''Ele'' is Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti's debut full-length album as

Vladislav Delay Vladislav Delay is the most frequently used pseudonym of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo, Conoco, and Ripatti, working in styles such as minimal techno, glitch, and house. ...

. It was released in 1999 on the Australian label Sigma Editions. The tracks on ''Ele'' average over twenty minutes in length. Two of the tracks, "Kohde" and the title track, were reworked in shorter versions on Delay's second album ''

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''.

Reception

Allmusic gave it three stars, comparing his music to that of

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, Oval,

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, and Pole and calling it Delay's "defining point-of-departure in defining a new hybrid dub, minimalism, IDM, post-techno music."

Track listing

# "Pisa" (17:35) # "Kohde" (30:28) # "Ele" (17:04)

References

{{Authority control 1999 debut albums Vladislav Delay albums