Vladislav Delay

Vladislav Delay

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. He 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.

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".

In 2006 Delay's partner Antye Greie gave birth to the couple's daughter.

Ripatti's music is renowned for its sophisticated textural qualities. His sonic approach relies heavily on a semi-random element, and many undulating, complimentary 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 repititions 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 inter-jections.

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)
• 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)

As Luomo

• Vocalcity (2000)
• The Present Lover (2003)
• The Kick (2004), with Domenico Ferrari
• Paper Tigers (2006),

As Antye Greie

• Naima (2002)

As AGF/Delay

• Explode (2005), with Antye Greie

As The Dolls

• The Dolls (2005) with Antye Greie and Craig Armstrong

Singles

• "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

• Huume Recordings - Ripatti's website