ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: Replica (Software Label)

themilkman on Dec 13th 2011 01:18 am

Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Replica
SFT01021
Software Label 2011
10 Tracks. 40mins56secs

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If Oneohtrix Point Never has only really been getting noticed in the last couple of years, following the release of a double CD, Rifts, collecting his first three albums, back in 2009 on No Fun Productions and last year’s Returnal on Editions Mego, its mastermind, Daniel Lopatin, has quietly been assembling synthetic electronica since his first semi-artisanal release, Betrayed In The Octagon, back in 2007.

With his latest opus, Replica, Lopatin broadens his sonic horizon quite drastically, adding samplers, tape loops and acoustic piano to his extensive use of the Roland Juno 60, an analogue synth he inherited from his father, which has been key to his entire work until now. As a result, Replica is a more ambitious and confident record than its predecessors. Continue Reading »

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