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Luomo is the pop-experimental face of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti (b. 1976). The music of Luomo stretches taut lines between shadowy experimentalism and shining club aspirations of the dancefloor, capturing tension and romance in shards of polished disco. Full of dark chasms and dangerous sharp edges, the restless experimentation and bitter-tenderness in Luomo’s songs have shattered and reformed our expectations of pop, songs like ‘Tessio’ became the foundation of what was soon known as ‘microhouse’, a genre characterised by minimal clicks’n’cuts cast in grooving bass. But the pop tropes and shimmering vocals of Luomo smeared over deeply layered backgrounds made it clear that Ripatti was drawing on a wider range of influences to come up with this uniquely re-formed sound, not only glitch, but dub, trip-hop, chicago house, soul and disco. Ripatti groped though dark territory for the ‘Vocalcity’ (2000) songs. Sometimes fumbling and failing, he presented each element — icy reverb, stuttering rhythms and brittle synth stabs –– woven into original, glittering stories with crossover pop appeal that was picked up by major labels.

At the same time Ripatti was recording for Berlin’s experimental dub-house imprint Chain Reaction – a Basic Channel sub label – and the influential Mille Plateaux as Vladislav Delay, as well as on MP parent label Force Inc. as Uusitalo. What marks out Luomo particularly from these other monikers, aside from a more overt pop orientation, is the extensive, sensitive use of vocal samples from a variety of collaborators.
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  • Alec_Trevelyan

    Shelter is fav track atm

    11 days ago
  • Glejs

    Amazing, all albums are amazing.

    last month
  • 1nnervision

    If the tracks are too long go listen to the Chemical Brothers. The tracks are perfect, and I'm not surprised a buffoon like you can't see that.

    March 2012
  • Peasounay

    Very nice, but the tracks are a little long imo

    March 2012
  • C3R14LK1L4

    Excellent "romantic" House!

    March 2012
  • Doberman27

    WOULD YOU BE MINE?

    February 2012
  • D0Lt

    @sumitsijher @Funkstar_De_Luxe: Vocals on Plus are by Michael Black Electro/Pijall.

    November 2011
  • dnz81

    hope 2 see you in ISTANBUL : )

    October 2011
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Luomo

27 Apr 2011 | from www.luomomusic.org

LUOMO PLUS New Album incl. 9 tracks Out on Moodmusic Records Get Updates on Facebook Buy ♣ CD ♦ Digital ♥ 12″ Buy ♠ Deluxe Edition

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