Luomo [ft. Johanna Iivanainen] – "Slow Dying Places"

Sasu Ripatti is a Finn with many an alias: Vladislav Delay (experimental dubby), Uusitalo (minimal techno), Sistol (noisy techno), Conoco (more experimental dubby) and Luomo (leftfield pop-house), the latter of which has become his best known.

If you're like me, whenever you see one of this guy's six pseudonyms, you get nostalgic for a particular Luomo album, 2000's Vocalcity, which, in my mind, is the best house album of any era or variety. It set all kinds of standards for the genre, particularly for minimal house. It showed once and for all that house music can be a thoughtful, moving and highly complex musical form without giving up its backbone.

Eight years and three albums later, Ripatti has yet to surpass the greatness and elegance of Vocalcity. (But really, who would have expected him to?) That doesn't mean he hasn't delivered some clever tracks here and there. His latest effort, Convivial, the physical release of which will drop November 11, ventures into deep leftfield pop territories. He works with vocalists on every track. "Slow Dying Places" is a long, percussion-lite number with lots of buildup:


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Buy the bonus version of Convivial from iTunes.

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