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01. Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (2022 Remaster)
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02. Vladislav Delay - Wanted to (Kill) (2022 Remaster)
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03. Vladislav Delay - I Saw A Polysexual (2022 Remaster)
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04. Vladislav Delay - Stop Talking (2022 Remaster)
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01. Vladislav Delay - Lumi (2022 Remaster)
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02. Vladislav Delay - He Lived Deeply (2022 Remaster)
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03. Vladislav Delay - Recovery Idea (2022 Remaster)
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ARTIST
VLADISLAV DELAY
TITLE
Whistleblower
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
KEPLAR
CATALOG #
KEPLARREV 012LP
KEPLARREV 012LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
2/17/2023
Vladislav Delay
's 2007 album
Whistleblower
on vinyl for the first time. Reworked/remastered and featuring new artwork. Following up on reissues of the 2000 compilation
Multila
(KEPLARREV 001LP) and 2001's
Anima
(KEPLARREV 009LP),
Sasu Ripatti
has thoroughly revisited the classic
Whistleblower
for its first ever vinyl issue on the German Keplar label. Ripatti created entirely new mixes of previously unheard-of alternative versions of the tracks that first appeared on CD through his own Huume imprint in early 2007. He thus shines a new, different light on a record that was as much an expression of reaching a turning point in his life as it also showcased a new, more direct and perhaps more abrasive side of his Vladislav Delay project.
Whistleblower
was marked by the insertion of more noise and disruptive elements into Ripatti's slowly moving take on intricate electronic music that heavily leaned on dub techniques. Fittingly for an album written at the threshold between one life and the other,
Whisteblower
seems at once melancholic and forward-looking in both tone and style.
Whisteblower
was the follow-up record to 2005's
The Four Quarters
and produced in the German capital. Changes in his personal life had a profound impact on him when making the record. The fifth track, "Lumi," was dedicated to his daughter who was born shortly after the album was finished. Having already previously embraced a sober lifestyle -- hinted at with the last piece's title, "Recovery Idea", Ripatti started questioning his life choices more thoroughly. This is also expressed in "He Lived Deeply", a track inspired by
Miles Davis
's love for
Duke Ellington
whose title can be read as an implicit question that Ripatti nowadays paraphrases thusly. The seven tracks also marked a musical turning point in Ripatti's work as a producer, not only because it was the last one for which he primarily used analogue and vintage equipment. They are also more straightforward on a music level, more demanding and at times more concerned with subtle rhythms than with the thick textures that were so integral to his earlier work.
Whisteblower
represented the first step in a process of focusing less on sonic abstraction and more on direct (self-)expression. While Ripatti admits that he found working on the album difficult back then, he also points out that he was surprised to hear how "gentle and peaceful" it sounded when he started revisiting the original files he used as a basis for these newly mixed versions. Remastered and cut by
Kassian Troyer
at Dubplates & Mastering. Includes poly-lined inners; includes download code.
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