Bleep

Sasu Ripatti’s Vladislav Delay project is in something of a renaissance of late, with newer releases sharing cultural cache with the Finnish man’s influential earlier works. A major part of this multi-part boom has been the Berlin label Keplar’s expansive reissue/remaster campaign of Delay’s (often hard to find) back catalogue. Keplar continues this loving exercise with the 2000 LP Entain, originally released by Mille Plateaux. Restored to all its former glory with the full tracklist (and song lengths) for the very first time on vinyl, Delay eschews even further from the dancefloor here on what can be considered his proper debut full length, embracing dense abstraction and haunting stillness on tracks like ‘Poiko’ and both untitled numbers.