oneohtrix point never

Com Truise sounds good and all, but Channel Pressure is another level of achievement entirely

This is all a matter of what one's priorities are; I don't necc. subscribe to the whole "more details, more depth is always better thing". sometimes ye just want something simple with fat bass and no dorky vocals.

i guess i think of 'channel pressure' as being only partially about technology (and our relationship w/ progress or w/e) but stuff like time wharp & tom cruise is much more explcitally concerned w/ that stuff, with using the process of making music to comment on the 'idea' of making music?

like: this is a song called 'Oberheim Matrix-6' which was made on an oberheim matrix-6 vs. this is song called 'Synthetic Vision' and it was made on an [...] and has lyrics about a boy falling in love with a robot on telelvision

that is maybe the stupidest post in long history of stupid posts on ilm :/

No I think you pretty accurately described a very real aesthetic divide with this stuff.

com truise remix of hussle club's 'loose tights' wouldn't sound too out of place on channel pressure fwiw

after bad-mouthing this album earlier in the thread, I ended up impulse buying it the other day after seeing it on a New Releases rack. It's scratching an itch I didn't know I had. I guess I like it after all.

stuff like time wharp & tom cruise is much more explcitally concerned w/ that stuff, with using the process of making music to comment on the 'idea' of making music?

okay, but what's the comment being offered? or is it just "a comment?"

http://youtu.be/pukb_scv1Ao

hoops fan in me loves that he's called this chuck person

also the chuck person tape is sooooo good, i say this as someone who has regularly googled sunsetcorp so i can listen to the eccojams

I just picked up volume 7 of the "FRKWYS" series with Lopatin, Laurel Halo, James Ferarro, David Borden, and Samuel Godin, just out on RVNG records. It's really, really good, and I particularly like the last track "Twilight Pacific" with its endlessly repeating Oneohtrix slow melty Juno arpeggio. There's a graininess, a delacquered quality, to Lopatin's ambient stuff that I think sets it apart (in a good way) from the smoother sounds of the Emeralds crew (especially the few Spectrum Spools releases so far), etc. I hear there's a new Oneohtrix LP in the works for release this fall.

Last two tracks on the FRKWYS album are fantastic, a fine listen.

Oneohtrix playing live this Saturday night at The Stone NYC, 8:00 PM...

I've seen him live just this Friday and tbh it kinda disappointed me. but I guess the joke's on me - expected more slow melty Juno arpeggios / "chillwave'y" kind of ambient, got more noisy (at times real noisy) stuff instead. at least, in the end it wasn't boring.

lol i saw him saturday and i mentioned in another thread that i fell asleep in the front row but this is really more my issue than with the music. it was cute how he kept circling his hand to illustrate that he was playing loops. yes i know you are playing loops.

was it a nice sleep? or just the sleep you could have had on the couch, falling asleep to the **channel pressure**

That's the nicest kind! I'm definitely going Saturday, and I look forward to seeing what he does... The venue doesn't sell tickets in advance, and I have a long history of underestimating how much NYC crowds will be into a given artist, so I'm trying to figure out how far in advance to line up.

http://www.dummymag.com/news/2011/08/17/oneohtrix-point-never-announce-replica/

Excellent news.

Clips from the two non-OPN forthcoming releases on Software here:

http://alteredzones.com/posts/1805/software-label-preps-releases-opn-harmonizer-airbird/

Airbird is Ford solo, Harmonizer is Toby Aronson and Greg Davis.

Harmonizer sounding gooooood first time around.

have u heard the tape they did on nna?

harmonizer track seems to be channeling jon hassell, nice. dig the sparseness.

I had the exact same thought. It's terrific in any case.

yeah, and I'll second the nna tape that lamp mentioned. def worth a listen.

have found greg davis' stuff to be a bit spotty but the stuff that clicks really does the trick. and I am really liking the new angle (I think? I certainly haven't heard it all) he's working w/the harmonizer material. could be aronson, I'm not really familiar.

The first OPN single off Replica sounds really freaking promising--creepy cut-off loops that sort of line up with recent Andy Stott and Actress stuff to these ears:

http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12350-sleep-dealer/

hrm... i am a huge lopatin stan but this seems like the kind of tune that could really use some of the immersive sound engineering skills of an actress or andy stott, but instead he's doing the same old midi-fied schtick. i could still maybe be persuaded by a better quality mp3

yeah this is good

kinda reminds me of oval

kept expecting a kick drum to come in but really glad it didn't

what does "same old midi-fied schtick" mean

it means he keeps making his sound more and more lo-fi yet it's still very digital (ie: everything released as games / ford and lopatin), and i think this new track could benefit from the attention to detail you'd find on an oval record. it's like he's approaching the creepy cut-off loops with a chillwave aesthetic and it just sounds kinda flat and annoying to me?

