if i may
― pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish (imago), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
nakhchivan you should check out the huerco s album on spotify
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 September 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
lol i mean "software" not spotify although it's probably on spotify
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 September 2014 04:45 (nine years ago) link
huerco s is sick
― the late great, Thursday, 25 September 2014 04:56 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pf1Ca4HjZk
^^^ so good
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 25 September 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
the best damn song, especially if you have it running in about three different tabs simultaneously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nccERSCPYQo
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 9 October 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link
Ooh, I like that.
― emil.y, Thursday, 9 October 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link
me too though rolling my eyes at the gucci sprite
― ogmor, Thursday, 9 October 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/softwarelabel/sets/napolian-road-to-incursio
i don't know about this OPN-meets-trap type stuff
― the late great, Monday, 13 October 2014 06:54 (nine years ago) link
some of it is pretty cool, i guess
― the late great, Monday, 13 October 2014 06:57 (nine years ago) link
0PN is headlining the LACMA Costume Ball in LA this halloween: http://www.lacma.org/event/costume-ball
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 13 October 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― the late great, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
This one will be a lot of drunk people in very elaborate halloween costumes.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 13 October 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― the tune was space, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ugh (lukas), Monday, 27 October 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
It came top 20 on the 2013 list iirc!
― nxd, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link
the oneohtrix tracks 'woe is the transgression' tracks from rifts is putting me in a Shining mood
― calstars, Friday, 30 January 2015 03:36 (nine years ago) link
― the tune was space, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:24 (3 months ago) Permalink
This is interesting in that it feels original, but it's also kind of humorless and joyless
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 January 2015 04:26 (nine years ago) link
I hear loads of humour in the Giant Claw record! One of my favourites of recent times.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Organ collaboration with Nico Muhly tonight at the Union Chapel. Should be fun.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
That was pretty disappointing on the OPN front, at times resembling a faux Sakamoto and for about two minutes sounding like somebody scrolling through presets on a Prophet 5, Muhly and Mcvinnie both excellent though.
― MaresNest, Friday, 20 February 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Yep. Might be because I was in the front row but the OPN bits tended to completely drown out Mcvinnie. Good night, though.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Saturday, 21 February 2015 11:39 (nine years ago) link
I help out with the sound at the Chapel from time to time and the best place to get a balance between the stage and the organ is the balcony centre (a few rows back so you can pick up the speaker hang)
― MaresNest, Saturday, 21 February 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
Ah ha! I'll remember that, thanks.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Saturday, 21 February 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
the new Co La record is going to be next level
― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Monday, 23 March 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
!!! that's really good to hear. I've loved everything Matt P has been involved in. i hope he picks up the guitar again eventually
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 29 March 2015 03:23 (nine years ago) link
pleasantly surprised by this new EP, was expecting basically more of what we heard from Commissions I. Like, obviously this -sounds- like Lopatin but I didn't expect those specific dance elements in the Bullet Hell pieces.
― misterjoshua, Saturday, 18 April 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
listening to this now. wow. that digital cut up thrash metal/video game boss music that kicks off Bullet Hell 1 melted my face.
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Gabi album on Software is everything i wanted, it's great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcnegYwiQII
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/columns/emily-bick_ben-zimmerman_s-the-baltika-years
― zionsmommy (mattresslessness), Friday, 5 June 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
the second commisions is the first thing ive liked from him in a while
'gabi' has potential for a comtemporary updating of this niche-ish classsic So, How much of an Insufferable Music Snob are you?
― The Fields of Karlhenry (nakhchivan), Friday, 5 June 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
new?
http://pointnever.com
― Jeff W, Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Yay!
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Friday, 21 August 2015 08:03 (eight years ago) link
Don't suppose anyone saw this at Edinburgh Festival last night?
http://www.eif.co.uk/2015/oneohtrix#.VdomGUIdIlI
Did Bullet Hell Abstractions with accompanying visuals from 80s Japanese shoot em up and then a score for Manga film Magnetic Rose. Magnetic Rose was a bit more conventional than his normal output but still packed an emotional wallop.
Really nice gig in lovely surroundings.
― the article don, Sunday, 23 August 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5tRaV3iY0
Better after repeated listens. Looking forward to the record.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 4 September 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
g0d is out there
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
"next level" (??) what? the fuck are these people on?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
i really respect Lopatin for doing something drastically different for each record while maintaining a singular and instantly recognizable voice
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
agreed.
it always takes me about 8 listens before i really come to like each new record.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
He's like a punk ambient Autechre.
― octobeard, Thursday, 24 September 2015 07:23 (eight years ago) link
kinda .. I don't get a punk vibe so much as, honestly, a millenial hipster vibe - and i mean that in the best possible way. pop/r&b as foundational. self-reflexivity, the ecstasy of influence.
and all of that coexists in his work with sounds and melodies so beautiful it makes me feel like i understand life's possibilities better ... shit.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 24 September 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
the sound palette of R Plus Seven is still somewhat off-putting.. super synthetic, plastic, devoid of 'dirty' textures. it's interesting how the 'lush' parts (subjective) are so brief and fleeting, where returnal is super lush throughout (for the most part). lost interest with replica, parts of it recall philip jeck for me, but more rigid. the cut-up, repetitive, pitched up/down elements felt one-dimensional (moreso w/r+7). this (Garden of Delete) sounds more developed than r+7.. still haven't heard it in its entirety, but "Mutant Standard" is kick-ass. the music feels more rigid than autechre's, as plastic and fluid as it might be.. with autechre i get a sense of multiple patterns moving simultaneously, interlocking at parts, and completely ignorant of one another at parts.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
"Child of Rage" sorta recalls late-period oval, with the physical modeling (guitar?) elements, but way more fleshed out (OPN)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
the sound palette of R Plus Seven is still somewhat off-putting.. super synthetic, plastic, devoid of 'dirty' textures.
R+7 is my favorite of his bc of this. "Problem Areas" is one of the meanest and most disturbing songs I've ever heard
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
it's definitely the cleanest, shiniest, most sterile-sounding music in my CD collection, which is why i've held onto it.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 24 September 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
the sound palette of R+7 is awesome
― ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 24 September 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
I get the punk vibe from his attitude on the more recent releases, I guess. Maybe it's just the confidence he's displaying. Either way, he's awesome and I'm looking forward to GoD
― octobeard, Friday, 25 September 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
The punk vibe is the randomness of the edits, sounds etc. - a kind of homespun thing where limitations become strengths. It occassionally sounds like he's just messing about but obviously I've no idea if that's true - he just as likely slaved over every random snippet.
― everything, Friday, 25 September 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
electric guitar on "Lift" is so ridiculous.. haha. the abundance of pitched up/down vocal snippets kills it for me, as with Holly Herndon's recent full-length. there's a flimsiness about those vocal bits, they're just sort of shit-sounding.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 25 September 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
It occassionally sounds like he's just messing about but obviously I've no idea if that's true - he just as likely slaved over every random snippet.
I mean he said for Replica that he kinda put some loops together and jammed, so I'm sure you're right sometimes, but Returnal has crazy sculpted noise, R+7 is eerily shiny chrome ... haven't made enough electronic music to judge but dude strikes me as having crazy technical chops. but i think what you're saying about limitations becoming strengths is definitely part of his aesthetic.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 25 September 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link