Sistol - On the Bright Side

**azatoth** · May 5, 2010

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Sistol. New Album coming soon + Album reissue
Multi-faceted Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay, Luomo, Uusitalo) will release two full-lengths this summer as Sistol, a guise that's lain dormant for over a decade.

Back in 1999, Ripatti released one self-titled techno record as Sistol, then gave up on the project indefinitely to focus on his other monikers. This July, Halo Cyon (a new sublabel of Phthalo) will release a remastered, two-disc version of Sistol, complete with remixes by Alva Noto, John Tejada, FaltyDL and [a]pendics.shuffle. This will be followed in August by a 12-inch and a new album, both entitled On the Bright Side, featuring all new tracks by Sistol.

Halo Cyon will release Sistol (Remasters & Remakes) on July 27th, and On the Bright Side on August 24th, 2010. Some basic info at www.vladislavdelay.com

already owning his first sistol album, it's doubtful i'll acquire it again. but a new album is always good news.

a blurb from the site about the new sistol album

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...Influenced and inspired by a range of a year’s worth of experimentations – with everything from vividly narcotic flashbacks and memories; to his production work and touring alongside the legendary Moritz von Oswald; to the vast array of ideas that Ripatti immersed himself in while reading aboard long flights from one gig to the next (or when squirreled away at his new home on the remote island of Hailuoto in northern Finland).
Yet almost despite all these experimentations, “On the Bright Side” is a suprisingly bold, poppy record, sounding far closer to a Luomo record than, say, a Vladislav Delay record. Ripatti has taken the brightness of the album’s title and wholly literalized and given it corporeal form with a range of garishly vibrant and buoyant synth melodies, alongside stroboscopic basslines that glitter loudly from one track to the next…each somehow managing to retain an air of practiced delicacy throughout the mix. More info soon.

Edited September 6, 2010 by azatoth