The triumph of "Vocalcity"? Not reduction, but expansion. If there’s anything “micro” in Vocalcity, it’s the way tiny little holes open up within the frizzing chords, as though you could see the pixels framing each fraying waveform. But that’s all academic. Years later, “minimal” techno has fattened itself up again. Most of today’s rave hits don’t sound anything like Luomo, but I don’t think anything today would sound the way it does if Luomo hadn’t seduced the tinkerers away from their mouse pads and back to the land of goosebumps and sex. What you hear most in Luomo toda… read more
The triumph of "Vocalcity"? Not reduction, but expansion. If there’s anything “micro” in Vocalcity, it’s the way tiny little holes open up … read more
The triumph of "Vocalcity"? Not reduction, but expansion. If there’s anything “micro” in Vocalcity, it’s the way tiny little holes open up within the frizzing chords, as though… read more
Luomo is the pop-experimental face of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti, (AKA Vladislav Delay). The music of Luomo stretches taut lines between shadowy experimentalism and shining club aspirations of the dancefloor, capturing tension and romance in shards of polished disco. Full of dark chasms and dangerous sharp edges, the restless experimentation and bitter-tenderness in Luomo’s songs have shattered and reformed our expectations of pop, songs like ‘Tessio’ became the foundation of what was soon known as ‘microhouse’, a genre characterised by minimal clicks’n’cuts cast in grooving bass… read more
Luomo is the pop-experimental face of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti, (AKA Vladislav Delay). The music of Luomo stretches taut lines between shadowy experimentalism and shining club aspirati… read more
Luomo is the pop-experimental face of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti, (AKA Vladislav Delay). The music of Luomo stretches taut lines between shadowy experimentalism and shining club aspirations of the dancefloor, capturing tension and r… read more