Ilpo Vaisanen
Asuma
Boomkat Product Review:
Maiden vinyl voyage of the first solo excursion by Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen, newly remastered by Rashad Becker and primed to be filed with Ilpo’s squashed electro-dubs as Liima and Piiri, or his partner’s astringent Ø works, for that matter
‘Asuma’ was first issued on CD in 2001 as the first solo work, proper, by an artist who had helped shape contemporary electronic music in the ‘90s as part of Pan(a)Sonic with Mika Vainio. Whilst his bandmate by then was renowned for his solo work as Ø, Ilpo was to make his own mark with this material, which subtly betrayed his input through a tactile manipulation of physical bass pressure and psychoacoustic tones in a way that could be loosely termed arctic dub. He would firm up that sound with more defined, soundsystem-ready rhythms in his parallel and hyper-influential 2001 projects, Liima and Piiri, but on ‘Asuma’ Ilpo left the sounds more abstract, oblique, closer to Pan Sonic, yet also personalised by a bloody-minded focus on hypnotic, monotone, minimalism.
Crafted in downtime during Pan Sonic’s intensive production and touring schedule in 2001, Väisänen took ‘Asuma’ as an opportunity to feel his way between the waves, conjuring eight cuts that manifest a nuanced proprioception and rugged traction in the flow from pendulous post-ragga forms on ‘Autiotu 1’, thru the severely reduced rock ’n roll swag of ‘Autiotu 2’, which arguably highlight the gnat’s tweeter difference between those pre-set styles. In between he sends down the wormhole in the metallic filter phasing of Tukahduttaja’ to styles roughly resembling hardship D&B in ‘Klikki’, and puristic tonal isolationism with ‘Asumaton’ and the heaving mass of ‘Vallitseva’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Maiden vinyl voyage of the first solo excursion by Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen, newly remastered by Rashad Becker and primed to be filed with Ilpo’s squashed electro-dubs as Liima and Piiri, or his partner’s astringent Ø works, for that matter
‘Asuma’ was first issued on CD in 2001 as the first solo work, proper, by an artist who had helped shape contemporary electronic music in the ‘90s as part of Pan(a)Sonic with Mika Vainio. Whilst his bandmate by then was renowned for his solo work as Ø, Ilpo was to make his own mark with this material, which subtly betrayed his input through a tactile manipulation of physical bass pressure and psychoacoustic tones in a way that could be loosely termed arctic dub. He would firm up that sound with more defined, soundsystem-ready rhythms in his parallel and hyper-influential 2001 projects, Liima and Piiri, but on ‘Asuma’ Ilpo left the sounds more abstract, oblique, closer to Pan Sonic, yet also personalised by a bloody-minded focus on hypnotic, monotone, minimalism.
Crafted in downtime during Pan Sonic’s intensive production and touring schedule in 2001, Väisänen took ‘Asuma’ as an opportunity to feel his way between the waves, conjuring eight cuts that manifest a nuanced proprioception and rugged traction in the flow from pendulous post-ragga forms on ‘Autiotu 1’, thru the severely reduced rock ’n roll swag of ‘Autiotu 2’, which arguably highlight the gnat’s tweeter difference between those pre-set styles. In between he sends down the wormhole in the metallic filter phasing of Tukahduttaja’ to styles roughly resembling hardship D&B in ‘Klikki’, and puristic tonal isolationism with ‘Asumaton’ and the heaving mass of ‘Vallitseva’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Maiden vinyl voyage of the first solo excursion by Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen, newly remastered by Rashad Becker and primed to be filed with Ilpo’s squashed electro-dubs as Liima and Piiri, or his partner’s astringent Ø works, for that matter
‘Asuma’ was first issued on CD in 2001 as the first solo work, proper, by an artist who had helped shape contemporary electronic music in the ‘90s as part of Pan(a)Sonic with Mika Vainio. Whilst his bandmate by then was renowned for his solo work as Ø, Ilpo was to make his own mark with this material, which subtly betrayed his input through a tactile manipulation of physical bass pressure and psychoacoustic tones in a way that could be loosely termed arctic dub. He would firm up that sound with more defined, soundsystem-ready rhythms in his parallel and hyper-influential 2001 projects, Liima and Piiri, but on ‘Asuma’ Ilpo left the sounds more abstract, oblique, closer to Pan Sonic, yet also personalised by a bloody-minded focus on hypnotic, monotone, minimalism.
