Artists>>Vladislav Delay
The Finnish producer known as Vladislav Delay, has created some of the more individual and distinctive sounds in modern electronic music. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco, having been involved in the involved in the ambient music, glitch, house , and techno genres.. His method of track production involves a mixture of synthesizing, vocal recording and live reprocessing. Many tracks have an organic feeling that pervades through rolling dubby basslines and vocal snippets. As Vladislav Delay, he has recorded excellent work for three of Europe's most challenging electronic labels: Chain Reaction, Mille Plateaux, and 's Max.Ernst. His lengthy ambient pieces employ slow-motion, icey dub-like reverbs and jazz-like improvisations cast in a digital landscape of samples, glitches, analog waves, and complex bass lines.
He grew up trained in jazz and still counts - the fiery drummer for the first - one of his prime influences. Also before entering the world of electronics, Delay took side trips through the music of the globe (Brazilian, Cuban, African), beginning to produce electronic music in 1994. After a series of experimentations during 1996-1997 (later released, as by Conoco, on the Kemikoski full-length), his first release was 'The Kind of Blue' EP, released in 1998 for the Finnish label Huume. During 1999, Delay released singles on Max.Ernst and Chain Reaction, leading to his album debut, 'Ele', on the Australian label Sigma Editions. In early 2000, two more full-lengths followed; first, Chain Reaction released 'Multila', then 'Entain' appeared on Mille Plateaux. Before the end of the year, Delay had debuted a housier incarnation, , with the 'Vocalcity' LP for Forcetracks. 'Anima' was issued a year later, and 'Demo(n)Tracks' appeared in 2004. Ultimately, Vladislav Delay 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.