Vladislav Delay - Anima

https://xlr8r.com/features/in-the-studio-vladislav-delay/

shivers: "I really wanted to apply a physical kind of pressure on the album, to make the sounds dead, and to just really kill all extra stuff, melodies and harmonies."

wouldn't mind if he put a physical kind of pressure on me tbqf

I’ve been tempted to make a version of this meme with sasu/agf but I thought the audience would be limited https://66.media.tumblr.com/033ff64dcc603f800149854070318efb/tumblr_inline_oavnicJGUj1shva7d_540.png

Haha. Good interview, although now I have a lot of questions about how they make money (besides having sold a bunch of gear). Maybe in Finland you can just hang out, hike, do yoga, and make music.

(although it looks like he's done some soundtrack and production work that wasn't mentioned)

i didn't see it there, but maybe in another recent interview he mentioned something about his wife working? i seem to recall

Also I love the way his upcoming record sounds in my head, but I'm guessing it will not actually sound like that in reality

fantastic news

happy Rakka day

!!

i haven't anticipated an album this much in a while

sounds just as good in track form as it did live!

bracing stuff, love it. wish I could listen to it really loud in the open air.

yes, it's awesome, exactly what i'd hoped for based on the live clip

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/vladislav-delay-rakka/

thought this was a great review of a great album

fucking love this album so far (one track in lol!) but this is just what I need right now.

talked myself out of, and then immediately back into, buying the Multila remaster/release recently

Christ, this is like being left out in the gritty, bitter wind, stripped naked, staked to the permafrost.

Ha, yeah :) With my face frozen to the ice and a malicious cold snow storm on the way all I'm thinking is: it's fucking great that he's back. And is sounding so immediate in his iso/desolation. Love this.

the first track is absolute killer.

It's all killer! It just goes on and on. Mind and vein sweeper, this.

some real Mika Vainio spirit in this album, I love it.

some of this even sounds like death metal, but in a good way!

xp Yes I'm definitely hearing the spirit of Pan Sonic moving through this.

everyone itt is correct about this amazing record

some of this even sounds like death metal, but in a good way!

― calzino, Friday, March 6, 2020 3:33 AM (seven hours ago)

Yeah the track raataja I described to a friend as "OPN meets double bass pounding death metal? Punishing yet hypnotic and futuristic."

someone on twitter posted something about consuming things that feel like a soul hug from the universe, and i stopped myself from replying that ACTUALLY the new Vlad Delay is probably what a soul hug from the universe would feel like. i am posting it here instead.

That someone would be naxuu, a good soul. And I agree.

^^ have they ever posted to ilx? i follow them on twitter and know they’re on another site I occasionally frequent

As far as I know, no, but I've gotten know naxuu rather well over the past few years -- a good soul as mentioned, very thoughtful and grounded. Just had dinner with him on Monday.

Bring him to a fap!

It'll happen!

Well then. This isn't what I was expecting at all. And it rules.

i'm blasting this thing outdoors, pines all over, in a really hot afternoon, and it keeps delivering this sense of some telluric wildfire arriving, idk

New album 500-Push-Up with Sly & Robbie in May.
Clips sound fantastic

Oh wow! He may live as a recluse in the icy woods now, he sure hasn't retired. I'm so glad he's back.

I feel like the recluse angle got overly played up in a couple interviews where they also mentioned he's been doing soundtracks for television. That last collaboration album w/Sly & Robbie was in 2018!

I guess the difference between retired and active is whether you do interviews and play concerts

yes this album tbh rocks

re: rakka obv

agreed

i did not expect to be knocked on my ass like this, yet here i am knocked on my ass

hi roxy! rakka very much in full blast mode for sure

for anyone not following the luomo thread that enjoys that SR project as well, there's a remaster/rerelease of Vocalcity on vinyl and digital right now, too

I haven't delved too deeply into them yet, but they're definitely louder/more compressed, so depending on what else has been done, results may vary. very skilled people worked on both, though (shout out to Dubplates & Mastering)

Dear Listener,

i'm going to try something different this time and offer a subscription service.
I want to try and see if it could be a valid model for the both of us, the creator and the listener.

I have been contemplating this for a long time but now due to covid and all the concerts cancelled at least until the end of the year there's no more holding back. Basically i'm trying to establish some sort of income from making music. There's also a fact that i can't release all the material i produce, i already have a backlog of several albums and have to wait and sit on them until labels can release them.

I'm going to offer exclusive material to subscribers that will not be released in any other way, as well as material that might be later on released for the public. There's also a certain amount of old stuff i have never released which will be selectively released to subscribers. I'm also thinking of including other material that would be interesting to listen to, like collections of loops i have been working on, remixes of existing tracks, bootlegs or else. I'm especially keen on trying the loops concept as i myself like to listen to them a lot once i get a good one going. Just to be clear, these loops are not production material for you, it's only for listening. It's pre-production material for my forthcoming solo works. "Rakka" album was mostly made with such loops.

I will want to continue with "no fillers" mentality that i have always tried to adhere to my productions, but at the same time open a door to and share parts of the process and even failures in my productions.

If you ever only listened to Luomo material then i think this will not be for you.
The material will be mainly Vladislav Delay kind of stuff but there will be other more rhythmic things happening as well. I'm already working on a next Ripatti album material which is certainly geared more towards club/beats orientation and there will be other more rhythmic things happening as well.
What i'm not going to do is vocal house ;)

The subscription costs 10€ or more per month and includes all my back catalogue as well as all the new works that i'm releasing on Bandcamp in the future. Additionally, and maybe more interestingly, there will be new material i release monthly exclusively to subscribers. New content will be released in the beginning of each month.

i know this is a substantial amount of money in the long run and i'm going to do give it a real effort to make it worth your while. Obviously you can vote with your money or otherwise tell me if there's something missing or you wish something to be changed, added, etc.

I hope this all sounds good to you as a listener. it'd be great to establish a way i could keep on producing music while making the ends meet, and you could keep enjoying a wider range of my productions. Your support is greatly and truly appreciated. Let's make this happen!

Sincerely,
Sasu Ripatti
– Vladislav Delay

Went back to Rakka, I find it really compelling but it also hasn't really clicked, I feel like there's an internal logic to the tracks that I'm not getting yet. The first track has a really interesting evolution as a fast percussive attack is gradually overwhelmed by the elements around it, remerging later after what sound like ruptures in the surface of the track ... but I only managed that through intensive, and actually exhausting listening. I feel like it would be easier if I could blast it really loud, but, roommates/pandemic ...

Side note, and I should really start this conversation somewhere else, but I have no idea how you music critics evaluate works on a deadline. Lots of albums take forever for me to form an opinion of.

well, they're wrong a lot

I have yet to catch up with all the material, but mr. ripatti’s bandcamp subscription has had a few interesting experiments and a jazz mix I have yet to delve into

Has anyone heard the Sly & Robbie one?

Sly and Robbie collaboration is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7LWmYH6bFxb2Ja7RTPdZ2y?si=YA58WAUiTumNzN6G1eekVw

I’ve listened to the older one w/Nils Petter Molvær but only one track from the new one w/just Sly & Robbie