Sasu Ripatti is the Finnish electro-acoustic auteur behind the Vladislav Delay, Luomo and Uusitalo monikers, as well as part of a recent high profile collaboration with Moritz Von Oswald & Max Loderbauer as the MvO Trio. We've been engrossed by his work since his first transmissions on Berlin's Chain Reaction and his own Huume imprint reached us well over a decade ago, introducing us to a world of dislocated dub sounds, unstable rhythm vectors and vast atmospheres created by a pioneer of electronic sound construction. Since those vital early experiments, Ripatti has applied himself to various projects ranging from vocal house music as Luomo, future-skanking dancefloor rhythms as Uusitalo and spatialized techno-pop as AGF/Delay alongside talented beau Antye Greie-Fuchs. But Ripatti is at his best as Vladislav Delay, indulging in his most engrossing soundscape sculptures and re-crafting dub templates into something almost intangible. Unlike many who work with abstract sound forms, Delay's compositions have always managed to find that balance between organic human understanding, and severely synthetic processing, creating a sound that's as mysterious and coldly surreal as his homeland, and equally as beautiful.