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Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	Demo(n)tracks
Label:	HUUME RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HUUME 001CD

"The Finnish producer known to most as Vladislav Delay, has created some of the more individual and distinctive sounds in modern electronic music. He is one of the few who picked up on the influences of the Basic Channel / Chain Reaction school of submerged techno and really took it somewhere new, creating sprawling masses of sound that slowly develop in a way that's hard to predict or sometimes even take in. The more ambient aspects of his approach were revealed through releases on Chain Reaction and Sigma Editions Very popular experimental label Mille Plateaux got in on the party, and Vladislav Delay's reputation as a producer of intriguing, often moody soundscapes was cemented. Then, just when listeners thought they had got the hang of what Vladislav Delay releases were about, the first Luomo 12" came out, and it was a vocal house record. Some were baffled, others thrilled. His personality was still very much in evidence; the Luomo records are still filled with unpredictable bursts of sound, sudden reversals and structures collapsing and re-forming. As with the more ambient work, tracks shift structure almost imperceptibly so at the end of 7 minutes you're somewhere quite different from where you began. Now Vladislav Delay returns with Demo(n) tracks, the first album on his own label Huume. Trying to avoid the common pitfalls and looking for a challenge in music, on this new album Vladislav Delay steps away from the old-trusted dub influences and eternal long soundscapes and tries to see for himself what the next step is, in a need to find a progression in personal music. The album comes out from 2 weeks spent chasing demons in Berlin. A reason to make music. Even though the signature sound is still there, the traces of work-in-progress and the evolution of an artist is evident; new steps are being taken towards sound sculpting and acoustic recordings, playing and treating drums, using and creating songs like sketches or diary, and flirting with sometimes negative aspects like coldness and digitus so often profound of latein (electronic) music. While embracing the audio technology, much care is taken not to let that DSP take over or outgun much more important elements in there; the content itself, and what was meant to be expressed and explored or was just suggested. Without a need or intent to copy but to rather originate, Demo(n)tracks, a collage of 13 tracks mixed together, resembles influences more from urban life than from any genre of music, but all the same from not one but all genres of music and moulds it into a music of its own. Vladislav Delay, intrigued by nature, is this time to capture something essential out of the whole and from the moment, and to represent and translate that which is unpolished and sincere to the listener. Demo(n)tracks is an approach to explore and experiment music."

Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	The Four Quarters
Label:	HUUME RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HUUME 005CD

Vladislav Delay (aka Luomo and Uusitalo) is a techno producer and one of the most highly-regarded Finnish innovators in experimental music and especially with the method referred to as clicks and cuts. The Four Quarters is his third release on his own Huume label, not counting his releases under his alter-ego Luomo. The longer, more ambient aspects of his approach were revealed through releases on Chain Reaction (Multila), Mille Plateaux (Entain, Anima) and Staubgold (Naima). This solo record continues the Delay tradition of intriguingly moody motifs in his most personal and intimate recording to date. Having become slightly sensitive and critical towards "electronic" music in some way, the composer challenged himself and set a goal to create an "electronic" album he'd like to hear and listen to. While ignoring labels and sub-genres and concentrating on sound and music instead, something of a personal revelation was experienced while producing The Four Quarters; for after having escaped the electronic sounds and his recent musical past for some time now it felt refreshing and inviting to go back to where it all had begun some ten years ago. A quest to find music not yet heard. This time around, though, it was possible for him to paint the picture with the exact colors he wanted; to realize his vision in sound and beyond. The soundtrack of Vladislav Delay. Music for the humans. As the title suggests, there are four lengthy pieces of music being offered for more than casual listening. During the making of this music, the utmost care was taken to create something for the pure pleasure of it, and nothing was protected or kept sacred, and no over-thinking or analyzing ever took over the artist. As always, Vladislav Delay is on the look-out for new and surprising elements, sounds and arrangements, and it might be that on The Four Quarters the aspect of sound design is taken to the furthest limits imaginable amongst all his works. The result is the unmistakable, warm sound of Vladislav Delay.

Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	Multila
Label:	HUUME RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HUUME 009CD

Originally released on Chain Reaction as in the year 2000, this cult album now finds its re-release on Huume Recordings. Multila brought together Vladislav Delay's vinyl releases for Berlin's Chain Reaction label, focusing on the dense, murky gritswirls and ghost voice traces that underlie this subtle artist's other works. The release was a landmark for the artist, as it was his favorite record label in the world that picked up his material, and if it was good enough for Chain Reaction it was good for anybody and everything. The original album was mastered by Moritz von Oswald/Basic Channel and the same exact audio is kept for the re-release. The re-release carries new artwork done by a long-time collaborator Kaisa Kemikoski, person behind most of the Huume Recordings artwork. As written for the original album: "Life films us exactly. Our experience of it, though, lies beyond images and descriptions. Emotions, coming in irrational flashes, are non-figurable. We lose our little connection to them very quickly. We look for forms with this in mind; that they can take us to meet the subconscious. Multila's construction is principled this way. Fragments of experience, moments without definition or localization are captured within tiny fragments of time and then within one's mindspace. We can look into it and see that experience has left some of its data to us. as we receive it, again and again, we are connected and reconnected to certain indefinable moments. Both during and after its recording, Multila is a tool to learn about the unintentional states ... to see your own emotional loops. Multila is a soundtrack for vision." --Vladislav Delay, 2000

Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	Whistleblower
Label:	HUUME RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	HUUME 013CD

