Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts
What:
Rifts
Who:
Oneohtrix Point Never
On:
No Fun Productions
Where:
No Fun Productions / OPN direct
Related links:
OPN website / YouTube channel
Those keen on synthesizer acts Free Choice Duo, Matthew Brown and Hochman and Hopkins will appreciate Brooklyn's Oneohtrix Point Never; one Daniel Lopatin, who similarly deals in ululating tone fields, but with added science fiction ice and eeriness. Lopatin moves DIY trend-interests in 70s space mysticism towards more 80s-tinged, isolate territories in which the overall feeling is less of cosmic peace than of alien unknowing - Zones Without People, as one album is named, cut with dark, Tokyo-skyline type sublimity.
Rifts collects OPN's three latest albums - Betrayed in the Octagon, Zones Without People and Russian Mind - over two CDs, the combined futurism of which is staggering. Lopatin's simple technique is to set scale snippets after themselves, turning ad infinitum as if inside a mirrored box, then to douse the clocking patterns in flaring sounds of solar dawn. The effect is immediate: inexplicable, almost precognitive. Dreamy types with a fondness for 80s sci-fi will queer for these two hours of transcendent pop.
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist
Keywords: No Fun Productions, OPN
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