Vocalcity

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Vocalcity
Vocalcity artwork.jpeg
Studio album by
Luomo
Released23 May 2000 (2000-05-23)
Genre
Length76:40
Label Force Tracks
Producer Vladislav Delay
Luomo chronology
Vocalcity
(2000)		 The Present Lover
(2004)
Alternative cover
LuomoVocalcity.jpg
2005 reissue

Vocalcity is an album by Finnish electronic music producer Sasu Ripatti, better known as Vladislav Delay, and the first to be released under his stage name Luomo. It was released on 23 May 2000 on Force Tracks, and was reissued in 2005 on Ripatti's label Huume. [1] [2]

Contents

In contrast to Ripatti's earlier work, Vocalcity features a more uptempo deep house sound. [3] The album has been described by critics as an influential release in the subgenre microhouse, which emphasized the minimal elements of house music. [2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Muzik 4/5 [5]
Pitchfork 9.7/10 [2]
Spin 8/10 [6]

AllMusic reviewer Jason Birchmeier stated that Vocalcity "offers a powerful statement of purpose: glitch can indeed be funky and soulful without forsaking any of its forward-looking clicks + cuts aesthetic," and called it "the sort of album you can safely recommend to anyone." [4] Writing for Pitchfork in 2005, Philip Sherburne praised the music's expansiveness and Luomo's influence in "seduc[ing] the tinkerers away from their mouse pads and back to the land of goosebumps and sex," stating that "what you hear now, after the demise of clicks + cuts, aren't the pinpricks but the enormous, inflated sounds of everything else—bass, pads, and of course those vocals." [2]

Vocalcity was named the 13th best album of the 2000s by Resident Advisor , which called Luomo "arguably the first artist to successfully meld next-level production techniques with a rich, emotionally-charged soul," and stated that the album "set the tone for a decade that would see the conservative boundaries of what we once knew as house transformed beyond all recognition." [7] The A.V. Club included Vocalcity in its list of the best electronic music of the 2000s, commenting that "warm, enveloping, and riddled with doubt, the debut of Luomo remains one of the decade's most audacious mergers. Deep-house beats and (especially) bass merged with glitch-techno methodology and dub production technique." [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sasu Ripatti. [9]

  1. "Market" – 11:59
  2. "Class" – 12:31
  3. "Synkro" – 13:59
  4. "The Right Wing" – 16:08
  5. "Tessio" – 12:07
  6. "She-Center" – 9:56

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Vocalcity". luomomusic.org. Archived from the original on 1 September 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Sherburne, Philip (8 September 2005). "Luomo: Vocalcity". Pitchfork . Retrieved 1 October 2009.
  3. ↑ Sherburne, Philip (4 March 2020). "Where to Start with Vladislav Delay, Finland's Shape-Shifting Ambient-Techno Auteur". Pitchfork . Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. 1 2 Birchmeier, Jason. "Vocalcity – Luomo". AllMusic . Retrieved 1 October 2009.
  5. ↑ Mugridge, Tom (September 2000). "Luomo: Vocalcity". Muzik . No. 64. p. 102.
  6. ↑ Rubin, Mike (November 2000). "Luomo: VocalCity". Spin . Vol. 16, no. 11. p. 208. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s". Resident Advisor . 25 January 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
  8. ↑ Battaglia, Andy; Matos, Michaelangelo (17 November 2009). "The best electronic music of the '00s". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  9. ↑ References for songwriting credits:
  10. ↑ Vocalcity (liner notes). Luomo. Force Tracks. 2000. FT14.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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