1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oneohtrix_point_never_3734.jpg]] |
2 | [floatboxright:Influences: |
3 | + Music/EduardArtemyev, Music/AphexTwin, Music/{{Autechre}}, Music/BrianEno, Chick Corea, Music/DrDre, Fennesz, Music/GangStarr, Music/HerbieHancock, Music/{{Kraftwerk}}, Paul Lansky, Legowelt, Music/MyBloodyValentine, Tom Recchion, Return to Forever, Terry Riley, Music/StevieWonder, Music/{{Soundgarden}}, Isao Tomita, Music/{{Vangelis}}, Music/WuTangClan, Music/YellowMagicOrchestra] |
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5 | Oneohtrix Point Never is the recording alias of Brooklyn-based experimental musician Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), also one half of synth-pop duo Ford & Lopatin. |
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7 | His earlier work, composed largely of harmonic and glacial drone compositions, reminiscent of the works of Music/{{Vangelis}} or Music/BoardsOfCanada's more ambient moments, has given way in recent releases to a more obtuse, sample-based style, revolving heavily around microsecond-based vocal edits, ''musique concrete'' techniques and manipulation of pop structures. He replaced Music/DeathGrips as the opening act for the Music/NineInchNails / Music/{{Soundgarden}} summer 2014 tour. In 2017, he composed the soundtrack for the Safdie Brothers' film ''Film/GoodTime'' and would collaborate with them again for their 2019 film ''Film/UncutGems''. |
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9 | He can be found on [[https://twitter.com/0PN Twitter]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp3pU3mCxnDPsFHim-4jenA YouTube]]. |
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11 | !!Discography |
12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
13 | |
14 | [[folder:As Oneohtrix Point Never]] |
15 | [[AC:Studio Albums]] |
16 | * ''Betrayed in the Octagon'' (2007) |
17 | * ''Transmat Memories'' (2008) |
18 | * ''A Pact Between Strangers'' (2008) |
19 | * ''Zones Without People'' (2009) |
20 | * ''Russian Mind'' (2009) |
21 | * ''KGB Nights/Blue Drive'' (2009)[[labelnote:*]]A 'split' with KGB Man, another alias Daniel uses[[/labelnote]] |
22 | * ''Memory Vague'' (2009)[[labelnote:*]]Video Album[[/labelnote]] |
23 | * ''Returnal'' (2010) |
24 | * ''Chuck Person's Eccojams'' (2010, as Chuck Person) |
25 | * ''Replica'' (2011) |
26 | * ''Music for Reliquary House / In 1980 I Was a Blue Square'' (2012)[[labelnote:*]]A split with Rene Hell[[/labelnote]] |
27 | * ''R Plus Seven'' (2013) |
28 | * ''Garden of Delete'' (2015) |
29 | * ''Good Time'' (2017)[[labelnote:*]]Soundtrack for the movie of the same name[[/labelnote]] |
30 | * ''Age Of'' (2018) |
31 | * ''Magic Oneohtrix Point Never'' (2020) |
32 | * ''Again'' (2023) |
33 | |
34 | [[AC:Other Releases]] |
35 | * ''Hollyr'' (2008, [=EP=]) |
36 | * ''Ruined Lives'' (2008, [=EP=]) |
37 | * ''Power In That Which Compels You'' (2009, [=EP=])[[labelnote:*]]Collaboration with Total System Failure, released as "Total System Point Never"[=EPs=][[/labelnote]] |
38 | * ''Young Beidnahga'' (2009, [=EP=]) |
39 | * ''Scenes With Curved Objects'' (2009, [=EP=]) |
40 | * ''Rifts'' (2009, Compilation)[[labelnote:*]]A reissue of first three albums with selections from previously released [=EPs=][[/labelnote]] |
41 | * ''Dog in the Fog'' (2012, Remixes) |
42 | * ''Commissions I'' (2014, [=EP=]) |
43 | * ''Commissions II'' (2015, [=EP=]) |
44 | * ''Love in the Time of Lexapro'' (2018, [=EP=]) |
45 | [[/folder]] |
46 | |
47 | [[folder:Misc Aliases]] |
48 | [[AC:As Dania Shapes]] |
49 | * ''Soundsystem Pastoral'' (2006) |
50 | * ''Holograd'' (2008) |
51 | |
52 | [[AC:As Chuck Person]] |
53 | * ''Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1'' (2010) |
54 | * ''A.D.D. Complete'' (2012) |
55 | |
56 | [[AC:Collaborations]] |
57 | * ''Days of Thunder'' (2009)[[labelnote:*]]Collaboration with Mark [=McGuire=], released as "Skyramps"[[/labelnote]] |
