Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

well there are some songs that have sounds in them, arranged in a specific order. its kind of like a lot of albums in that sense

I really love this record. Never heard something like that before. Its definitely different then what im used to from oneontrix.

PArticularly, the ending is spectacular, the way he uses the voices all along the album. im not good at explaining music in english, but some of this is mindblowing imo.

WAIT WHEN WAS IT RELEASED

  On 8/28/2013 at 2:27 PM, Rulohead32 said:

WAIT WHEN WAS IT RELEASED

  On 8/28/2013 at 2:28 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 8/28/2013 at 2:27 PM, Rulohead32 said:

WAIT WHEN WAS IT RELEASED

It's not, naughty pirates are pirating.

 

ah, didn't think about that -__- So, when will it be released and put on Spotify so I don't have to download it because in fact 0PN is not an artist I follow much but I'm always interested in hearing his music?

It's funny that Zebra is getting so much love. To me, it's easily the weakest track on the album. It's too safe in contrast to the rest of the album, and sounds like it could even be a Fennesz remix or something. That's really my only criticism of the album though. This album was a creeper for me, I had a severe WTF moment upon first listen, but now I can't get it out of my head or off my speakers.

It reminds me of this too much

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I adore OPN but all these Vaporwave references are making me less excited about hearing this album.

  On 8/29/2013 at 9:49 AM, LimpyLoo said:

I adore OPN but all these Vaporwave references are making me less excited about hearing this album.

don't listen to them...this album is OPN doing what OPN does, and it's brilliant.

Whereas in previous albums each track was usually an exploration/experimentation via repetition of a limited number of ideas, the tracks on this album function more as pieces of a suite, each with multiple movements, each piece referencing the other, all done with the palette of new age music. This album is not vaporwave...it is not repetitive. He makes a deliberate point to explore many ideas and sounds and keep a consistent, dynamic sense of progression. It is a symphony of sorts, really.

I heard the album and Americans and Problem Areas are my favourites. Also, Boring Angel and Still Life get me.

Okay, so undoubtably, when the release date nears, pitchfork and other tastemaker magazines will dub this some kind of 'ironic reinterpretation' of new age and a 'subversion' of 'forgotten, cheesy sounds'. Inevitably.

I for one, find very little, in this album, ironic, or subversive, and to compound that I don't find new age music cheesy or forgotten.

I'm just listening to steve roach's Empetus, and honestly, the pacing and alternation between beatless and sequence-oriented is knowingly similar to R Plus Seven. I think OPN's latest album is a continuation, as JOHN ERLICHMAN noted on, an appreciation, a sincere effort in the tradition of new age ambient music (and in equal parts art music / musique concrete...but why should we be so prude as to outline the distinctions)

Those who require music that pokes at their assumptions to be 'subversive' can go fuck themselves.

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:00 PM, Salvatorin said:

Okay, so undoubtably, when the release date nears, pitchfork and other tastemaker magazines will dub this some kind of 'ironic reinterpretation' of new age and a 'subversion' of 'forgotten, cheesy sounds'. Inevitably.

I for one, find very little, in this album, ironic, or subversive, and to compound that I don't find new age music cheesy or forgotten.

I'm just listening to steve roach's Empetus, and honestly, the pacing and alternation between beatless and sequence-oriented is knowingly similar to R Plus Seven. I think OPN's latest album is a continuation, as JOHN ERLICHMAN noted on, an appreciation, a sincere effort in the tradition of new age ambient music.

Those who require music that pokes at their assumptions to be 'subversive' can go fuck themselves.

You raise an interesting point there. For me, this album can be absorbed on face value - it isn't purposely strange or difficult, in fact it's refreshingly honest about its intentions. I'm sure I read in an interview going back that OPN just wanted to take concepts from new age - he wasn't hugely in to it - but rather wanted to have a play around with what was essentially just an abandoned musical genre. He's certainly raised the game for all the MIDI drifters on bandcamp/soundcloud/etc.

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:17 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:00 PM, Salvatorin said:

Okay, so undoubtably, when the release date nears, pitchfork and other tastemaker magazines will dub this some kind of 'ironic reinterpretation' of new age and a 'subversion' of 'forgotten, cheesy sounds'. Inevitably.

I for one, find very little, in this album, ironic, or subversive, and to compound that I don't find new age music cheesy or forgotten.

I'm just listening to steve roach's Empetus, and honestly, the pacing and alternation between beatless and sequence-oriented is knowingly similar to R Plus Seven. I think OPN's latest album is a continuation, as JOHN ERLICHMAN noted on, an appreciation, a sincere effort in the tradition of new age ambient music.

Those who require music that pokes at their assumptions to be 'subversive' can go fuck themselves.

 

You raise an interesting point there. For me, this album can be absorbed on face value - it isn't purposely strange or difficult, in fact it's refreshingly honest about its intentions. I'm sure I read in an interview going back that OPN just wanted to take concepts from new age - he wasn't hugely in to it - but rather wanted to have a play around with what was essentially just an abandoned musical genre. He's certainly raised the game for all the MIDI drifters on bandcamp/soundcloud/etc.

