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Tulenkantaja

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This is another piece of absolute goregousness by one of the worlds foremost 'micro' electronica artists.

What you get here are 10 lenghty slabs of precision-crafted retro tech/house. This is made through very clever arrangements of micro samples which create a dense and challenging soundscape full of subtleties but with a certain degree of melody, thus making it (kind of) dancable. The sound is more akin to Luomo's (vocalcity) than Delay's more abstract works such as (4 quarters) and gives images of smokey, hazey, 'ultra sophisticated' dancefloors at 3am where you can just about see beautiful girls hypnotising you with there slow dance-movements through the pyrotechnics. There are elements of occasional spliced vocal snippets which work very well and elements micro-dub (i.e. echo) which shine through in some songs and the beats are also very well arranged and so those complaining of 4/4's dominating will find much pleasure here.

Production wise, this is obviously immense. Delay specialises in creating very warm organic sounding sounds with a wide soundstage, something which is especailly important when there are many nuances.

My favourite tracks are the murky track 5 and tracks 1 + 7. All the tracks are great and it works as a whole however i do tend to skip track 3.

To get the most out of this album you need a quality sound-system to reveal all the subtlies. It is these subtlies that make this album so rewarding after the 100th listen.

Like a vocal-less Luomo, Uusitalo's TULENKANTAJA has a cool and icy house groove, with some smatterings of electro-flourish for decoration. The beats kick in immediately with "Paskaa Musaa," which has less glitch than one would ordinarily expect from Vladislav Delay, but enough to establish parentage. "Odottava Peto" goes more uptempo but still with a subdued feeling overall; this is not an album necessarily destined for the dancefloor. The bottom-heavy "Kalajuttuja" has an appealing reggae counter-beat at its start that adds some considerable bounce, while "Nokkonen Päiväunilla" is probably more messy than it needs to be. "Uutta Verta Hangella" gets things back on track, however, and the title track dubs things out even more. "Misut Irti/Huutaa" adds a nice deep and melodic touch, and "Lasi Hajoaa" ends the album on a deeper note. Nicely done overall.