else has been done, results may vary. very skilled people worked on both, though (shout out to Dubplates & Mastering)

Dear Listener,

i'm going to try something different this time and offer a subscription service.
I want to try and see if it could be a valid model for the both of us, the creator and the listener.

I have been contemplating this for a long time but now due to covid and all the concerts cancelled at least until the end of the year there's no more holding back. Basically i'm trying to establish some sort of income from making music. There's also a fact that i can't release all the material i produce, i already have a backlog of several albums and have to wait and sit on them until labels can release them.

I'm going to offer exclusive material to subscribers that will not be released in any other way, as well as material that might be later on released for the public. There's also a certain amount of old stuff i have never released which will be selectively released to subscribers. I'm also thinking of including other material that would be interesting to listen to, like collections of loops i have been working on, remixes of existing tracks, bootlegs or else. I'm especially keen on trying the loops concept as i myself like to listen to them a lot once i get a good one going. Just to be clear, these loops are not production material for you, it's only for listening. It's pre-production material for my forthcoming solo works. "Rakka" album was mostly made with such loops.

I will want to continue with "no fillers" mentality that i have always tried to adhere to my productions, but at the same time open a door to and share parts of the process and even failures in my productions.

If you ever only listened to Luomo material then i think this will not be for you.
The material will be mainly Vladislav Delay kind of stuff but there will be other more rhythmic things happening as well. I'm already working on a next Ripatti album material which is certainly geared more towards club/beats orientation and there will be other more rhythmic things happening as well.
What i'm not going to do is vocal house ;)

The subscription costs 10€ or more per month and includes all my back catalogue as well as all the new works that i'm releasing on Bandcamp in the future. Additionally, and maybe more interestingly, there will be new material i release monthly exclusively to subscribers. New content will be released in the beginning of each month.

i know this is a substantial amount of money in the long run and i'm going to do give it a real effort to make it worth your while. Obviously you can vote with your money or otherwise tell me if there's something missing or you wish something to be changed, added, etc.

I hope this all sounds good to you as a listener. it'd be great to establish a way i could keep on producing music while making the ends meet, and you could keep enjoying a wider range of my productions. Your support is greatly and truly appreciated. Let's make this happen!

Sincerely,
Sasu Ripatti
– Vladislav Delay

Went back to Rakka, I find it really compelling but it also hasn't really clicked, I feel like there's an internal logic to the tracks that I'm not getting yet. The first track has a really interesting evolution as a fast percussive attack is gradually overwhelmed by the elements around it, remerging later after what sound like ruptures in the surface of the track ... but I only managed that through intensive, and actually exhausting listening. I feel like it would be easier if I could blast it really loud, but, roommates/pandemic ...

Side note, and I should really start this conversation somewhere else, but I have no idea how you music critics evaluate works on a deadline. Lots of albums take forever for me to form an opinion of.

well, they're wrong a lot

I have yet to catch up with all the material, but mr. ripatti’s bandcamp subscription has had a few interesting experiments and a jazz mix I have yet to delve into

Has anyone heard the Sly & Robbie one?

Sly and Robbie collaboration is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7LWmYH6bFxb2Ja7RTPdZ2y?si=YA58WAUiTumNzN6G1eekVw

I’ve listened to the older one w/Nils Petter Molvær but only one track from the new one w/just Sly & Robbie

this album is sick. noize dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzjSMFGJx_8

otm, listened yesterday after I was reminded it exists and it was great!

Yeah, the Sly & Robbie album is great.

great summer album for a terrible summer

I found it kinda gruelling. Will go back when I feel a bit more robust. Fwiw, I loved Nordub.

Interesting, I like it more than Nordub. It's exactly what I was hoping for - strange, cavernous dub.

yup, it's exactly what you'd want given the players involved

really pissing my neighbour off with this tonight, good one for blasting out - it sounds fantastic on my first listen.

I like Nordub, but this is more out of the comfort zone and all the better for it.

great album with sly & robbie!

the VD bandcamp sub is a little pricey but i like everything he's put up i think.

love the sly & robbie collab too. between this and rakka and the bandcamp stuff, productive year

Rakka II is on its way!

The album is described by Ripatti as “a romantic summer vision full of hope and optimism.” Listen to the new song “Rakkn” from the album below; scroll down for an album trailer

Into my veins please lol

yes, yes, yes

good news!

Loving "Rakkn"

FWIW

Listening to the forthcoming Vladislav Delay album, "Rakka II”. It is described as a "a romantic summer vision”, I must say it does not sound like how I think about summer, but it is a very strong release, and has that unique and powerful touch that Ripatti always brings.

— Chris SSG (@mnmlssgs) March 2, 2021

Yeah that description is pretty lol. Very Midsommar, maybe.

(I like VD, although I'm only familiar with parts of his catalog, but I can't really roll with this new approach. Respect though.)

lol

Lol, yeah. It's pretty clear VD is tongue in cheek here, but I certainly could see "Rakka II" being a more, dare I say it, "tender" record than its predecessor.

There was some discussion about "aggressive/abbrasive ambient" on some other thread. I can see 'Rakka' qualifies, but I do not experience the record (my aoty of 2020) as aggressive full stop. It's sonic purification for me, a ritualistic cleansing* of the heart and mind where every time I give myself over to it, I come out feeling tranquil, like rarely any record has ever done for me.

* ok this might veer into Midsommar terrain ;)

I saw Rakka as a live show first, which definitely colored my experience

sounds like my kind of romantic summer vision tbh

I like Rakka II better than the OG. This is great stuff.

I am curious for people’s thoughts on Anima. I found a used CD copy for $3 recently and thought I’d try it out. I’m.. not sure how to interpret it! I like it, but it’s not exactly easy listening.

I think it *makes sense* though? Like it touches some sort of emotion or feeling that I can’t describe. It definitely makes me want to listen to his other stuff tho that’s for sure

it’s super architectural, it makes me think of a constantly changing 3D rendering of a skyscraper or something.. like the best of ripatti’s stuff it has that feel of gods playing dice games/Jenga with large astronomical objects

I have found most of his stuff really hard to listen to since…. Four Quarters? So much clanging and stuff lol

nothing this guy has ever done under any name has ever really spoken to me *except* his rhythm & sound remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwUzOWLXXUk

surprisingly (to me anyway) a lot of vladislav delay : rhythm & sound fans don’t seem to like that track!

The Rhythm and Sound remix rules. It's one of the better remixes on that album.

Anima is one of my favorite VD releases. The sample from Eyes Wide Shut sent me into bliss on my first listen. I love the wandering shapelessness. Several summers ago, after working on music in the studio until 4am, my phone happened to play the title track on random as my friend and I shared a joint in the car. He had never heard it, and we sat and listened to the entire piece. It's always nice when your musical passenger says, "no, don't change it."

it’s super architectural, it makes me think of a constantly changing 3D rendering of a skyscraper or something.. like the best of ripatti’s stuff it has that feel of gods playing dice games/Jenga with large astronomical objects

i love this description of it, totally nails it

I don't know that I've ever truly loved an album of his, but I do love a lot of music he's had a hand in - that Nordub album with Sly & Robbie is kind of a miracle, Moritz von Oswald Trio, and the Mirel Wagner album he produced (with an appropriately light touch).

Luomo:

https://vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com/album/talovahti

techno!

https://vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com/album/rent-seeking-missile