 

I like that a lot. Sort of like how boc said in an interview, rather than doing "retro" music they try to continue music from a previous era.

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:21 PM, Gravity said:

 

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:17 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:00 PM, Salvatorin said:

Okay, so undoubtably, when the release date nears, pitchfork and other tastemaker magazines will dub this some kind of 'ironic reinterpretation' of new age and a 'subversion' of 'forgotten, cheesy sounds'. Inevitably.

I for one, find very little, in this album, ironic, or subversive, and to compound that I don't find new age music cheesy or forgotten.

I'm just listening to steve roach's Empetus, and honestly, the pacing and alternation between beatless and sequence-oriented is knowingly similar to R Plus Seven. I think OPN's latest album is a continuation, as JOHN ERLICHMAN noted on, an appreciation, a sincere effort in the tradition of new age ambient music.

Those who require music that pokes at their assumptions to be 'subversive' can go fuck themselves.

 

You raise an interesting point there. For me, this album can be absorbed on face value - it isn't purposely strange or difficult, in fact it's refreshingly honest about its intentions. I'm sure I read in an interview going back that OPN just wanted to take concepts from new age - he wasn't hugely in to it - but rather wanted to have a play around with what was essentially just an abandoned musical genre. He's certainly raised the game for all the MIDI drifters on bandcamp/soundcloud/etc.

 

 

I like that a lot. Sort of like how boc said in an interview, rather than doing "retro" music they try to continue music from a previous era.

 

The simplicity of the sounds used on R+7 belie the craftsmanship involved. When using sounds that are intrinsic to the notion of 'cheese', it must take a lot as an artist to stop yourself from being led down a path that ends up with elevator music as a result. Many will see this album in that light, but that does the album a dis-service - it is steeped in nostalgia for certain listeners due to the era of sounds being used, but is progressive enough to garner interest from people who may never have had exposure to such sounds. It is both his most interesting and accessible release to date, which is a great achievement, and one that I hope Warp get fully behind.

on an unrelated (to this album) note..

i just noticed that dania shapes - holograd sounds very much to be oneohtrix point never's take on terry riley's shri camel.

I remembered what some of the ultra-bright, clean sounds (but not the structure) used in R+7 reminded me of... (skip to around 1:40 onwards)

http://youtu.be/yvnU5_pIzZM

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:36 PM, jasondonervan said:

It is both his most interesting and accessible release to date, which is a great achievement, and one that I hope Warp get fully behind.

 

i know this is your opinion, but to me it sounds like his least accessible album to date because none of his previous albums had sounds that could have the potential of dividing opinion like overtly cheesy organ patches and stuff like that. I know i'm not alone in the possible guffaws generated when others (fans or non fans) would hear this type of material

  On 8/29/2013 at 6:04 AM, oldenjon said:

I had a severe WTF moment upon first listen, but now I can't get it out of my head or off my speakers.

Absolutely! 1st time I listened to this was at work with headphones and I turned it off halfway through Inside World because the jarring vocal bits were punching my brain. I was trying to concentrate and these voices kept interrupting.

But holy shit what a turnaround after a real listen. I wasn't a major fan of anything he's done before and only really like Replica but wow...I don't know why I like this album but I do...it's definitely weird as hell but I keep coming back to it.

The Arpeggiated part in Boring Angel reminds me alot of Koyaanisqatsi

  On 8/31/2013 at 1:30 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:36 PM, jasondonervan said:

It is both his most interesting and accessible release to date, which is a great achievement, and one that I hope Warp get fully behind.

 

i know this is your opinion, but to me it sounds like his least accessible album to date because none of his previous albums had sounds that could have the potential of dividing opinion like overtly cheesy organ patches and stuff like that. I know i'm not alone in the possible guffaws generated when others (fans or non fans) would hear this type of material

 

youv listened to it twice? give it another go.

the first few times, I didnt like it at all, but now, its been a week I play it a couple times a day. I love this

this kind of music feels like a gun with 1 bullet

it thrives on the surprise attack

it comes with 1 erection

use it well

  On 8/31/2013 at 1:30 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 8/29/2013 at 2:36 PM, jasondonervan said:

It is both his most interesting and accessible release to date, which is a great achievement, and one that I hope Warp get fully behind.

 

i know this is your opinion, but to me it sounds like his least accessible album to date because none of his previous albums had sounds that could have the potential of dividing opinion like overtly cheesy organ patches and stuff like that. I know i'm not alone in the possible guffaws generated when others (fans or non fans) would hear this type of material

 

Yeah, it manages to be his most cheesy and possibly his most out-there. Americans is fucking crazy.

Still only heard the official videos but these two tracks instantly sprang to mind -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN-hBvrI8KQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3hUHrnw2o

Does the the southern strum of 'He She' remind anyone else of the menu music from Left 4 Dead 2?

anyone know what the sample (?) at 1:04-1:07 in Inside World is from?

  On 8/31/2013 at 8:25 AM, thief said:

anyone know what the sample (?) at 1:04-1:07 in Inside World is from?

No, but that track seems to sample a chamber choir piece of some sort at many points.