Luomo

Unsatisfiable Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti, best known as Vladislav Delay, has been presenting his experimental pop-house project Luomo to a world-wide audiences with three full-length albums as well as in critically acclaimed live performances since the early 2000.
As a producer or remixer he has worked with Craig Armstrong, Towa Tei, Ryuichi Sakamoto,Massive Attack and many others.
But while the rest of the world is enjoying and sharing the beauty, the author himself is still at least partially producing that music to reach his own underworld and move to unknown territories; to find something new, to process and progress.
He's in between the worlds, as is the music he makes and stories he tells; those kaleidoscopic dreamscapes that fuse the conventions of the hard-hitten romanticist and a cruel reality-addict.
Like the music he destroys to make it sound better.
Although as dreamy and introverted as he may be, his music as Luomo is not.
He has made the Luomo project to satisfy his pop teeth, and occasionally the seemingly shallow musical parts do appear, only to be fused within the depths of layered sound fields and arcane arrangements, all wrapped up together in pensive production qualities he's well known for.
Being resistant to musical genre cliques and not having any real models for Luomo, he's trying to create them by himself, to conceive his own slightly surreal, genre-blending musical universe he'd like to dwell in, with slight references to various musical worlds past present and future.
To create something different for the dance floor.
One of the most distinguishing and unique factor about Luomo is the usage of human voice, the very sensitive and amazing instrument.
The producer has been long fascinated about vocals and how they can be used to play roles like actors in movies and to say old things in new ways, and how they can be manipulated and treated but in the end still deliver a message.
So he finds himself craving for new settings and sounds as ever while still retaining those storytelling and emotion-warming qualities and the adorably broken vocals that have become a trademark to Luomo sound and have been shared and appreciated by so many people around the globe.
It's not only in the vocals though. Himself a drummer, he finds it not only easy but very much a joy to create those rhythms that evolve and hypnotize, or confuse the listener when so wanted. The rhythm he destroys to make it more interesting.
The creative arrangements and the long-evolving songs are the results from experimenting and trying to find the true meaning and feelings in and behind the songs, and above all, to reach some longevity in them.
His aim? To be able to discover more and new things in songs with each listening.
The songs could be some consumer-friendly dance-pop if so wanted but in Luomo's world it turns into original and experimental dance floor beauty few dare to make, or can think of.