'Nostalgia is transformative because nostalgia is innately vagueĪ memory that desires to be total and sublime, but can never be' (from the liner notes of the audio-visual release Memory Vague) Deriving his name from the Boston-based radio station 106.7, since 2007 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER has released no fewer than seven full-length studio albums in addition to a tremendous number of EPs and cassettes. Behind this name stands Daniel Lopatin, born in 1982 in Wayland, Massachusetts. Although the name may (or may not) suggest otherwise, ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER surely has far more than just one trick to show. (from the liner notes of the audio-visual release Memory Vague). ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER remains one of the great forward-thinking, progressive musicians of the late 00's and 10's. There are no two similar sounding releases in Lopatin?s vast catalog, but there is certainly a sense of continuity between them, for by diverse sonic means they express similar impressions or concepts. On his most recent album as of March 2018, Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Lopatin can be heard very subtly alluding to his Berlin School roots with a sound similar to Tangerine Dream's Ricochet and the soundtracks of John Carpenter. 2015 witnessed the release of Garden of Delete, something of an oddity in the already unusual catalog of ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: a raw, post-industrial glitch creation.
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On R Plus Seven from 2013, an even more radical shift in the direction, silence and rhythm play a crucial role in the music. The dreamy quality is taken to extremes by employing sample-based repetition and some entirely new sounds, more reminiscent of the early digital age and the 80's. The style's main characteristic is plundering samples from 70's and 80's soul, pop, and smooth jazz, slowing them down substantially and adding echo in order for the music to sound like a nostalgic recollection of 1980?s consumerist culture.Ī considerable break-off from the early sound can be heard on 2011's Replica. 1, which is often considered the forerunner of the internet-fueled genre of vaporwave. In 2010, using the moniker of Chuck Person, Lopatin released Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. On 2010?s Returnal, his first more commercially-acclaimed release, Lopatin is perfecting that style while clearly looking for a new, fresh direction. The music of these releases could be described as dreamy and abstract yet dense synthesizer-based ambient with an audible influence of Rubycon-era Tangerine Dream and a healthy dose of mechanical grit. Lopatin's early works, including Betrayed in the Octagon and Zones Without People, showcase the original OPN sound.