Sistol
On The Bright Side

THE REVIEW

Sasu Ripatti, a forty-year-old Finn, artistically known as Vladislaav Delay - but who operates under the multiple pseudonyms Luomo, UUsitalo, and indeed Sistol - boasts a decidedly indigenous approach within the icy electro-and-derivatives realm, thanks to a diverse production often yielding results worthy of interest.

"On The Bright Side," the second album branded by Sistol, made available in the concluding phases of the last decade, fits without particular distress into this sparse category.

An impactful and engaging blend of stroboscopic techno exorcisms, iridescent dub lapilli, and cyclothymic rave remnants, purged of dance-floor trivialities, permeates the eight proto-mantras contained herein, where a considerable degree of sound research and layered amalgamations adopted can be perceived, decidedly gratifying for those accustomed to inducing sound-sidereal abstractions onto their brains and defiling their antennas with this type of robotic and heart rate monitor sound-bulges.

Accompanied, ça va sans dire, by a nice dish of Lutefisk from the Nibelungen fjords.