Vocalcity cover

Vocalcity

Released

By the time Vocalcity was released, Finnish producer Vladislav Delay had already made a name for himself with his grainy ambient-electronica productions. On albums like Entain and Ele, the music slowly mutated, as though the producer was watching pastel colours slow-bloom and marble in water. It was intoxicating stuff. So when Vocalcity dropped, his first house album, it was a surprise – but not completely; that same interest in slow mutation was present, it was just cloaked in the genre’s signifiers. The result was perhaps the first ‘microhouse’ album, if you’re seduced by sub-genre talk, though maybe it’s better to think of it as a washed-out, dazed album by Blaze, the textures stretched near to snap, flexible and gloopy, the rhythms continuously catching up with themselves, while vocalists repeat one of two phrases, in infinite permutation. A mantra lost on a stranded dancefloor.

Jon Dale

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