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I've heard the Hecker & Lopatin album once. I didn't love it. It didn't make me want to investigate further but I bought the CD so I will try again.

I'm slowly getting into it. "Vaccination" was slaying me recently.

The Rifts vinyl set is still out there at some vendors. I bit the bullet and copped it a few weeks back and its insanely beautiful/sounds great, highest possible recommendation. The definitive release of that along with the breakup of Emeralds and the left turn of the last OPN full-length (Replica) and the rise of Ford & Lopatin-type stuff has me thinking "RIP Synth Revival: 2006 - 2012" maybe.

which venders? i tried to get it as soon as it came out and it was already sold out in the handful of places i normally order from!

this is going to be an expensive evening because i just realized selected ambient works vol II was reissued last year, too.

Yikes looks like it really is gone everywhere. I got a new/sealed one off Discogs for $60 just a few weeks ago, price seems to have doubled in that timeframe. Apologies for getting your hopes up, maybe they will re-press it.

Dude is on the cover of the Wire this month. Dayum.

Returnal became a favorite of mine at some point last year, and this year I just caught up to Replica and it's become a favorite as well. Most of the time it has just the sort of sound I want in electronic music (not that I listen to much of it--but I listen to much of Oneohtrix Point Never).

he wrings so much melancholy out of his equipment

Yes. Guess I should make time to read this thread, which I'm pretty sure I've only ever quickly skimmed.

Mexican Summer is doing individual re-pressings of all of the LPs included in the Rifts box set.

a guy i know pronounces this 'oh - neo - tricks' and now i can never spell it right

I have never known how to pronounce it due to no one in real life knowing who the fuck he is. I always think one oh trix and feel like an asshole

well yr a correct asshole at least. it's a pun on a radio station called 106.7

i always assumed that but i only learnt about the radio thing from this thread. such a weirdly arbitrary name though

unless the radio is, like, 24/7 transmitting the sound of modems crying from the other side of a black hole

listening for the first time to the pete swanson track linked a couple months back. wow. was never a fan of his yellow swans, but this is hitting me nice yes indeed. want moar.

Hyperpyrexia is a fever with an extreme elevation of body temperature greater than or equal to 41.5 °C (106.7 °F).[13] Such a high temperature is considered a medical emergency as it may indicate a serious underlying condition or lead to significant side effects.

you should definitely listen to more pete swanson! I've said it elsewhere, but his live show was excellent, too.

wound up tubing a bunch of recent PS. dug a lot of it, though "life ends at 30" is a clear standout in terms of well-balanced noise to beat ratio.
also dig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzfwXogBG5g

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yeah, listened to that one a bunch of times

I have never known how to pronounce it due to no one in real life knowing who the fuck he is.

i know a few people irl who know who he is, they just don't like him. :(

^this. idgi what's not to like?

I'd thought the pun was '1-0-Tricks-Point-Never,' like digital_tricks.no_version

people heard the clinic remix record thing?

yeah, it's good. not a big clinic fan (or a hater), but i checked it out due to the opn connection. like it enough that i'm now interested in hearing the delopatinated version.

track two of 'betrayed in the octagon' is on a serious 'oh thank fuck i found the room with the typewriter and the item box' tip

so is track six to be fair

it's (weird? novel? heartening? on a deeper level terrifying?) how much the early stuff conjures up videogame associations for me but in real life

probably because in terms of tone generation/composition it's not far off 16-bit and 32-bit games (when the latter didn't go cd for their soundtracks ..) but the use of echo, delay, stereo space, recorder grot gives it a different sense of volume, engagement

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New album out on Warp in September:
http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/19/oneohtrix-point-never-signs-to-warp-records-announces-new-album-r-plus-seven/

This move comes with brand new album R Plus Seven, which is billed by the label as being somewhat more structured than his previous experimental efforts, Warp say “the music itself comes as close as Lopatin has ever gotten to anything resembling traditional song structure” which certainly has our interest piqued.

R Plus Seven‘s predecessor Replica was Lopatin’s most developed (and for many most rewarding) record so far, and was proof that the producer had no intention of languishing in the dreamy Tangerine Dream worship of his formative releases. What exactly this might mean for the new record is unclear, but one thing’s certain – we can’t wait to find out.

...but i like the dreamy Tangerine Worship of his earlier releases! i've been digging Returnal most of all recently, since i managed to snag a relatively inexpensive lp of it up in nyc a few weeks ago

Replica owns.

i like the early pure synth stuff too; (cliche alert) the super arpeggiated stuff reminds me of being on LSD; continuously mutating forms, staring into infinity...

I didn't connect with Replica anywhere near the way I did with Returnal, but perhaps I need to give it a more thorough listen.

Album cover's a still from the very rad Swedish animation short THE RAVISHING OF FRANK N. STEIN:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzU1NTAzMDA=.html

yeah i thought returnal was much better than replica

nothing has topped rifts for me yet. it's such a compulsively listenable album ime/o

But how many albums is Rifts actually? I still haven't digested all the material on it by any means.

rifts is three albums and some singles, right?

i agree, it's still my favorite too

Replica is just a totally different beast, imo, barely sounds like the same artist (apart from some aspects of the sunsetcorp stuff).

when the synth choir comes in during "sleep dealer", it just kills me. Just this little subtle thing that evokes so much emotion. And then the playful flute sample that comes in... Delightful.

The RvNG album with opo, james ferraro, laurel halo, and daniel borden is really really lovely as well. More in line with the rifts/returnal stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xGcoDGljrRs

Been thinking of checking out that RVNG record but the presence of Ferraro is like walking through a field on a pleasant day only to slip on a dog turd. Is his contribution suitably minimal?

everyone plays pretty chill on it. he doesn't get all "wacky" or w/e if that's what you mean.

those chords that come in at 1.15 are so so so so creepy

All my favourite electronic artist have or are releasing albums this year. I am so looking forward to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDzaQOSZ3E

Really disturbing video.

yeah....