oneohtrix point never

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

preview of the Ford & Lopatin LP 'Channel Pressure' out in June

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1TsnYJoMEc

Personally I am not into the stuff F&L are doing at all. Too retro for me.

what isn't retro in 2011?

that sounds mint. i dunno if it's just the way it's edited, but kinda reminds me of VHS head. anticipating hard.

vocals sound a bit too max tundra at times mind you

i havent heard the F&L stuff yet, but a max tundra name-drop will keep me far far away from most anything... say it aint so :(

vocals sound a bit too max tundra at times mind you

you put me right off

hah XP

Love OPN, don't like Games/F&O, OBSESSED with Max Tundra. So, weird.

listening again, tundra but with a bit more green gartside thrown in maybe (def an improvement). anyway the second track sounds particularly great.

ya idk guys these vocals are way better than max tundra. also the context helps quite a bit, esp when compared to tundra

loved the Games EP so will pick up the album on sight for sure (unless they raidcally changed their sound along with their name).

Seeing them (Games) play live in less than a month... really looking forward to this.

Will likely drop back to the bar for OPN.

Hah! I thought that was supposed to be all one track...

According to RA:

Software Recordings will release Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin's debut album, Channel Pressure, in June.

It will be the first time Ford (of Tigercity) and Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) have released together under their given names, with previous material always credited to their Games moniker. The initial single from Channel Pressure—titled "Emergency Room"—is said to be a limited edition x-ray picture disc. Due for release on April 26th, it will contain remixes from Gavin Russom and The Bug.

The album itself will follow the story of teenager Joel Rogers, who lives in a time when bands are extinct and the record industry is controlled by a super-computer. An anti-hero, it's Rogers' dream to "unplug from reality and jam in the style of his MIDI-equipped ancestors."

A video made available by the duo elaborates on the theme and provides samples of the music.

Tracklist
01. Scumsoft
02. Channel Pressure
03. Emergency Room
04. Rock Center Paranoia
05. Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me)
06. New Planet
07. The Voices
08. Joey Rogers
09. Dead Jammer
10. Break Inside
11. Surrender
12. Green Fields
13. World of Regret
14. G's Dream

Haha wow, now that is some next level concept album shit

i hear it's co-written by Ben Elton

Ha!

Not really feeling the single so far

So I went to his SF show. I was sortof stupefied from a long day, holding a beer staring at the DJ booth, when I realized I had no idea what a traveling OPN show would be like. Would he bring out a massive rack of analog synths? Would he have some creative way of translating that to digital controllers? No.

laptop?

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2011/04/27/mp3-ford-lopatin-emergency-room-gavin-russom-remix/

Sampler / controller pad attached to laptop, yeah.

hmm. how was it? for me one of the most appealing parts of OPN is the analog sounds ... when i caught him in brooklyn it was juno + sampler + effects and it sounded fantastic

Wasn't loopy enough to miss a Juno, I think, didn't see one anyway.

It was ok. Preyouandi should always be played that loud. Too bad the sound sucked.

JF: “One of the other things totally different about Mexican Summer is that I found it such a turn off talking to other labels due to the lack of actual interest in what we were doing. It was so…brutal. Like ‘oh, I saw you guys on the internet. Want to make a record? We’ll give you $10,000.’ Hell, for that I could buy a computer, and a decent mic pre-amp but still be in my bedroom.”

oh yeah, so brutal. maybe this makes me an herb, but what indie labels are giving bands $10k to make a record these days? especially electronic music producers (whom they saw on the internet) who are presumably self-sufficient as far as a recording setup?

Love OPN, but dude is branching out into some real crapola

^^^