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RIPATTI 011LP
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Clear vinyl repress forthcoming.... A masterclass in millennial house, Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay's debut as Luomo returns for a 20th anniversary edition packing the deepest bounce per ounce. Upon its original release in 2000, Vocalcity was a totally unexpected turn from the artist best known as Vladislav Delay, who'd by then established his reputation as a producer of abstract dub techno for Chain Reaction that was ostensibly far removed from deep, vocal-led house music. But prejudices were swiftly assuaged as the Finnish artist's keen knack for shifty rhythm programming was brought in line with Johanna Livanainen's perfectly poised vocals, revealing the core influence of sensuous, soulful deep house and garage on his sound in a similar way to the links between Maurizio's M-Series and the vocal-led Main Street volumes. Twenty years later it's fair to say the six tracks of Vocalcity have withstood the test of time and are bound to weave their slinky magick on 'floors everywhere. With mint copies now near-impossible to find on the second hand market, this new pressing of Vocalcity is perfectly timed for a zeitgeist looking to the late '90s and early '00s for inspiration. Cut a side-per-track, just like the original edition, each of the songs -- ranging between ten and sixteen minutes each -- have plentiful headroom and leg space for dancers, DJs and audiophiles, keeping the album's crucial balance of luxuriant minimalism, and the space between its coiled grooves and burning vocals, perfectly taut and intact. Getting under the skin with the sculpted swing and hair-kissing vox of "Market", and shuffling up close to Moodymann's Detroit house depth in "Class", the album is perhaps best loved for its timeless highlight "Tessio", a rich, warm and writhing beauty that would set the template for myriad House records to come in the following two decades. Along with the mid-tempo lather of R&B vocal inflections on "She-Centre", and the lip-smacking sensuality of "Synkro", this whole lot is an absolute must-have for fans of late night/all day dancing sessions as much as those who like do it quieter. 100% classic material. Listed in Resident Advisor's albums of the decade. 9.7 on Pitchfork. Newly remastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering.
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RIPATTI 009LP
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Double LP version. Sasu Ripatti is one of electronic music's most prolific and eclectic producers. Throughout the last two decades Ripatti has explored every imaginable genre with over 20 albums under aliases such as Luomo and Sistol. A classically trained percussionist, the Finnish native has also performed as a part of the Moritz Von Oswald Trio and his own Vladislav Delay Quartet. He returns now under his Vladislav Delay moniker with a uniquely inspired album. Visa was a product of pure happenstance. In early 2014, Ripatti was denied entry to the United States and was forced to cancel an entire tour. Suddenly left with unhindered time and a surplus of creative energy, he was able to give birth to the album in a span of only two weeks. Ripatti describes this time as a moment in which "a valve broke open... and I collected what came out the pipes." Visa is Ripatti's first foray into ambient music in over ten years, yet it is not simply passive background music. Rather it is an active entity, a soundscape built from textured layers of evocative industrial noises and dream-like melodic loops. Clocking in at just under an hour and made almost entirely with analog hardware, the album was designed to be listened to at high volume and in full detail. Beatless and void of percussion, Visa's five cuts challenge the listener to follow Ripatti on his journey through time and musical machinery. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
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RIPATTI 009CD
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Sasu Ripatti is one of electronic music's most prolific and eclectic producers. Throughout the last two decades Ripatti has explored every imaginable genre with over 20 albums under aliases such as Luomo and Sistol. A classically trained percussionist, the Finnish native has also performed as a part of the Moritz Von Oswald Trio and his own Vladislav Delay Quartet. He returns now under his Vladislav Delay moniker with a uniquely inspired album. Visa was a product of pure happenstance. In early 2014, Ripatti was denied entry to the United States and was forced to cancel an entire tour. Suddenly left with unhindered time and a surplus of creative energy, he was able to give birth to the album in a span of only two weeks. Ripatti describes this time as a moment in which "a valve broke open... and I collected what came out the pipes." Visa is Ripatti's first foray into ambient music in over ten years, yet it is not simply passive background music. Rather it is an active entity, a soundscape built from textured layers of evocative industrial noises and dream-like melodic loops. Clocking in at just under an hour and made almost entirely with analog hardware, the album was designed to be listened to at high volume and in full detail. Beatless and void of percussion, Visa's five cuts challenge the listener to follow Ripatti on his journey through time and musical machinery. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
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RIPATTI 006EP
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RIpatti is a new label from Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay) envisaged as a studio diary of sorts, cataloguing ongoing experiments made by Sasu in his studio on his own and alongside various collaborators. Ripatti06 features two further productions from Heisenberg, a new collaboration between Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay) and Max Loderbauer (NSI, Sun Electric, Moritz von Oswald Trio). Play at 45 RPM.
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RIPATTI 005EP
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The fifth installment in Sasu Ripatti's eponymous series unearths another pair of loose-limbed productions, further developing a mongrel sound fusing robust techno signatures with a fluid footwork template. It's a distinctly European take on a sound that's hard to fathom -- but the results make for some of the most uncompromising and hard-hitting material in Ripatti's long career to date.
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RIPATTI 004EP
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Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay) meets Finnish brethren and Signal Life boss, Twwth (aka Teeth) on the fourth drop from his eponymous imprint. Both tracks were galvanized from the sessions laid down by the duo at Ripatti's studio, making for some of the most forward, rugged gear in either's arsenal. The A-side is strobing, hyper-kinetic realignment of Chicago footwork factored with sculpted sub-bass propulsion, fibrillating percussion and bleak, Carpenter-esque pads. The B-side brings the funk in a different style, percolating skittish hi-hats and hydraulic subs with the kind of polymetric momentum that could tie Storyboard P in knots. Proper, next-level grooves from the cold, cold north.
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RIPATTI 003EP
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Following on from his debut release as Ripatti, and a complex riddim trip in collaboration with Max Loderbauer (NSI., Sun Electric, MvO Trio) as Heisenberg, Sasu Ripatti returns with his third release for the label, his first as Vladislav Delay. "#5" is complex and unforgiving, an intense percussive tangle that takes the dub essence of so many classic Vladislav Delay productions and re-assembles them into a frazzled steppers-riddim at double speed. "#22" opens with more immediately familiar Delay markers, a dub bass-line lures you in before once again re-configuring the template with a jittery percussive tangle that runs amok.
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RIPATTI 002EP
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Ripatti is a new label from Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay) envisaged as a studio diary of sorts, cataloging ongoing experiments made by Sasu in his studio on his own and alongside various collaborators. Ripatti02 features the first two productions from Heisenberg, a new collaboration between Sasu Ripatti and Max Loderbauer (NSI, Sun Electric, Moritz von Oswald Trio). Play at 45 RPM!
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RIPATTI 001EP
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Ripatti is a new label from Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay) envisaged as a studio diary of sorts, cataloguing ongoing experiments made by Sasu in his studio on his own and alongside various collaborators. Ripatti01 features the first two productions from Ripatti under his own name, feeding into the emergent techno/footwork nexus. These percussive experiments continue ideas explored on 2012's Kuopio album for Raster Noton and his recent collaboration with Mark Fell for Sensate Focus (1.6666666), but with a more extreme and propulsive endpoint.
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