Still Life (Betamale)'s video (directed by Jon Rafman) explores the darker recesses of the internet and the absolute rot in the heart of the beta males who frequent said recesses. As such, you see voyeuristic videos of niche fetishses like furries, tracking shots of decaying keyboards, the literal darkness of grubby bedroom PC setups to blinding flashes of violent Hentai.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
you know, after the RIP NSFW thread, that was surprisingly not jarring. i am jaded now i guess.
― erect, sporadic, notorious, genitals (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
haha, was about to post the same thing
― Z S, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Gentlemen, YOU are the dark recesses of the internet.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
i'm sorry but i can't read your post due to my cool furry penis i have attached that's blocking the screen
― Z S, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
literally got cockblocked
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
friends of mine worked for the artist who made that vid
― flopson, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
picked up r plus seven early but probably will not listen until after the release date, this new direction is leaving me kind of cold
― the late great, Sunday, 29 September 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
i take it back, that was awesome
― the late great, Sunday, 29 September 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
^_^
― flopson, Sunday, 29 September 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
^\___________/^ ( )
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 September 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
irie
is it vapor wave?
― the late great, Monday, 30 September 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
canyon.midcore
was also wary but now am sold
― adam, Monday, 30 September 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
good listen b2b w/ huerco s
― the late great, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link
The fox mudpool thing is kind of upsetting
The tune is pretty swell though
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
On first listen, I like R Plus Seven better than Replica (the only other Oneohtrix release I've heard). But what I'm really jonesing for is another Ford & Lopatin album.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
listen to rifts!
― clouds, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
He just did a long podcast for XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2013/09/oneohtrix-point-never
― with hidden noise, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
omg this album is so the inheritor of sakamoto's "esperanto"
― clouds, Sunday, 6 October 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j630kEUq6Vw
whoa, ok, now I'm interested!
― original bgm, Sunday, 6 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
i've been playing r plus seven every day and listened to rifts, returnal, replica and r plus seven in a row last night. really cool to immerse myself in the progression of his sound. my brain kind melted tho.
― the late great, Sunday, 6 October 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
get a philippe saisse feel from this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0L8rFqfDAA
― sisilafami, Sunday, 6 October 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
listened to this in the morning before school started p much every day this week, great stuff
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Sunday, 6 October 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
― the late great, Tuesday, October 1, 2013 1:54 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yesss
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2013 00:44 (ten years ago) link
wow, otm sisi!
― flopson, Monday, 7 October 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
i really love all of the sounds on this, but as a whole i find it kinda tiring. maybe it'll grow on me. the album cover is great and i like this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDzaQOSZ3E
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 7 October 2013 03:35 (ten years ago) link
I like it, but not as much as Returnal or Replica, so far. Not sure how much I will want to return to the claustrophobic/techno-dystopian vibe (I certainly don't want to watch that video again for Problem Areas).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 7 October 2013 03:59 (ten years ago) link
others have called the video "disturbing". i'm not sure i understand. i think it's rather beautiful, strange and vacant, but nicely poised between live and memorex. mysterious.
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Monday, 7 October 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
that video always me feel weirdly nauseous - I love it
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 7 October 2013 07:55 (ten years ago) link
vid is kinda hilarious
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Monday, 7 October 2013 10:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah, but subtly, more like amusing
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
"others have called the video "disturbing". i'm not sure i understand."I think this is the disturbing one...http://pointnever.com/
― ringworm, Monday, 7 October 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Live show in London was fantastic last week, 'Still Life' sounded like the end of the world...those chords...tectonic plates....
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
oh dear god (xp)
― pervilege as a meme (contenderizer), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
i understand
What I find disturbing about it is the claustrophobic feeling of being stuck in a virtual/synthetic reality, and a crude one at that. Even as someone who doesn't believe in God, I find the idea of an entirely humanly reconstituted reality nauseating. I guess it makes me feel like Jean-Paul Sartre apparently felt on a regular basis, if we are to trust Nausea. A sickening hollowness to being as such.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 7 October 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
hate to be tha anti-intellectual voice but yall reading way the hell much into gross stuff + coors light cans
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
The thing is, I reacted to that video in a very immediate, gut sort of way, and that's my attempt to explain why. That's roughly why I think it bothers me, but I didn't think about it first. It was a very immediate response. Then it was: this bothers me, why does it bother me so much?
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
Don't deny me the immediacy of my existential dread.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:31 (ten years ago) link
nah, it was created by a visual artist and there are a lot of references in it. magritte, dali, malevich, and the arrangement of objects in the last shot is reminiscent of like, melancholia or something. not that the references themselves make it deep or interesting, but it is at least mining this uncanny valley vibe out of mundane objects, which is interesting and effective apparently, considering the queasiness that some experience.
xxpost
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
for me the unease comes from the feeling of contingency, contingency of the objects that create possibilities for interaction/activity, and the contingency of our memories being based on movies based on memories of books, etc. this feeling that we're so accustomed to things that are arbitrary is sort of horrifying, the feeling of being out on a precipice several removes from so-called "natural" reality.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
He will be doing an AMA on reddit today.
@OPN: Heads up I'll be doing a Reddit AMA on Tuesday, 1pm Eastern Time in r/music.
https://twitter.com/0PN/status/386927255961993216
― crowhurst, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 05:57 (ten years ago) link
kinda bummed by that but w/e, i like this new record a lot although i really really like the mix linked upthread
― Lamp, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, October 7, 2013 8:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
np its cool
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 10:38 (ten years ago) link
Live review:http://t.co/1qqYdjLnC2
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
this album is so good
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 10 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah
― flopson, Thursday, 10 October 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
like a humorous vangelis imo
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 10 October 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link