oneohtrix point never reddit AMA

god this guy is fucking everywhere all of a sudden. warp must have a lot riding on this album.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/oneohtrix-point-nevers-daniel-lopatin-on-why-he-ha,103898/

I'm starting to hate OPN Replica+. This type of publicity is really annoying.

i liked opn after he was niche indie review blog famous but before he was major indie review blog famous wheres my free hat

  On 10/9/2013 at 3:03 AM, logakght said:

I'm starting to hate OPN Replica+. This type of publicity is really annoying.

GODDFUCKINGDAMMIT PUBLICITY

you guys i listened to artist x when he only had release x and it made me feel y and no one will ever feel y like i y'd ever again

jesus fucking christ this thread super rustled some major jimmies

i don't hate him, he's one of my favorite artists, i just find it amusing how much press he's doing in relation to this album. it's such a weird disconnect where the music still isn't exactly accessible, but it's being treated like a cultural event, like he's been this major figure in electronic music for years. i dunno, he popped up on fucking grantland talking about the nba. lol

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"there's also jams inside of jams inside of jams all over the record based on straight up intuitive jamming. even macro level structures on the album are intuitive."

  On 10/9/2013 at 3:58 AM, zaphod said:

i don't hate him, he's one of my favorite artists, i just find it amusing how much press he's doing in relation to this album. it's such a weird disconnect where the music still isn't exactly accessible, but it's being treated like a cultural event, like he's been this major figure in electronic music for years. i dunno, he popped up on fucking grantland talking about the nba. lol

it is surreal - but that's power the tastemaker outlets yield - I can say the same of Grimes, Nicolas Jaar, James Blake, the entire labels of UNO and Tri Angle. I didn't check out Grimes out of stubborness. It's even more surreal when the fall on the wayside as genre hype dies (microhouse, dance-punk, and electrohouse all took a dive in popularity after the mid-00s - likewise Kompakt, DFA, and Ed Banger are simply not spoken of much anymore on pfork, RA, xltronic, etc)

the amount of wordage i've processed from lopatin in the last week far outweighs the amount of useful information i've gleaned from listening to his new record.. still hoping it "opens up"

FFFFFFFFFUUUUCCCCKKKKKK

sorry

Hhehe I like that Candlebox piece.

None of this is helping me make heads or tails of the album. It's impenetrable, but not obtrusive enough to bother turning it off.

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3. do you pal around with any of the other warp artists? it's my dream to hang out with autechre or richard james someday.

3. all of them. give me your number i'll put you in touch

lol

  On 10/9/2013 at 5:08 AM, doublename said:

None of this is helping me make heads or tails of the album. It's impenetrable, but not obtrusive enough to bother turning it off.

  On 10/9/2013 at 5:49 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 10/9/2013 at 5:08 AM, doublename said:

None of this is helping me make heads or tails of the album. It's impenetrable, but not obtrusive enough to bother turning it off.

 

  On 10/4/2013 at 5:49 AM, Alcofribas said:

I give this: pretentious donkey kong country/10

 

That about sums it up. As it DKC hadn't caused me enough grief.

I'm actually not surprise. The album has that special uniqueness quality, crazy videos, a couple of masterpiece tracks like still life, chrome country, problem areas, americans, possibly zebra. This album is damn excellent, 10/10 in my book.

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[–]0neohtrixVerified[S] 26 points

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while that's a nice sounding answer, he seems to be avoiding entirely the crux of that assessment. It seems like he'd rather be really casually obtuse about his answers regarding the 'preset' sounds rather than just answering it in a straight forward understandable manner. Sort of a running theme I've noticed since he's been couching his techniques in a quasi intellectualism post Replica era

edit: for example his 'meta' take on what midi means, as events in time. clearly the person asking him that was referring to an era of general midi sound libraries that defined an era of computer gaming, which had a very specific dated and cheesy sound.

Tom Jenkinson is ghost-writing those fucking answers, jesus.

He is definitely going on the do-not-read list as far as interviews go. I can only hope he pissed himself in laughter as he typed that.

  On 10/10/2013 at 12:32 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

while that's a nice sounding answer, he seems to be avoiding entirely the crux of that assessment. It seems like he'd rather be really casually obtuse about his answers regarding the 'preset' sounds rather than just answering it in a straight forward understandable manner. Sort of a running theme I've noticed since he's been couching his techniques in a quasi intellectualism post Replica era

 

edit: for example his 'meta' take on what midi means, as events in time. clearly the person asking him that was referring to an era of general midi sound libraries that defined an era of computer gaming, which had a very specific dated and cheesy sound.

quasi intellectual is a really good description of his recent interviews. i read them and come away not really knowing anymore about his intent than before.

Whatever his interview technique is like his XLR8R mix is lush

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2013/09/oneohtrix-point-never

Listen

  On 10/9/2013 at 10:08 PM, funkaholic said:

there is an awful rolling stone review of R+7 which describes you as "On the rise from an experimental underground that prizes...spaced-out vintage synths." but, your music doesn't really place such a high premium on these vintage, analog synths as it used to; in fact, you've kind've gone the opposite way, using progressively less 'cool' sounds, to the point where you're often using just generic midi presets. could you talk more about this move, and how you kind've untethered yourself from your old Juno and began to work in the more abstract way you do now?

 

 

 

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[–]0neohtrixVerified[S] 26 points

 

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final one --

'generic' is an idea about presets that is mostly cultural. its a problematic differentiator because it presupposes that there is a 'real'. when i remove the difference between real and generic i can approach music production in a materials-oriented way, manipulating the affects themselves, instead of being used by them, to reinforce their stereotypes, histories, etc. this doesn't disqualify 'real' sounds, in fact it gives them a chance to morph which is crucial for me. its about flattening all those differences. midi is just a way to deal w/ digital events in time, so its kind of interesting that its thought of as a 'texture'. i actually love that. in reviews also i notice a lot of references to plastic-sounding things, but little conversation about plasticity, which is what its all about for me

 

omflol is this really lopatin? this is how this guy talks? haha, what an ass.

he used the term "affective disorder" so many times that it gave me an affective disorder.

He talks almost exactly like my schizophrenic friend: in lofty-sounding abstract buzzwords, with what seems like a complete disregard for clarity.