oneohtrix point never

OPN is cool but I prefer Games. Awesome tmblr.

http://skulltheft.tumblr.com

I know, chillwave is ghey and all that, but I really like Games.

workd so hard 4 nothing

returnal is the sort of drone record a condor wld make. love this guy.

It's all good, but that title track is just flat out amazing.

trying to envisage the sort of music a condor would make

swooping synths, vertiginous arpeggios, soaring chromatic chords

............o0oo0o

really loving the Games EP (reminds me a lot of stuff on the Valerie label, esp. Anoraak)

Odd how you notice the lyrics in the album version of "Returnal" after hearing the Antony remix - is that Antony in the original?

despite the opening track which i can't really deal with Returnal is def top 5 of the year material (that said i don't keep up with much current ambient stuff)

I'm still waiting for OOTPN to click properly with me. He sounds like a really nice guy with a great approach to his work, but I still find Games infinitely more appealing for some reason.

despite the opening track which i can't really deal with Returnal is def top 5 of the year material

exactly

I wrote about that opening track, and why I think it works, here.

the following seven tracks exist in its wake and are enhanced by that context.

this is otm. love this record now.

tho i dont like the opener that much, it has big tactical value.

agree with that 100%

its on mego, it should sound like its on fucking mego

so I thought I had listened to this album in full and didn't really like it

but now I have discovered that I actually just listened to the first track on repeat 6 times and didn't realize it

¯\(°_°)/¯

Hahaha!

I mean, this album is actually kind of nice. not as 'difficult' as I thought it was. not the 'successor' to 'merzbow' I had 'imagined'.

There was a kid on the TEFOSAV forum back in the early 00's who used to call himself Nuclear Heaven and who made a sound very similar to this under different monikers. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the same guy as the approach and aesthetic is so similar. I think I might even have some of his old albums.

its on mego, it should sound like its on fucking mego

― straightola, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yes!

"harsh" track is kinda pretty tbh. one of the standouts for me, tho I still don't love the album.

that new games video is soo bad

bad as in not good, not as in the powerglove

i haven't heard anything by Games as compelling as his OPN stuff

Planet Party is one of my jams of 2010. Someone posted it to a thread before I'd even heard of Oneohtrix and somethign about the video imagery and I was completely suckered into the music and video, so much so that I had to check it really was something from 2010 and not 1985. I know this hauntology/retro thing's been being done since the late 90s, but this was done so well, I was transported back to watching TV adverts on my Dad's old portable telly.

(sorry about my writing, just got back from work's Chrismtas lunch and trying hard not to crawl under my desk for a kip.

the antony cover of returnal is pretty awesome, i discovered today

don't like that v much

yeah I love the Antony/Fennesz remix more than the original. though I haven't really played this album much, I listen to Rofts way more

uh, Rifts, that should say

his side on this is dope

http://www.discogs.com/Tomutonttu-Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Split/release/2291707

Ah, I remembered the name of that artist I mentioned upthread. He was called Acreil, and his stuff can be downloaded here: http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp092_acreil_-_blue_music

Sorry to street team, but I do like this guy's stuff http://www.youtube.com/user/acreil

We invited him to support Agalloch on the NYC show. He declined :(

"Him" being Oneohtrix of course.

that would've been an amazing gig.

3pm, Nil Admirari

11pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeg-6S-vcrI

i enjoyed that quite a bit

even looked up the original, which i also liked, but this is an improvement imo

Okay, so that little bit in the beginning where the 5 minutes of noise fades and gives way to that lush, rolling beautiful drone

this makes me smile really big

^i dug that tons, but knew it was the intention the entire time i was listening to that 1st track and couldn't help that think my enjoyment was only cause of remission and not any real skill on part of the artist going on here.

i mean the trend is so common in p. much every noise show i've ever been to/album i've ever bought that i'm tempted to say it justifies the artist's incapability to craft melody in the first place.

Playing South Bank Centre, London, 9th April with Games as support.

Already looking on eBay for a time machine to take me to that gig now.

http://pitchfork.com/news/41514-games-change-name-to-ford-lopatin-start-mexican-summer-imprint-software/

Why??

Hmm. I actually do love that logo though. Totally something I would have seen on a sub-Sierra computer game back in the day.

yeah cool logo + Games was a crap name so w/e. really want to see that London show.

also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPA3UVX_UWA

software label lookin good.. putting out demdike stare!

also based on that url i thought they changed their name to Ford and imagined that this http://www.performanceoffroadcenter.com/oscommerce/images/ford%20logo.jpg was the cool new logo haha

holy cow be sure to pick up the harald grosskopf - synthesist reissue http://igetrvng.com/prsnts/314

includes bonus cd with reworkings by contemporary kosmische superstars (oneohtrix, arp, stellar om source, cfcf)

I want to hear that remix cd pretty badly

I finally got in touch with Acreil again, via last.fm of all places. He gave me a link to his newest stuff, for those who are interested: http://soundcloud.com/gsn10