oneohtrix point never

Everything since Returnal (including parts of that record) has suffered from a Drive To Communicate Big Ideas. There's more profundity in a Roland ripping perfectly processed beautiful arpeggios than in exploring memory or nostalgia or whatever kinds of "important ideas" he seems to be attempting to communicate.

a Roland ripping perfectly processed beautiful arpeggios

but he still does this

Meh. I love his old stuff, but if he was still just cranking that out, it'd get real tired IMO. Rifts is enough. Felt like he was basically a revivalist act there in the beginning. A good one, but still beholden to past artists.

The constant reinvention and forward motion is a big part of what makes him interesting to me. The memory/nostalgia mining was always there, he's just switching up methods. More ~conceptual~ about it now, sure, but it's still very pleasing music.

Xp

Rudipherous- it's Takeshi Murata, and he's been at it for a while. He had a clip on the Residents' Commercial Album DVD too, though not in this style.

xpost to Clarke B

the whole big ideas thing is only there to engage with if you need it to be. His music is plenty enjoyable on its own terms without having to worry about the meaning of it all.

idk what ideas music can express

The video installation that accompanied the moma ps1 set this afternoon was kind of tedious, especially toward the end. Was anyone else there?

how is he live?

i thought pretty good (and VERY loud) but i saw him in a church and the ambience helped influence the experience considerably

http://crackmagazine.net/music/oneohtrix-point-never/ :)

last time I saw him (2011?) not great

but I'll be going to his SF show, despite terrible venue, because R+7

considering heading to this tonight... for people that have seen him on this tour, how was it? $16 isn't terrible i guess

Zebra still makes me cry

upthread i said that the video component of his show was "tedious" but now i think this is wrong. those lonely, crude, amorphous cgi shapes haunt me to this day. they just all seemed so LONELY.

My girlfriend described his visuals from a few years back as a like a "corporate logo hallucinating." Thought that was otm.

ha yes! good descrip

revived this to say i went down a youtube clickhole of Flim & the BB's tracks (my parents had seriously bad taste) and, well, i wonder if mr. 1-0 is into them? google reveals only two common mentions on the whole internet

I listened to the entire Rifts box set front to back last weekend. it was quite good, but IMO R Plus Seven trumps anything in here.

DEFINITELY go see him live, however. his set at Big Ears back in March was so great that I didn't even think about leaving early to catch the Jonny Greenwood thing (although I ended up catching the last 30 minutes of it and it was totally badass). he's not a particularly dynamic performer - it was very much one of those electronic music sets where it looks like the artist is just aggressively checking his email - but who gives a shit when the music + the visuals just engulf you. A++++ would absolutely see again.

i like some oneohtrix stuff all right -- "zebra" is totally a highlight -- but ford & lopatin! i want more stuff like that.

i think i probably underrated R Plus Seven at the time. i've always kinda likes OPN but never really delved that deeply into his catalog, but R Plus Seven stands out in my memory as a distinct, fascinating album. the video for Problem Areas really kinda hooked me into it.

i love when his juno gets all melodic whiny g-funk ("memory vague", "andro", etc)

I don't know who Gabi is, but this new song on Software is tremendous if you like stuff like Julia Holter or Katie Gately:
https://bleep.com/release/54535-gabi-koo-koo

New Suicideyear album is great too - gaseous 0PN-style melodies on top of some booming bass heft

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

wait, i've only just clocked the sad trap MBV cover at the end of this suicideyear record

Yeh the Suicideyear is real good
Last track gave me restaurant-panpipe-covers vibes

it is quite funny! first few tracks are awesome though, the terry riley-esque synths on the first song are especially good

zebra makes me cry

think i may be about to accept this man as my lord and saviour, depends on his next move tho

What if he craps on your lawn?

ive not downloaded any of the stuff that appears in the crudely appended subtitle to this thread

no liability if u download any of that stuff and it turns out to be pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish

i'd feel special. who wdnt

also lol

if i may

nakhchivan you should check out the huerco s album on spotify

lol i mean "software" not spotify although it's probably on spotify

huerco s is sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pf1Ca4HjZk

^^^ so good

the best damn song, especially if you have it running in about three different tabs simultaneously:

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

Ooh, I like that.

me too though rolling my eyes at the gucci sprite

http://soundcloud.com/softwarelabel/sets/napolian-road-to-incursio

i don't know about this OPN-meets-trap type stuff

some of it is pretty cool, i guess

0PN is headlining the LACMA Costume Ball in LA this halloween: http://www.lacma.org/event/costume-ball

i saw him live awhile back, it was aight

it was a big venue where everyone was sitting on a carpeted floor, which i think helped immensely

This one will be a lot of drunk people in very elaborate halloween costumes.

if you want the OPN puzzle-style meets askew footwork w choppy edits/snippets vocal chirps, try the Giant Claw "Dark Web" album- i saw somebody post about it on Scott's "Now Playing" group and it's really good

wait r+7 came out over a year ago? that can't be right. that would mean i couldn't put it at the top of my 2014 ballot.

It came top 20 on the 2013 list iirc!

the oneohtrix tracks 'woe is the transgression' tracks from rifts is putting me in a Shining mood