Luomo

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Member Since: 5/9/2007
Band Website: luomoweb.com
Band Members: 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. He has worked with Craig Armstrong, Towa Tei, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Massive Attack, Scissor Sisters and many others. Sasu Ripatti 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 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.

Sounds Like: read press quotes below...

paper tigers is a glorious, outsized triumph of a record. luomo is back, familiar and yet somehow freakier than ever. (pitchfork)

it might be time to just call sasu ripatti an iconoclast and be done with it. (stylus)

searching for the fragile and sensual, the album counts on more than few occasions where the new ground is found. evolving from the norm to offer a tonic treatment not heard yet on other luomo albums (...) some of the songs could be chart-hitting hyper-pop if so wanted but in luomo world they turn into original and experimental beauty few dare to make, or can think of. (soulseduction.com)

this is easily one of the year’s best records. (boston weekly)

if you want pristine streamlining, go kompakt. if you want smart cacophony, hit villalobos. but if you was to hear just how interestingly dance drums can be produced, luomo has always had your number. (cokemachineglow)

he continued to pioneer the new house sound with the release of the smooth and sexy the present lover (2003) - but paper tigers calculates a future house. house music that is delicately crafted from disco-ball shards. house music that filters vocals through space-age parabolics. house music that transcends the dancefloor and leaps into your eardrums. house music will never be the same, until he returns, again. (ear-rational.com)

ripatti slowly rolls out a trembling, chunky blob of electricity marbled by dubby delay ripples (...) the general mood of paper tigers is largely set: a clean, almost sanitized clutter of particles that morph into gas, solid or liquid at random intervals. (dustedmagazine.com)

luomo widens the appeal of a dance genre by mining a vein of attractive melody, unafraid of dance music’s ability to please the ear. paper tigers quiet, complex experiments show an artist extremely serious about his work. it’s an added bonus that it’s a splintering, disorienting treat to listen to, as well. (popmatters.com)

Record Label: Huumerecordings, Force Tracks, Kinetic Records etc
Type of Label: Major