Crafted in downtime during Pan Sonic’s intensive production and touring schedule in 2001, Väisänen took ‘Asuma’ as an opportunity to feel his way between the waves, conjuring eight cuts that manifest a nuanced proprioception and rugged traction in the flow from pendulous post-ragga forms on ‘Autiotu 1’, thru the severely reduced rock ’n roll swag of ‘Autiotu 2’, which arguably highlight the gnat’s tweeter difference between those pre-set styles. In between he sends down the wormhole in the metallic filter phasing of Tukahduttaja’ to styles roughly resembling hardship D&B in ‘Klikki’, and puristic tonal isolationism with ‘Asumaton’ and the heaving mass of ‘Vallitseva’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Maiden vinyl voyage of the first solo excursion by Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen, newly remastered by Rashad Becker and primed to be filed with Ilpo’s squashed electro-dubs as Liima and Piiri, or his partner’s astringent Ø works, for that matter
‘Asuma’ was first issued on CD in 2001 as the first solo work, proper, by an artist who had helped shape contemporary electronic music in the ‘90s as part of Pan(a)Sonic with Mika Vainio. Whilst his bandmate by then was renowned for his solo work as Ø, Ilpo was to make his own mark with this material, which subtly betrayed his input through a tactile manipulation of physical bass pressure and psychoacoustic tones in a way that could be loosely termed arctic dub. He would firm up that sound with more defined, soundsystem-ready rhythms in his parallel and hyper-influential 2001 projects, Liima and Piiri, but on ‘Asuma’ Ilpo left the sounds more abstract, oblique, closer to Pan Sonic, yet also personalised by a bloody-minded focus on hypnotic, monotone, minimalism.
Crafted in downtime during Pan Sonic’s intensive production and touring schedule in 2001, Väisänen took ‘Asuma’ as an opportunity to feel his way between the waves, conjuring eight cuts that manifest a nuanced proprioception and rugged traction in the flow from pendulous post-ragga forms on ‘Autiotu 1’, thru the severely reduced rock ’n roll swag of ‘Autiotu 2’, which arguably highlight the gnat’s tweeter difference between those pre-set styles. In between he sends down the wormhole in the metallic filter phasing of Tukahduttaja’ to styles roughly resembling hardship D&B in ‘Klikki’, and puristic tonal isolationism with ‘Asumaton’ and the heaving mass of ‘Vallitseva’.
First time on vinyl. 2025 remaster by Rashad Becker. Edition of 500 copies, includes obi strip.
Estimated Release Date: 06 June 2025
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Boomkat Product Review:
Maiden vinyl voyage of the first solo excursion by Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen, newly remastered by Rashad Becker and primed to be filed with Ilpo’s squashed electro-dubs as Liima and Piiri, or his partner’s astringent Ø works, for that matter
‘Asuma’ was first issued on CD in 2001 as the first solo work, proper, by an artist who had helped shape contemporary electronic music in the ‘90s as part of Pan(a)Sonic with Mika Vainio. Whilst his bandmate by then was renowned for his solo work as Ø, Ilpo was to make his own mark with this material, which subtly betrayed his input through a tactile manipulation of physical bass pressure and psychoacoustic tones in a way that could be loosely termed arctic dub. He would firm up that sound with more defined, soundsystem-ready rhythms in his parallel and hyper-influential 2001 projects, Liima and Piiri, but on ‘Asuma’ Ilpo left the sounds more abstract, oblique, closer to Pan Sonic, yet also personalised by a bloody-minded focus on hypnotic, monotone, minimalism.
Crafted in downtime during Pan Sonic’s intensive production and touring schedule in 2001, Väisänen took ‘Asuma’ as an opportunity to feel his way between the waves, conjuring eight cuts that manifest a nuanced proprioception and rugged traction in the flow from pendulous post-ragga forms on ‘Autiotu 1’, thru the severely reduced rock ’n roll swag of ‘Autiotu 2’, which arguably highlight the gnat’s tweeter difference between those pre-set styles. In between he sends down the wormhole in the metallic filter phasing of Tukahduttaja’ to styles roughly resembling hardship D&B in ‘Klikki’, and puristic tonal isolationism with ‘Asumaton’ and the heaving mass of ‘Vallitseva’.
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