This is Vladislav Delay's (aka Luomo) fourth release on his own Huume label. If the true index of one's artistic vitality is the adherence to one's own musical language, Vladislav Delay seems to be developing a dragon spirit. The year 2007 marks a satisfying 10-year anniversary for the artist; it was in 1997 he released his first solo EP The Kind Of Blue on his own label. Had he continued with the label back then it would also be a full ten years of Huume Recordings today but instead, he begun his run of critically-acclaimed releases for labels like Chain Reaction and Mille Plateaux for the next few years to come (Huume Recordings was re-established in 2004). Whistleblower: a working title influenced by surrounding circumstances, describing the mood and receptions around the time of making the album. His work doesn't normally involve any politics but in the last few years it's been impossible for him to not let some current global events sneak into the work, as an underlying influence shaping his creative atmosphere. Contrary to inconceivable pipe-dreams, Delay confesses some bewilderment at the cruel reality of world affairs and how much and what kind of headlines they create. He's very taken with the idea that what he does is just his environment shaping his productions in turn, just as his and everyone else's productions and actions are shaping the world as well. His far-flung soundscapes and futuristic sound-processing are merely a way to analyze and handle the contemporary. Motifs that may appear trashy or messy to the uninitiated -- sound exploration, distortions, dub technologies -- can in fact be for him surprisingly sophisticated tools for dissecting and examining the world as it is, piece by piece, layer after layer. How he turns it out in the end is as if hundreds of radios were left playing all at once, magically staying somewhat in synch. Whistleblower displays somewhat a resurgence of his older drug-infused soundstates; those utopian audio-visions large and vast enough to hide away from reality. This is not background music, this is a series of rhythmic conversations and cinematographic sound-visions spread across the audible spectrum, challenging the possible and pushing boundaries. In the end, these ultimately personal musical visions speak to the persistent transience of modern life and art, like so many commodities in our ultra-retail environment, so hyper-linked and so video-clipped together, that there is scarcely any room left for more input, all the while the content is consumed so fast that the need for more is greater than ever.

Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	Anima
Label:	HUUME RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HUUME 015CD

Huume Recordings re-release of Vladislav Delay's (Luomo) classic Mille Plateaux album, originally released in 2001, including a previously-unreleased alternate version. Anima is an opus of over 60 minutes, a continuous mix that reveals itself beyond audio design. Delay succeeds in developing his new, atypical methods of production: rather than familiar electronic traits of looping sounds, Anima continually develops in an organic flow, thus giving the interpretation that perhaps the music is less a digital excursion and more an instrumental development. Vladislav Delay is setting on potentials, effects and impulses of the never-heard: a new world of audio. Furthermore: the word "anima" is a psychological term meaning "an inner feminine part of the male personality." Both the artwork and the music, demure and beautiful, perfectly reflect these qualities. The original song is indexed as a single 62-minute track, a continuous flow that constantly, unpredictably shifts gears while retaining recurrent themes and coherence. The sound set is a vast, atmospheric sonic sandbox of Arctic synth pads, low-end blips and throbs, fragments and smears of fractured audio and an expansive selection of percussive minutiae. Melody and rhythm are sometimes more implied than expressed, allowing your brain to fill in the blanks, and at other times they coalesce effortlessly, flawlessly and gracefully all on their own. The recording marked a decisive change and break in Delay's production style from programming/sequencing to playing live; the whole album was played from beginning to finish in full takes, instrument by instrument and sound by sound with only a minimum of editing or post-production. The original recording is joined by the author's previously-unreleased favorite version of Anima at a slower speed. Edited and produced in 2008, it's a collage/remix of the original, offering a different view of this important piece of electronic music.

Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	Anima
Label:	MILLE PLATEAUX (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MP 095CD

"From his home in Helsinki, Finland, Delay has brought forward a new directive into the sounds of dub and minimal electronics, placing him as one of the premier artists involved in the recent wave of electronic dub hybrids (aka Pole, Kit Clayton). He is also behind the popular Deep House project Luomo and the techno act Uusitalo. Now Vladislav Delay returns with Anima, the follow-up to last year's critically acclaimed Mille Plateaux release Entain and Mutila on Chain Reaction. Anima is an opus of over 60 minutes, a continuous mix that reveals itself beyond audio design. Delay succeds in developing his new methods of production and altering music as it is typically translated. Rather than familiar electronic traits of looping sounds, Anima continually develops in an organic flow, thus giving the interpretation that perhaps the music is less a digital excursion and more an instrumental development. Vladislav Delay is setting on potentials, effects and impulses of the never heard. Imagine a new world of audio." Limited stock.

Artist:	DELAY, VLADISLAV
Title:	Naima
Label:	STAUBGOLD (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	STAUB 023CD

"Exclusive live recordings from the Ars Electronica Klangpark 2001. For this exclusive release Vladislav Delay compiled the best moments of his live recordings during the Klangpark sessions at Ars Electronica festival 2001. On the basis of the sound material used on his current studio album Anima (Mille Plateaux) Delay transformed the park near the river Danube into an impressive acoustic environment. Music for a river and for passers-by. Out of his home in Helsinki, Finland, Delay has brought forward a new directive into the sounds of dub and minimal electronics, placing him as one of the premier artists involved in the recent wave of electronic dub hybrids. His music, released on labels like Mille Plateaux, Chain Reaction and Sigma, is a continuous mix that reveals itself beyond audio design. Delay succeeds in developing his new methods of production and altering music as it is typically translated. Rather than familiar electronic traits of looping sounds, the music continually develops in an organic flow, thus giving the interpretation that perhaps the music is less a digital excursion and more an instrumental development."

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