Oneohtrix Point Never + Helm @Brud: Leeds 23/11

drumsnotdead · 11.12.2011, 05:16 AM

Room 237... Oneohtrix Point Never (Brooklyn, U.S) + HELM (PAN/Luke Younger/Birds Of Delay) 23/11/11
£7.50 advance
http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16031-replica/ - 8.8 review in pitchfork
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/135891
Probably the most talked about non-club electronic musician over the last few years. He has even has his music remixed by Antony (Antony & the Johnsons and Fennesz)
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.

"OPN has guile and a naivety that locates his music in the grandest
tradition of sonic dream-craft." -FACT

‘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.
OPN + Nate Boyce live AV show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBzxtSyKUk
Live vid on Pitchfork TV
http://pitchfork.com/tv/tunnelvision/15 ... xlC3MUcUS4
fan video for 'Betrayed In The Octagen'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8IfRN22yFs

the ikara cult · 11.12.2011, 07:48 PM

I saw Helm supporting Mark McGuire the other week and it was utterly insipid. Sorry Helm

11.12.2011, 05:16 AM	#1
drumsnotdead empty page Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 28	Room 237... Oneohtrix Point Never (Brooklyn, U.S) + HELM (PAN/Luke Younger/Birds Of Delay) 23/11/11 £7.50 advance http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16031-replica/ - 8.8 review in pitchfork http://www.wegottickets.com/event/135891 Probably the most talked about non-club electronic musician over the last few years. He has even has his music remixed by Antony (Antony & the Johnsons and Fennesz) 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. "OPN has guile and a naivety that locates his music in the grandest tradition of sonic dream-craft." -FACT ‘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. OPN + Nate Boyce live AV show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBzxtSyKUk Live vid on Pitchfork TV http://pitchfork.com/tv/tunnelvision/15 ... xlC3MUcUS4 fan video for 'Betrayed In The Octagen' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8IfRN22yFs
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11.12.2011, 07:48 PM	#2
the ikara cult invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London sink Posts: 4,576	I saw Helm supporting Mark McGuire the other week and it was utterly insipid. Sorry Helm __________________ "It is absolutely ridiculous, they are behaving like a cult" - The Vatican
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