"attention to detail"

U trollin

can you explain? do you hear some level of intricacy in the sound design on this track that my ears are too ignorant to pick up? it's a style that forces you to pay attention to texture, and this texture sounds muddy imo. and whatever pitch that distortion is in gives me a headache every time (not that i can't handle extreme/high pitched tones, just give me ryoji ikeda over this any day)

these criticisms don't apply to any other opn material fwiw

this harmonizer thing with greg davis on the software label sounds awesome tho, some definite jon hassell vibes

ha, looking upthread i realize i am a bit late on the harmonizer woops

This song seems kind of a chore to listen to

its like a rubbish footwork remix of a opn track. the ominous chillwave undertow is the best thing about it

psychgawsple, you likely have better ears than i do - maybe if i had your ears the sound would drive me nuts. that said, this is a track with tape hiss and a sense of unease, from a dude that loves the pathos of dusty gear. the low-quality samples fit. personally my favorite moments are when he gets past that, i'm thinking of moments on the f+l record and much of returnal. but thinking that the track would be better if oval produced it is missing the point.

i'm liking 'channel pressure' but it's a little too jumpy? fuck concept albums imo. there's so many cool moves and great little moments but i just feel like they should all get their own song. i thought 'that we can play' was really moving, this doesn't let its ideas breathe as much, even though a lot of it is a step up, idk

ya i get that the fidelity stuff is deliberate, but i like tape hiss (usually) and i just don't think it suits that style. but w/e i think an album of him attempting similar things from different directions could be great

https://twitter.com/riverscuomo/status/116226967300358144

https://twitter.com/0pn/status/116229792520617984

https://twitter.com/riverscuomo/status/116238295104622592

Haha. The next best thing since Loutellica: Oneothrix Point Cuomo.

OMG, if this happens I am SO over Loutallica.

xp - i know what you mean about channel pressure being both a step up and a step down... did you like the instrumentals tho? if you wanted things to have more room to breathe that might be a good option

lol no way that collab can be bad right?

ooh wee ooh I look just like a lossy VHS of buddy holly

god damn you half cybertronic girls, you do it 2 me every time

"hrm... i am a huge lopatin stan but this seems like the kind of tune that could really use some of the immersive sound engineering skills of an actress or andy stott, but instead he's doing the same old midi-fied schtick. i could still maybe be persuaded by a better quality mp3"

"it means he keeps making his sound more and more lo-fi yet it's still very digital (ie: everything released as games / ford and lopatin), and i think this new track could benefit from the attention to detail you'd find on an oval record. it's like he's approaching the creepy cut-off loops with a chillwave aesthetic and it just sounds kinda flat and annoying to me?"

This doesn't make any sense to me. Actress' stuff is totally lo-fi and very digital; OPN, up until the new album, has worked mostly with analog gear, and not a ton of audible processing. Also, I have no idea what you mean by "MIDI-fied schtick."

Yeah the Oval comparison hit me when i heard this new material live the other week at field day. Id say the closest parallel is the first field album which was pretty lo-fi but had its charm. The Pitchfork track was probably the poppiest moment and not really representative, the rest of the loops were seriously mangled (though occasional hiphop rhythms would surface) and there was a lot more oval style information overload noise like the first track on returnal. Overall it left me puymped for the new album.

Listening again its the field if he was more into theo parrish

Totally stoked for Weezabix Point Never

Actress' stuff is totally lo-fi and very digital

i guess actress uses effects/distortion in a way that doesn't strike me as 'lo-fi' at all? and when i talk about lopatin becoming more lo-fi and more digital i am referring to the games/ford and lopatin releases, he even had a song called "too much midi" fer chrissakes (not to mention an entire album of overblown digital pop). and tho i loved these production values/midi schtick on channel pressure i think it sounds distracting on this new song, like it's being used more in the manner you would find on a ltd edition tape release on a boutique label- sorta slapped on top of the song for effect instead of placed within the song in a dynamic way? i'm really sick of explaining this btw

just chill and ride the soundwaves bro

fer real i need a smoke

Pre-orders for the new record now up... http://oneohtrixpointnever.bigcartel.com/

audiophile bundle is very tempting