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- Date Released: May 16, 2006
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Industrial
- Label: Huume / The Orchard
Finland's most creative house producer stretches out.
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We Say...
Sasu Ripatti, the Finnish producer better known as Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo and Luomo, has made a career of making accidents sound planned and vice-versa. He's most famous for the sumptuous house he creates as Luomo, but he's tended to leave that project's voluptuous pleasures to the side of his other, drier work. Not so with his second album as Uusitalo: Tulenkantaja plays out like a driftier, more relaxed instrumental version of Luomo's, Vocal City. All ten tracks here are laid out in the same basic manner: mood-setting keyboard bass line/synth-pad/high-end melody combo, joined by straightforward house beats, all of which are gently mutated throughout the track until, by the last couple of minutes, they sound related to but substantially different from the way they did at the beginning. Sometimes this comes across as slightly bent but more or less traditional house, as with "Odottava Peto" and the propulsive "Tervatahroja"; other times, as on "Nokkonen Päiväunilla" and "Misut Irti / Huutaa," the beats anchor strange but inviting tumble-down found-percussion and glitches. And it's all recognizably Ripatti, meaning it will remind you of plenty while still sounding like nothing else.
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They Say...
In the time it took Vladislav Delay to produce another record under the Uusitalo guise, he released a full-length album of material with his partner AGF under the guise AGF/DLAY, collaborated with AGF and Craig Armstrong for the Dolls project, released several remixes and a full-length under the Luomo moniker as well as a solo album under his own name. So you can't exactly say he was slacking or taking a creative sabbatical. Released on his Huume imprint (oh yeah, he also started a record label during this period), Tulenkantaja is very similar to Vapaa Muurari, but also leans toward the textures of Luomo's Vocal City with its dancefloor-friendly rhythms and straightforward melodic basslines. Many of his signature moves are also involved in Tulenkantaja's creations: lengthy passages with ethereal minor key synth lines, field recordings and improvisational noises, and moments where the drum machines fade into the background and let the almost incidental movement of all of the melodic elements carry the tune. However, unlike anything he's done in the past, this album also weaves a narrative of his family's involvement with the literary arts: his father is an accomplished author and his grandmother was a crucial member of a Finnish radical literary group in the '40s. With photos taken from his home in Finland and literary excerpts from his family's work, this may be the most personal and intimate look at Delay's life to date. Fans of any of his earlier releases will no doubt have an easy time enjoying this, as there's something here for everyone to enjoy, regardless of alter ego preference. It's focused, well produced, and warrants repeated listening, for there's something going on with every bar and beat that could easily be missed with a first-time casual listen.
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| 01. |  |
Paskaa Musaa |
8:05 |
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| 02. | |
Odottava Peto |
5:52 |
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| 03. | |
Kalajuttuja |
8:28 |
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| 04. | |
Lumimies |
5:29 |
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| 05. | |
Nokkonen Päiväunilla |
5:32 |
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| 06. | |
Uutta Verta Hangella |
6:32 |
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| 07. | |
Tulenkantaja |
5:59 |
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| 08. | |
Tervatahroja |
7:45 |
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| 09. | |
Misut Irti / Huutaa |
8:27 |
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| 10. | |
Lasi Hajoaa |
5:24 |
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10 Total Tracks, 67:33 Total Length
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