Oneohtrix Point Never (USA) |
Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin, a US native whose work has brought him to the forefront of the modern electronic composition scene. Although Lopatin’s rise seemed meteoric following the praise for his double disc anthology “Rifts” (coveted by the likes of Wire, Pitchfork, Fader, Guardian UK, The Quietus, and XLR8R), it is the result of a love affair with polyphonic synthesizers dating back to childhood jam sessions with his father’s Juno 60; an instrument which, like B.B. King’s...
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Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin, a US native whose work has brought him to the forefront of the modern electronic composition scene. Although Lopatin’s rise seemed meteoric following the praise for his double disc anthology “Rifts” (coveted by the likes of Wire, Pitchfork, Fader, Guardian UK, The Quietus, and XLR8R), it is the result of a love affair with polyphonic synthesizers dating back to childhood jam sessions with his father’s Juno 60; an instrument which, like B.B. King’s Lucille, he has never left behind.
Audiences in the last year have gravitated to OPN?s profound arrangements, which manage to touch upon both mainstream and discarded electronic music histories; merging the structural freedom of noise with the abstract emotionality of work considered by many to be ‘background music’; in fact his passion to find personal meaning in failed new age utopias and liminal science fiction environments often brings his compositions to the refracted brinks of minimalism, drone, proto-techno, noise and pop; clarifying the past through a blissful repetition of its’ sonic signifiers. The sound of OPN is history filtered through modern process with an emphasis on structure and a humanness that resounds in its melodies; if one can communicate efficiently within the realm of electronic music, OPN reveals itself as a project with a zeal for expression, an emotive blinking light on the cold horizon. (Steve Lowenthal)
“Rifts” received an 8.0 on Pitchfork Media, as well as being coveted as the #2 record of 2009 by Wire Magazine.
Lopatin has released music on the iconic NYC-based noise label No Fun Productions, and has a forthcoming record coming out on Editions Mego. In May at La Geode in Paris, Lopatin will share the stage with 1970s krautrock legend Manuel Göttsching. He has also played alongside acts such as Wolf Eyes, Thurston Moore, Hair Police, Excepter, Okkyung Lee, Carlos Giffoni and Keith Fullerton Whitman.
He also runs the Upstairs CDR label, which as part of a monthly showcase at Coco 66 in Brooklyn, highlights emerging talent from the experimental music scene in NYC.
Lopatin’s first multi-channel sound installation will premier as part of Anne Hilde Neset’s Sonic Tank exhibit at Tou Scene in Norway, which also includes work by Kim Gordon, Charlemagne Palestine, Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi and Ellen Fullman. He has collaborated on multimedia projects with artists such as Nate Boyce and Justin Craun, and has remixes in the works with labels such as Warp, Merok and Institubes.
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