Oneohtrix Point Never/Rene Hell - Split LP

NNA051: Oneohtrix Point Never / Rene Hell split LP

Release date: 18th September 2012

NNA’s second split LP unites two American artists on the cutting edge of experimental electronic music: Brooklyn’s Oneohtrix Point Never and Los Angeles’ Rene Hell. Daniel Lopatin and Jeff Witscher have each been working tirelessly in the US underground for the last several years, releasing progressive, forward-thinking, and highly acclaimed music under a wide variety of guises and manifestations. In 2012, we see them each offering their respective unique visions and interpretations of digital music in the modern world, processing the world around us through the lens of technology and modern sound.

Oneohtrix Point Never brings us “Music For Reliquary House”, which consists of sonic reworkings from the “Reliquary House” audio/visual installation, a collaboration between Lopatin and video artist Nate Boyce. In a series of five pieces, Lopatin delivers a sequence of hallucinatory informatic assaults, a satirical re-envisioning of modernist sculpture. Picking up where 2011′s “Replica” left off, OPN uses digital technology to dissect human speech patterns and timbres almost beyond recognition. Via computer, Lopatin converts pieces of text to human speech, only to dismantle it entirely, surgically reassembling the scraps of frequencies and the shrapnel of pure sound into something new altogether… starkly melodic at times, but altogether harsh and inhuman as a whole.

Rene Hell presents “In 1980 I Was A Blue Square”, a suite of five pieces for piano, synthesizer, and computer. Juxtaposing mid 20th century classical music with chaotic electronic blasts, Witscher creates his own style of contemporary music that is peaceful and violent on top of itself, creating a rift of confusion that sits nicely between more vast, soundscape-like vignettes. Witscher’s previous forays into the worlds of noise and ambient are tastefully apparent here, indicative of an artist who is able to retain a broad array of influences and use them in a way that is both personal and original.

Mastered and cut by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

egads, what fustian prose!

there are plenty of lols to choose from but this might be my personal fave:

"a sequence of hallucinatory informatic assaults, a satirical re-envisioning of modernist sculpture"

hahaha

Alcofribas needs to get a job writing press releases...

I've probably talked enough shit on WATMM in the last 24 hours but this is pretty dull, it's like the wankier bits of Matmos' "A Chance to Cut" vs. Ben Folds on solo piano. WTF Daniel

lol, that write up was so distracting i didn't even notice there were samples.

obviously these are works by artists on the cutting edge of experimental electronic music.

I think CoH did it a bit better with the ol' 'Plays Cosey' album:

(IMO the best track from that album)

The OPN sample kind of sounds like Clams Casino got really high & said "okay guys I'm gonna make the best Imogen Heap remix EVER" but he was so high he never moved beyond the "strange ambient vocal sample" bit at the start of the song

not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet will have to listen more

  On 8/22/2012 at 9:51 PM, Cryptowen said:

The OPN sample kind of sounds like Clams Casino got really high & said "okay guys I'm gonna make the best Imogen Heap remix EVER" but he was so high he never moved beyond the "strange ambient vocal sample" bit at the start of the song

 

not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet will have to listen more

Well maybe it's not fully representive as a sample for the whole LP but nevertheless I like the new direction from OPN on this. Yeah, it has some ambient-ish patterns but it develops a good portion over the time of the excerpt. Let's wait and see :)

Rene Hell…… hmm, I know his last two LPs on Type and was pretty amazed. I don't wanna judge his side from the excerpt yet, can be something new in direction as well.

The impression I got from the OPN sample was that he seems to be taking the concepts he applied on Replica, smoothing them out a bit with effects & more processing, & probably making longer, more varied songs judging by the slow implementation of more layers

Oh LOL I didn't realize the samples were from 2 different people, let alone that there were 2 samples. What a dumbass. Actually I like the OPN one, definitely seems like an expansion of what he did on Replica finding rhythms and harmony in sort of unintentional portions of vocal samples.

Not so into the other one.

  On 8/23/2012 at 5:22 PM, sweepstakes said:

Oh LOL I didn't realize the samples were from 2 different people, let alone that there were 2 samples.

Apologies for that, I could've done a better job with highlighting the audio clips. Lesson learned for next time!

  On 8/23/2012 at 6:09 PM, jasondonervan said:

  On 8/23/2012 at 5:22 PM, sweepstakes said:

Oh LOL I didn't realize the samples were from 2 different people, let alone that there were 2 samples.

 

Apologies for that, I could've done a better job with highlighting the audio clips. Lesson learned for next time!

Oh, that's cool! I thought I was just spacing out and not paying attention but I guess they could be a little clearer. Thanks!

Available for stream now. OPN's part is amazing. It's like if Wolfgang Voigt redid Replica.

http://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/sets/nna051-oneohtrix-point-never-1

So excited, but really mad that I posted another topic for this. Fucking search functions and misspelling Reliquery.

I think OPN has lost it .

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, Tauhid said:

I think OPN has lost it.

In a bad way or a good way? I think this album sounds amazing.

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, gmanyo said:

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, Tauhid said:

I think OPN has lost it.

In a bad way or a good way? I think this album sounds amazing.

Bad way. It sounds like "free electronics'. Vocal sample manipulation with noise outbursts and other weird shit going on, and then it ends. Nothing substantial. I mean, almost all music with the prefix "Free" isn't very good to begin with (How many great Free Jazz albums are there?). Things should have some kind of structure or coherence.

In a sanity way.

  On 9/12/2012 at 5:09 AM, Tauhid said:

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, gmanyo said:

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, Tauhid said:

I think OPN has lost it.

In a bad way or a good way? I think this album sounds amazing.

 

Bad way. It sounds like "free electronics'. Vocal sample manipulation with noise outbursts and other weird shit going on, and then it ends. Nothing substantial. I mean, almost all music with the prefix "Free" isn't very good to begin with (How many great Free Jazz albums are there?). Things should have some kind of structure or coherence.

I actually think the opposite of that. To me it sounds like Musique Concrète but with actual form. There are emotions and structure behind the sound in a way that sounds intentional, not like some random experiment.

oh wow. this is actually really deep beautiful stuff.

It's a kind of ambient music. Not free music; there is definitely form and there are patterns, just not many beats.

  On 9/12/2012 at 5:09 AM, Tauhid said:

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, gmanyo said:

  On 9/12/2012 at 4:20 AM, Tauhid said:

I think OPN has lost it.

In a bad way or a good way? I think this album sounds amazing.

 

Bad way. It sounds like "free electronics'. Vocal sample manipulation with noise outbursts and other weird shit going on, and then it ends. Nothing substantial. I mean, almost all music with the prefix "Free" isn't very good to begin with (How many great Free Jazz albums are there?). Things should have some kind of structure or coherence.

the ideas and narrative behind this track are perfectly structured to my ears.

edit: did anybody see OPN's reliquary house performance in New York? seems like its coming to london and wondering if its worth checking out.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=13565

  On 9/12/2012 at 10:00 PM, flurobox said:

edit: did anybody see OPN's reliquary house performance in New York? seems like its coming to london and wondering if its worth checking out.

 

http://www.barbican....il.asp?ID=13565

I wouldn't go out of your way for it - from what I've seen of the clips of reliquary house, it's practically a carbon copy of the show I saw them do together last year (which wasn't that great tbh).

don't get this OPN, surprised whats his name Steven O'Malley is not stickin his metal head up somewhere, does this guy ever record

anything worthwhile? always pretentious self indulgent waste