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└────────┘ 14.04.2007
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artist: Vladislav Delay
album: Whistleblower
label: Huume Recordings
cat: HUU13CD
year: 2007
genre: Electronic
sub-genre: Experimental, Ambient
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 89,3 MB
link: http://www.huumerecordings.com/
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 09:45 Whistleblower
02 12:20 Wanted To (Kill)
03 09:12 Stop Talking
04 09:20 I Saw A Polysexual
05 05:24 Lumi
06 12:54 He Lived Deeply
07 10:00 Recovery IDea
total time: 68:55 min
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│release notes.
If the true index of a one's artistic vitality is the adherence to
one's own musical language, VLADISLAV DELAY seems to be developing
a dragon spirit. The year 2007 marks a satisfying 10-year
anniversary for the artist; it was in 1997 he released his first
solo EP "The Kind Of Blue" on his own label. Had he continued with
the label back then it would also be full ten years of Huume
Recordings today but instead he begun his run of critically
acclaimed releases for labels like Chain Reaction and Mille
Plateaux for the next few years to come (Huume Recordings was
re-established in 2004). Whistleblower. A working title influenced
by surrounding circumstances, describing the mood and receptions
around the time of making the album. It also became the obvious
choice of the title for the album afterwards as very little had
changed in that short time. His work doesn't normally involve any
politics but in the last few years it's been impossible for him to
not let some current global events sneak into the work, as an
underlying influence shaping his creative atmosphere. Contrary to
inconceivable pipe-dreams he's been chasing on and the movies and
visions he's often living in, these days VLADISLAV DELAY confesses
some bewilderment at the cruel reality of the world affairs and how
much and what kind of headlines they create. He's got very taken
with the idea that what he does is just his environment shaping his
productions in turn, just as his and everyone else's productions
and actions are shaping the world as well. His far-flung
soundscapes and futuristic sound-processing are merely a way to
analyse and handle the contemporary, and in this respect it is
slightly politically engaged activity; one he's aware of but not
taking advantage of for the sake of publicity. Motifs that may
appear trashy or messy to the uninitiated - sound exploration,
distortions, dub technologies - can in fact be for him surprisingly
sophisticated tools for dissecting and examining the world as it
is, piece by piece, layer after layer. How he turns it out in the
end is as if hundreds of radios were left playing all at once,
magically staying somewhat in synch. The new album, consisting of 7
songs, displays somewhat a resurgence of his older drug-infused
sound-states; them utopian audio-visions large and vast enough to
hide away from the reality. it's clear from the first listen that
this is no background music, nor is it anything but rather
rewarding content for those active listeners who enjoy following
his multi-speed now-you-see-it-now-you-don't-rhythm conversations
and cinematographic sound visions spread across the audible
spectrum, challenging the possible and pushing the sensible
boundaries of audio. A seasoned traveler, musically speaking and
otherwise, he's not afraid to devise a way to turn off rational
decision-making in his music and rather become a soul-searching
intuitionist, leaving all the radios turned on, but equally he's
willing to spend weeks on end sifting through a huge pile of data
to just find one satisfying sound or musical momentum, whatever it
was that was needed. In the end, these ultimately personal musical
visions serve a role to escape the persistent transience of modern
life and art, like so many commodities in our ultra-retail
environment, so hyper-linked and so videoclipped together that
there is scarcely any room left for more input, all the while the
content is consumed so fast that the need for more is greater than
ever.
Enjoy!.
Vladislav on the web:
http://www.vladislavdelay.com/
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