58 | * ''That We Can Play'' (2010)[[labelnote:*]]Collaboration with Joel Ford, released as "Games"[[/labelnote]] |
59 | * ''Channel Pressure'' (2011)[[labelnote:*]]Collaboration with Joel Ford, released as "Ford & Lopatin"[[/labelnote]] |
60 | * ''Instrumental Tourist'' (2012)[[labelnote:*]]Collaboration with Music/TimHecker[[/labelnote]] |
61 | [[/folder]] |
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64 | !!Oneohtrix Point Never's music contains the following tropes: |
65 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Exploited repeatedly on ''Again'', which, among other things, turned a voice-enhancing software loose on several instrumental passages. |
66 | * ArcNumber: Several phone numbers with the area code 617 (which used to be his) show up in ''Garden Of Delete''. |
67 | * BlackComedy: OPN's is some of the bleakest out there. |
68 | ** The idea for "Toys 2" came when Lopatin learned that Robin Williams' will explicitly states that he is not to be resurrected via CGI or hologram; thus, this song is about Williams literally and figuratively being revived by CGI against his will to star in a sequel to his 1992 film ''Toys''. |
69 | ** "Love in the Time of Lexapro" is a cheeky title for a song shining attention on the fact that [=SSRIs=], a form of antidepressant, are responsible for declining sex lives. |
70 | * ConceptAlbum: |
71 | ** ''Garden of Delete'' is about (and designed to sound like) the angst of being a HormoneAddledTeenager, with TeensAreMonsters and BodyHorror bits in it. |
72 | ** ''Age Of'' is about an inverted AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence event in the future, with AIs left on Earth who want to be like [[HumansAreMorons dumb humans]] by [[FutureImperfect combing through the entirety of human culture]]]. The accompanying live show, ''MYRIAD'', follows a character named Puppet and his rat friends as they are led through an entire cycle of ages by one such AI. |
73 | * DarkerAndEdgier: ''Garden of Delete'', which eschews the ambient/New Age-inspired sound of previous albums for an abrasive tone inspired by grunge, metal, glitch and industrial music. |
74 | * EpicRocking: "Suite from Magnetic Rose," from the EP ''Commissions II'', is a 19-minute-long live score for ''Magnetic Rose'', one of the shorts of the 1995 anime anthology ''Anime/{{Memories}}''. |
75 | * FadingIntoTheNextSong: Almost all of ''Eccojams''. |
76 | * FakeRadioShowAlbum: ''Magic Oneohtrix Point Never'' is structured in the style of a radio station broadcast, specifically paying homage to the Boston radio station Magic 106.7. |
77 | * FutureImperfect: |
78 | ** His take for ''Eccojams'' is that a civilization from 10,000 years into the future would try to recreate Top 40 hits of today and some decades before, but get it all wrong. |
79 | ** ''Age Of'' also looks at a future civilization: this time, it's the AIs still alive after humanity is long dead, alternatively trying to recreate the past to become humans themselves and praying for death. |
80 | * GratuitousPanning: The introduction of "Format & Journey North" oscillates between left and right channels. |
81 | ** Many tracks on ''Eccojams'' have echo effects that alternate between the left and right speakers. |
82 | * ICallItVera: He calls his own Roland Juno-60 "Judy". |
83 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Four albums, one [=EP=], and one compilation start with the letter "R"; ''Ruined Lives'', ''Russian Mind'', ''Rifts'', ''Returnal'', ''Replica'', and ''R Plus Seven.'' Lampshaded during his Website/{{Reddit}} AMA. This tradition was eventually broken by ''Garden of Delete''. |
84 | * JumpScare: End Of Life Entertainment Scenario #1's music video has occasional flashes of decaying bodies taken from VideoGame/{{Manhunter}}. |
85 | * LastNoteNightmare: "A4"/"Demerol" and "A8" from ''Eccojams''. The former uses a very disturbing flange effect while the latter ends with a sudden wall of static that sounds like a rocket taking off. |
