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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - REPLICA
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IDM , Ambient Downbeat Leftfield, from Daniel Lopatin Main recording alias of Brooklyn-based experimental musician, composer and producer
It's always hard to say if, or when, Dan Lopatin is trying to be funny. That would be unusual enough in a high-ish profile drone artist, and unusual enough to explain some of his appeal. But if he is, his irony is thick enough to pass as anything but. It was sort of funny that he began his first mass-market Oneohtrix Point Never album—after scores of tapes and limited vinyl runs—with a blast of noise, but I don't think it was a joke. There was no break of a smile, no follow-through. The people willing to wade through Returnal's smog of melodic keyboards handled it just fine. They're used to it. His face has proven indomitably straight, even through the molasses-thick synth pop album he made with his sinusoidal friend Ford earlier this year. He's not kidding, even when he is.
His second mass-market Oneohtrix Point Never record is called Replica. This isn't a joke either. Insofar as Lopatin aims to say anything in particular, the title is just an indication of what's in the box: a record formed almost entirely of loops. But we'll come back to that, because Replica ends with what I'm pretty sure is a real, honest-to-goodness joke. "Explain" finishes the 40-ish minutes off with a swell of fake choirs and rich, whole, ascending notes. It's lovely, but it would've been too cheesy even for Returnal's gasping vapors. Here, all things considered, it's pretty funny.
It's always hard to say if, or when, Dan Lopatin is trying to be funny. That would be unusual enough in a high-ish profile drone artist, and unusual enough to explain some of his appeal. But if he is, his irony is thick enough to pass as anything but. It was sort of funny that he began his first mass-market Oneohtrix Point Never album—after scores of tapes and limited vinyl runs—with a blast of noise, but I don't think it was a joke. There was no break of a smile, no follow-through. The people willing to wade through Returnal's smog of melodic keyboards handled it just fine. They're used to it. His face has proven indomitably straight, even through the molasses-thick synth pop album he made with his sinusoidal friend Ford earlier this year. He's not kidding, even when he is.
His second mass-market Oneohtrix Point Never record is called Replica. This isn't a joke either. Insofar as Lopatin aims to say anything in particular, the title is just an indication of what's in the box: a record formed almost entirely of loops. But we'll come back to that, because Replica ends with what I'm pretty sure is a real, honest-to-goodness joke. "Explain" finishes the 40-ish minutes off with a swell of fake choirs and rich, whole, ascending notes. It's lovely, but it would've been too cheesy even for Returnal's gasping vapors. Here, all things considered, it's pretty funny.
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Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing electronic recordings under the OPN moniker in 2007, and received early acclaim in 2009 for the compilation Rifts. In subsequent years, he released albums such as Replica (2011) and R Plus Seven (2013) to critical praise and signed to British label Warp, while also taking part in a number of side-projects, collaborations, and film scores.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lopatin is the son of Russian Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union, both with musical backgrounds. Some of his first experiments with electronic music were inspired by his father’s collection of dubbed jazz fusion tapes and his Roland Juno-60 synthesizer, an instrument that has since been used extensively by Lopatin in the studio and on-stage. Lopatin attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts before moving to Brooklyn, New York to attend grad school at Pratt Institute, studying archival science. During that time, he became involved in Brooklyn's underground noise music scene.
In January 2017, a collaboration between Oneohtrix Point Never and FKA twigs was confirmed. In 2017, Oneohtrix Point Never provided the soundtrack for the film Good Time, directed by Ben & Josh Safdie. He won the Soundtrack Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his work on the film, which included a collaboration with singer Iggy Pop entitled "The Pure and the Damned." The film's soundtrack was released via Warp on August 11, 2017. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.