Oneohtrix Point Never - new album REPLICA out Nov.5, touring UK/EU from 20th Nov
Oneohtrix Point Never is heading out to Europe on November 22 til the end of the month to support the immersive, psychedelic synthesizer feast that is his acclaimed new release, Replica, with a fresh audio-visual tour created together with visual artist Nate Boyce.
Get a taste of what's in store:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBzxtSyKUk
http://pitchfork.com/tv/tunnelvision/1501-oneohtrix-point-never/1898-videothing/#ooid
Replica Album Info:
Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin, a US native whose work has brought him to the forefront of the modern electronic composition scene. Though Lopatin’s rise felt meteoric following his 2009 double-disc anthology ‘Rifts’ and its 2010 follow-up ‘Returnal’, (praised by the likes of Wire, Pitchfork, Fader, Guardian UK, The Quietus, and XLR8R) his love of polyphonic synthesizers dates back to childhood jam sessions with his father’s Roland Juno-60, an instrument which, like B.B. King’s ‘Lucille’, he has never left behind.
‘Replica’, his latest effort, is an electronic song cycle based around lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed “ghost vocals” which serve as narration for Lopatin’s signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin’s commitment to his Juno-60 is still on display, but the placid, synthetic surroundings of ‘Returnal’ are accelerated via darker, propulsive terrains using samplers, analogue filtering, tape manipulation, acoustic piano, plate reverb and sub-frequencies. In his own words, ““Replica has as much to do with environmental, broadcasted, and club sounds as it does with more direct musical influences.” The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic landscape.
‘Replica’ was mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Dan Deacon) and mixed by childhood friend Al Carlson at Mexican Summer’s studio, marking this as Lopatin’s first proper studio project.
download free track "Sleep Dealer":
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2011/09/sleep-dealer
inquiries: ned [at] littlebig.org.uk
Praise for Oneohtrix Point Never:
OPN has guile and a naivety that locates his music in the grandest tradition of sonic dream-craft. -FACT
Having softened his attacks and smeared his notes into indefinite shapes, he seems to sever the music from any kind of causality, so that it simply floats freely, morphing, rippling in a dance of infinite regeneration, like some perfect life form. - Pitchfork
"And in its power to transport, to confuse timelines and eras with sonic slight of hand, Oneohtrix's music is deeply psychedelic.” – Wire
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