Here is the scoop on Sasu
Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay, Luomo) preps two full-lengths as Sistol for release in 2010 and speaks to Resident Advisor about new monikerdouble disc of unreleased material due in August and brand new album out in September on Halo CyanSasu dishes the first scoop on his resurrected psuedonym which he describes as "more straight-forward and less detailed, a little bit more rough or wild and also daring" in a recent interview with Resident Advisor.Over the past decade, Sasu Ripatti, better known as Vladislav Delay, has released a series of sonically exploratory and innovative albums and singles under his Luomo, Uusitalo, and other guises (including his current stint as an integral part of the Moritz von Oswald Trio), working with labels such as Chain Reaction, Force Tracks, Mille Plateaux, Staubgold, and Leaf, etc. Slightly lost in all that shuffle over the last ten-plus years was one of his earliest projects under the name Sistol, recorded for and released by Phthalo Records back in 1999. Those days of quiet neglect are over, however, as 2010 is the year of Ripatti's Sistol project's bold (re-) coming out party.
Planning to tour in support of these projects later in the year, Ripatti has remastered this early "Sistol" album, injecting the elastic dub-house mechanics of the original material with even more of the delicate, modern-day bounce he's since acquired over the past decade, and Phthalo is reissuing and re-releasing this seminal record as part of the launch of its brand-new Halo Cyan dancefloor-centric imprint and sub-label.
Available in August as a deluxe double-CD and digitally, "Sistol" will include the fully-remastered original album, as well as unreleased bonus tracks from the era, alongside an exhaustive selection of all-new remixes and reworkings from the artist's peers, including techno and electronic luminaries such as John Tejada, Alva Noto, FaltyDL, Sutekh, Mike Huckaby, and [a]pendics.shuffle (to name just a few of the remixers). Additionally, preceding the record's rerelease will be a limited run of several of the remixes of this older material above, available digitally and on limited 12-inch vinyl by Phthalo and Halo Cyan Records in July.But that's just the least of it, really: as part of the 2010 rebirth of Vladislav Delay-as-Sistol, he's recorded a startling new full-length record entitled "On the Bright Side". Influenced and inspired by a range of a year's worth of experimentations - with everything from vividly narcotic flashbacks and memories; to his production work and touring alongside the legendary Moritz von Oswald; to the vast array of ideas that Ripatti immersed himself in while reading aboard long flights from one gig to the next (or when squirreled away at his new home on the remote island of Hailuoto in northern Finland).
Yet almost despite all these experimentations, "On the Bright Side" is a suprisingly bold, poppy record, sounding far closer to a Luomo record than, say, a Vladislav Delay record. Ripatti has taken the brightness of the album's title and wholly literalized and given it corporeal form with a range of garishly vibrant and buoyant synth melodies, alongside stroboscopic basslines that glitter loudly from one track to the next...each somehow managing to retain an air of practiced delicacy throughout the mix.
Upcoming Performances
5.13 Graz, Austria @ Orpheum Spring Festival*
5.21 Rome, Italy @ Dissonanze Festival, Palazzo dei Congressi *
5.27 Sofia, Bulgaria @ Mellow Festival*
5.31 Detroit, MI @ DEMF-Movement*
6.3 New York City, NY @ Knitting Factoty presents at Warsaw*
6.4 Montreal, QC @ Contemporary Arts Museum #
6.5 Montreal, QC @ Mutek Festival^
6.6 Montreal, QC @ Mutek Festival*
6.7 France, Aix-En-Provence, Seconde Nature Festival*
* as Moritz Von Oswald Trio // ^ as Vladislav Delay // # as Uusitalofor