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TOTW: Oneohtrix Point Never_ I Bite Through It

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I know there has been a lot of Oneohtrix Point Never love on my site for a the past few months but I have to say his upcoming album Garden Of Delete is my most look forward to this year.

I Bite Through It is the first track released in full from it and we’re treated to something new and allot harsher than we have experienced in his past two albums. Synthetic sounds are chopped and warped in his usual unworldly fair. Yet his work never goes in a direction you would expect it to and this track makes no exceptions. Going from full synths wrapped in heavy distortion to acoustic solo guitar. This sudden change between heavy and light tones really keeps you guessing untill it all the elements crash in on each other and fall apart.

I can’t work out if it’s brilliant or insane but I can’t stop listening to it especially on headphones where the stereo design really shines through:

Oneohtrix Point Never Magnetic Rose At Edinburgh Fringe

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OPN Magnetic Rose Live Last weekend I was fortunate enough to see a live performance by Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never at the Edinburgh Fringe.

I first heard OPN through his album replica and since then I have gone back and listened to most of his work. The main reason I’m so intrigued by his music is I find it very hard to work out where he gets his influences. It seems to come out of experiences and interests that are so foreign to me I struggle to comprehend how they are created.

Watching him perform Magnetic Rose and Bullet Hell Abstraction IV gave me a bit more of an understanding of his thought process. Over 90 minutes I was treated to some beautiful lush soundscapes that encapsulated the accompanying video in thought provoking and haunting ways. This was especially the case for Magnetic Rose where Daniel Lopatin creates an alternate soundtrack to the anime of the same name by director Koji Morimoto.

This Soundtrack mixed with some of the films own audio managed to portray a vision that was somewhere between a dream and a nightmare. Moments of Beauty and Horror were blended together in a way that both shocked and comforted the system. It was a staggering barrage on the senses and has left my mind with even more questions to process about his work than I had before this weekend.

The Music of OPN may be a puzzle I will never solve but I will enjoy attempting to for as long as he makes it.

TOTW: Oneohtrix Point Never_ Chrome Country

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Oneohtrix Point Never creates some of the most varied and exiting experimental music out there. Although over the past few years he has been releasing work related to his commission pieces his albums feel very much spawned by limiting himself to a collection of ideas.

This makes each album sound very different and his 2013 release R Plus Seven is no exception. It blends a lot of sounds from computer synthesis and samplers, especially the use of choir samples. This use of the weirdly synthetic and organic along with its skittish blending of musical styles makes the whole album a complex work to get your head arround.

I have gone back to this album many times now over the past year and still find more complexities in it. Chrome Country finishes the album off and is the one track I go back to the most. The blend of the organic vocal samples with warm pad sounds that all get time stretched into digital artifacts before a pipe organ finishes the track off make for a sound that is truly out there.

Throughout all the weirdness the thing that I most appreciate about his music is that it often leads to an emotional rather than cerebral outcome. Which is not the case with most experimental music.

TOTW: Oneohtrix Point Never_ Zebra

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In a recent Interview on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone. Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never stated that his influence for making music comes from the sounds created when having his teeth drilled. To say his music is not for everyone may be an understatement but for those who like to hear something a bit more out the box you are going to get music that’s definitely unique and for me refreshing.

Although his previous album Replica is a fantastic piece of work, It’s textures and themes are a little harsher then those found in the new album R Plus Seven which manages to round off its edges without loosing the trademark sound that Oneothrix Point Never creates.

Zebra Opens with a very direct melody which brings attention to the piece before the shift into different textures and design throughout the second half of the track. If you like what you hear Onothrix Point Never has created several albums which I would highly recommend: