When Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay) makes dub techno, it's not simply Basic Channel imitation: The closest Ripatti comes to simple 4/4 rhythm is in "Huone," a meticulous 20-minute crescendo that would make Ricardo Villalobos jealous. Most of the album's eighty minutes consists in pushing traditionally "background" sounds to the foreground: reverb-heavy pads and stabs, stuttering dull kick drums, and above all, static and noise.
so happy i can review this the day it makes an emusic release! congratulations to emusic and Huume for this! i cannot recommend this album strongly enough. i already have most of the tunes but hvnt even heard the others. it's a re-release on Delay's label, Huume (finnish for narcotic/drug). it's loaded with funk, atmosphere, ambience, glacial drift, frozen lakes and fog, and epics like huone cant properly be distilled into 30-second clips. give huone (chamber/place/room) a try first, and be sure to listen to all of it..im sure the rest will fall into queue shortly afterward. this is texture and theme, timbre and resonance explicated at exhaustive and vibrant length.
