Oneohtrix Point Never

  On 1/2/2011 at 9:21 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

im not aware of this hype, other than that pitchfork gave their new album a review.

maybe you people should stop reading so many hipster blogs, and you will be able to get into more good music rather than staying away from it because too many people like it...

say what you want about pitchfork but they gave a great review of the latest (& totally brillant) Emeralds record so...

  On 1/2/2011 at 9:39 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

  On 1/2/2011 at 9:21 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

im not aware of this hype, other than that pitchfork gave their new album a review.

maybe you people should stop reading so many hipster blogs, and you will be able to get into more good music rather than staying away from it because too many people like it...

or dont! ;)

  On 1/2/2011 at 9:08 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

 

  On 1/2/2011 at 10:30 AM, Awepittance said:

edit: for all of the electronic music that has gained a lot of hype through pitchfork and places like boomkat, i think Oneothrix point never deserves the hype much more than most of the people he shares it with.

Just outta curiosity who do you think is getting the hype and not deserving it?

far too many to mention, but one that definitely comes to mind is Salem. I lost a lot of respect for Fact mag and Resident Advisor when i saw their coverage of it. Before i had wrongly assumed only Pitchfork and XLR8r do the hype machine recursive feedback loop thing, but nope i was wrong

  On 1/2/2011 at 11:09 AM, Tauhid said:

I love Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, Michael Hoenig, all that other Berlin School shit. That being said, I don't understand how people call out Oneohtrix Point Never as being unoriginal (or untalented). Unless I'm listening to the wrong albums by those artists, his sound is pretty different, imo. The influence is there, but I think that's where it stops: A lot of his songs are too short to even be considered Berlin School, the structure of his longer tracks is more tied to ambient music, his tones are way too digitized, and a fair amount of it is too dense and noisey, etc. Also, his music doesn't have a cheesy, spiritual sound. New Age/Adult Contemporary music is cheesy as fuck. I don't mean to come across as a fan boy or anything, I'm just trying to understand where this whole argument comes from.

very well put, also it's lazy to say he's a 'new age' artist. The people who throw this term around in regards to him i feel like don't even know what new age music means.

i think the new age thing was a joke.. enya is new age..

Rifts.

Ty

Pelham Island Road is an awesome track. I used to drive by a Pelham Island Road where I was working last year.

It seemed like an unusually droney, contemplative, melancholy street. SORT OF LIKE THE TRACK HOLY SHIT

  On 1/3/2011 at 5:16 AM, Candiru said:

Pelham Island Road is an awesome track. I used to drive by a Pelham Island Road where I was working last year.

 

 

 

It seemed like an unusually droney, contemplative, melancholy street. SORT OF LIKE THE TRACK HOLY SHIT

and OPN is from Mass, so, there you go

Most of the Betrayed in the Octagon album is quality. A lot like the short beatless BoC tunes, & the best of SAWII...

Returnal is one of the best albums of 2010

Just been listening to Returnal on Spotify... I was initially skeptical about what new he could bring to that particularly overloaded table but I really enjoyed it. Not sure what, but it's good just to let wash over. It's definitely one to go on my list of CDs to buy when I've some spare cash..

overloaded table.. please do explain, can i at least see some artists that this guy is being grouped with, maybe some of these newagers?

anyone know of any similar "talented" artists?

fuck OPN is boss

I've copied his formula for stuff like Nobody Here, but only as an homage to how much I love that shit.

  On 3/7/2011 at 10:30 PM, Spore said:

I've copied his formula for stuff like Nobody Here, but only as an homage to how much I love that shit.

link?

[youtubehd]0xuaSZP9W5o[/youtubehd]

And while this isn't exactly similar, I made it at the same time.

does he actually make music by just slowing down 80s pop music? im curious to check it out

  On 3/7/2011 at 11:39 PM, Awepittance said:

does he actually make music by just slowing down 80s pop music? im curious to check it out

his sunsetcorp stuff, yes. His other stuff is synth based.

It sounds like new age stuff but it's much more dark and warm. I think he emphatizes better the emotions he wants to transmit than most noise ambient artists.

that's kind of a surprise, listening to his sunsetcorp stuff is literally sounds like slowed/pitched down loops with little to no alterations made. Interesting, kind of like an ambient take on DJ screw very simple idea but the execution is good. Id like some of these a little better if it had more progression

edit: i'm very excited for the strange directions sample/plunderphonic culture is going to go.

Once the hip hop world discovers Melodyne DNA in masse, shits gonna be wild

This is one of his best I think (from his sunsetcorp alias):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuCloea96Mg

  On 3/7/2011 at 11:57 PM, Spore said:

  On 3/7/2011 at 11:39 PM, Awepittance said:

does he actually make music by just slowing down 80s pop music? im curious to check it out

 

his sunsetcorp stuff, yes. His other stuff is synth based.

i was inspired to do the same thing. games is like his sunsetcorp vids but whole songs. i made a song sort of like that out of some modern talking song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPvbJOzZf-I

I think lopatin deserves lots of praise for sunsetcorp.

I think the first and last songs on Returnal were big missteps. The middle six are great and deserve praise, and I would be happy if that's how it was released. I guarantee Lopatin finished with those six, but he sandwiched it with those two piss tracks to distance himself, make it more of a challenge for the journalists who would be reviewing it. So when these idiots come into the rainbow middle of the album, they feel like they have been enlightened, but really they aren't musically intelligent enough to put there foot down. The bad news is for people like me who actually listen to whole albums at a time, who actually care about music, there will always be a sour taste when I think of that album. It's just unfortunate really.

Sounds good, Sheatheman.

  On 3/8/2011 at 12:03 AM, Awepittance said:

that's kind of a surprise, listening to his sunsetcorp stuff is literally sounds like slowed/pitched down loops with little to no alterations made. Interesting, kind of like an ambient take on DJ screw very simple idea but the execution is good. Id like some of these a little better if it had more progression

 

edit: i'm very excited for the strange directions sample/plunderphonic culture is going to go.

Once the hip hop world discovers Melodyne DNA in masse, shits gonna be wild

Indeed when I do my Nonage stuff I channel my inner DJ Screw.

  On 3/8/2011 at 2:05 AM, sheatheman said:

 

I think the first and last songs on Returnal were big missteps. The middle six are great and deserve praise, and I would be happy if that's how it was released. I guarantee Lopatin finished with those six, but he sandwiched it with those two piss tracks to distance himself, make it more of a challenge for the journalists who would be reviewing it. So when these idiots come into the rainbow middle of the album, they feel like they have been enlightened, but really they aren't musically intelligent enough to put there foot down. The bad news is for people like me who actually listen to whole albums at a time, who actually care about music, there will always be a sour taste when I think of that album. It's just unfortunate really.

Jesus Christ, this post is such a disaster.