Multila

Multila

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Rising Names on the Electronic/Minimal Techno Scene. intense Epic Tracks, calm Floating Sounds Beneath and Bubbling Rhythm and Bass Foundation Leading the Listener to Audiovisionary Experiences.

Tracks:

Ranta
Raamat
Huone
Viite
Karrha
Pietola
Nesso

Average customer rating:

utterly amazing
Multila
Strangely appealing...
Excellent album by a man with a strange name
Raw - oh so RAW!

Multila
Vladislav Delay
Manufacturer: Efa Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004KD4K
Release Date: 2000-02-08

Tracks:

Ranta
Raamat
Huone
Viite
Karha
Pietola
Nesso

Album Details

Rising Names on the Electronic/Minimal Techno Scene. intense Epic Tracks, calm Floating Sounds Beneath and Bubbling Rhythm and Bass Foundation Leading the Listener to Audiovisionary Experiences.

Customer Reviews:

utterly amazing.......2006-05-08

the world of techno and dance music has splintered wildly since it's brief flirtation with mainstream popularity in the early 90's. while the post-grunge and hip hop backlash tookover american airwaves, europeans (and a few americans) went underground and created some truly amazing music. multila is a prime example. shifting synths and glitching beats swallow you whole over the course of seven tracks--in 72 minutes. when it's all over you feel relaxed and calm, though you may not remember what happened. if you want ambient sounds to fill the space while you work or converse, put this on. if you want something to examine and dissect, put this on. if you want your headphones filled with softly moving sounds that lull you to sleep on a lazy summer afternoon, put this on. if you want rock or hip hop or cookie-cutter pop, why are you even reading reviews of this album? buy it and wash all that other junk away. this album could change your life.

note: listen to this before approaching delay's release 'anima'. they are quite different beasts, and the latter hardly prepares you for the glory of 'multila'.

Multila.......2006-04-15

Vladislav Delay trudged through the barren landscapes of glitch during the majority of his career, but on Multila--the first wide-released album under his own name--Delay created a groundbreaking work of atmosphere, texture and mystery. It doesn't have much in common with the output of Chain Reaction and Basic Channel, instead taking on the gauzy ambience and barely-there structures of the Kompakt label. Multila is incredibly self-contained; its delicate waves of melody and washed-out clickety-clackety beats are reminiscent of much of the melodic glitch-techno circa 2000, but Multila's world is so fleshed out that it only takes a few listens to realize that you haven't heard anything quite like it. The 22-minute "Huone" actually takes a cue from Delay's microhouse-oriented work as Luomo, but it's offset by the sublime, nearly beatless "Karha," which screeches that approach to a halt and sets a vagely sinister tone for the album. "Viite" and "Raamat" are both standouts, and when played back-to-back, they sound like two sides of the same song. "Viite"'s cold melodic tones and variety of hazy pops and crackles swirl together into a barely-discernable structure before the elements coalesce into an equally challenging dub-pulse, becoming downright paranoid at its peak. "Raamat" follows a similar path, sweetening the melody while flirting even more with dub on its most skeletal level. Multila is nearly flawless in its design and execution, subtly revealing layer after layer of texture until the sounds fully encompass the listener. It's undoubtedly one of the best, most intriguing glitch albums ever recorded, and each of its seven masterpieces contains a breath of inspiration not commonly found in the genre.

Strangely appealing..........2002-01-23

It's hard to convey to someone why they could possibly like this CD. After all, it's mostly crackling, bubbly, dubbed-out drone. But there's method to the madness. Rhythms emerge, and on tracks like "Huone" and the latter half of "Pietola," you might actually find yourself bobbing your head. Even if not you'll probably find the sounds of the album oddly organic and soothing. Proof, I suppose, that "electronic music" doesn't have to mean "cold and sterile."

Excellent album by a man with a strange name.......2001-10-27

There's not much to say. It's his best album.

Vladislav Delay moonlights as a semi-famous dj in Europe, and then spends his sunlight hours as an obscure minimalist with this peculiar name of his. I'm not a big fan of his house music, which is, like most house, bluntly predictable.
But I'm not so much a fan of his album Anima either, which is his best known. Anima is really wishy-washy, despite its awesome cover art.
But here, on Mutila, he mixes his best house abilities, with his more adventurous interests in minimalist abstraction (whatever that might be, exactly) and the glitch movement of electronic.
Delay is someone whose work I like to follow, 'cause he makes such spanky sounds, but it's just that his stuff is expensive here in Canada, and you have to be a bit picky.

Raw - oh so RAW!.......2001-07-16

I absolutely cannot agree with the "too messy" review here - this is definitely a younger, less developed Delay at work, but already the truely original, seemingly random sample-madness is in evidence. I would say though, that in Multila, more emphasis is being placed upon texture; there's less of the field recordings and found sounds to be, err... found, here. The thick, crunchy percussion/clickage, from the techno-inclined Huone, to the glitch-dub of... most of the rest of the disc, and with one or two sort-of beatless tracks to chill with, are all far less "busy" than material on his newer releases.

So where does my gushing over the "rawness" come from, then? Well, it sounds like Delay shoved the whole lot through a well-worn 70s open-reel tape recorder - lending a warm, but slightly muddy feel to the album. It's sounds slightly odd at first, but you'll soon get used to it. IMHO it's part of Multila's charm.

I'm not sure if I could place this album "better" or "worse" than his others, but it's not a bad place to start. I tend to listen to Entain the most though...

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