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Vocalcity

{{Short description|2000 studio album by Luomo}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Vocalcity

| type = studio

| artist = Luomo

| cover = Vocalcity artwork.jpeg

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| released = {{start date|2000|05|23|df=yes}}

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| genre = {{hlist|Microhouse|deep house}}

| length = {{duration|m=76|s=40}}

| label = Force Tracks

| producer = Vladislav Delay

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| next_title = The Present Lover

| next_year = 2004

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = studio

| cover = LuomoVocalcity.jpg

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| caption = 2005 reissue

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.luomomusic.org/?page_id=21 |title=Vocalcity |publisher=luomomusic.org |access-date=14 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901233727/http://www.luomomusic.org/?page_id=21 |archive-date=1 September 2008 |url-status=dead}}

In contrast to Ripatti's earlier work, Vocalcity features a more uptempo deep house sound.{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/where-to-start-with-vladislav-delay-finlands-shape-shifting-ambient-techno-auteur/ |title=Where to Start with Vladislav Delay, Finland's Shape-Shifting Ambient-Techno Auteur |website=Pitchfork |date=4 March 2020 |access-date=14 September 2021 |last=Sherburne |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Sherburne}} The album has been described by critics as an influential release in the subgenre microhouse, which emphasized the minimal elements of house music.

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/vocalcity-mw0000065936 |title=Vocalcity – Luomo |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=1 October 2009 |last=Birchmeier |first=Jason}}

| rev2 = Muzik

| rev2score = 4/5{{cite magazine |title=Luomo: Vocalcity |magazine=Muzik |issue=64 |date=September 2000 |last=Mugridge |first=Tom |page=102}}

| rev3 = Pitchfork

| rev3score = 9.7/10{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4929-vocalcity/ |title=Luomo: Vocalcity |website=Pitchfork |date=8 September 2005 |access-date=1 October 2009 |last=Sherburne |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Sherburne}}

| rev4 = Spin

| rev4score = 8/10{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_SxSP63d7cC&pg=PA208 |title=Luomo: VocalCity |magazine=Spin |volume=16 |issue=11 |date=November 2000 |access-date=28 March 2020 |last=Rubin |first=Mike |page=208}}

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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." 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."

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."{{cite web |url=https://ra.co/features/1144 |title=RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s |website=Resident Advisor |date=25 January 2010 |access-date=19 March 2010}} 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."{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/the-best-electronic-music-of-the-00s-1798219040 |title=The best electronic music of the '00s |website=The A.V. Club |date=17 November 2009 |access-date=8 March 2018 |last1=Battaglia |first1=Andy |last2=Matos |first2=Michaelangelo}}

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sasu Ripatti.References for songwriting credits:

  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.{{cite AV media notes |title=Vocalcity |others=Luomo |publisher=Force Tracks |year=2000 |id=FT14 |type=liner notes}}

References

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External links

  • {{Discogs master|34954|Vocalcity}}

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Category:2000 albums

Category:Microhouse albums

Category:Deep house albums

Category:Vladislav Delay albums