86 | ** Inverted in the context of a whole album with "Nil Admirari", in contrast to the rest of ''Returnal''. |
87 | * LonelyPianoPiece: "Replica", with added synth instruments. |
88 | * LoopedLyrics: All of ''Eccojams''. |
89 | * MindScrew: |
90 | ** The promotional campaign for ''Garden of Delete'', which consisted of an elaborate AlternateRealityGame featuring a fictional 'hypergrunge' band and a teenage alien suffering from 'perpetual puberty' as an influence over the album. Yeah. |
91 | ** ''Garden of Delete'' itself is pretty weird too. A lot of tracks have short pauses, which range from samples of other songs, electroacoustic guitars to distorted synths, [[MoodWhiplash drastically change key a lot]], and one song is just RepetitiveAudioGlitch taken up to eleven to an almost djent-like timbre. |
92 | * MythologyGag: The title of the album ''Magic Oneohtrix Point Never'' comes from Lopatin's original stage name on early releases before shortening it to Oneohtrix Point Never. |
93 | * NewSoundAlbum: |
94 | ** ''Replica'' is a complete 180 from OPN's early work, with the album largely composed of '80s commercial samples. |
95 | ** ''R Plus Seven'' is another 180, this time featuring tracks composed using Platform/{{MIDI}} hardware, sounding like '90s computer music in the process. |
96 | ** ''Garden of Delete'' is self-described hyper-grunge, influenced by the likes of '90s alternative metal like Music/AliceInChains and Music/{{Soundgarden}}. |
97 | ** ''Age Of'' combined numerous discrete influences from several separate eras (including Lopatin's entire back catalogue), along with extensive guest appearances from numerous musicians Lopatin shared a background with. |
98 | ** ''Again'' carries on the style of ''Age Of'' and ''Magic Oneohtrix Point Never'' while also bringing in a rich orchestral layer. |
99 | * NostalgiaFilter: Discussed. |
100 | -->'''OPN:''' It's depressing that people would buy these [=DVDs=] of old commercials and watch them while eating Cheetos. And it's annoying when a lot of my stuff is framed as "ultra-nostalgic music" because ultra-nostalgic music to me would be Music/TheStrokes. There is nothing wrong with it, but I don't feel like I'm that nostalgic. I'm trying to think about it as something that people feel. |
101 | * PopStarComposer: Did the soundtracks to ''Film/TheBlingRing'', ''Film/{{Partisan}}'' and ''Film/GoodTime''. |
102 | * {{Sampling}}: |
103 | ** ''Replica'' takes samples from '80s commercials and turns them into musical pieces. |
104 | ** And of course, ''Eccojams'', which takes loops from various pop songs, slows them down, and often adds lots of stereo delay. |
105 | * PunnyName: Oneohtrix's unusual moniker is a play-on words of Magic 106.7, a radio station based in Daniel's native Boston. The connection was a lot more apparent when the project used to called Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, and especially the album of the same name. |
106 | * SelfBackingVocalist / VoiceOfTheLegion: At several points in ''Garden of Delete'', most prominently "Animals" and "Sticky Drama." Invoked on ''Age of''. |
107 | * ShoutOut: |
108 | ** ''Oneohtrix Point Never'' came from Boston soft rock station ''Magic 106.7''. |
109 | ** The title and art for ''Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol 1'' comes from VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin. |
110 | ** For the "oceangrunge" album ''Garden of Delete'', Lopatin issued a variant of the Music/{{Korn}} logo, sans the K and with the R flipped and turned into a P, so that [[https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2014/07/opn-korn.jpg it spelled OPN instead]]. |
111 | ** The cover of "[[http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0321128520_10.jpg Drawn and Quartered]]" is a copy of the cover to an album named "[[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F2YWIYLjLYQ/UcjpxEgrIsI/AAAAAAAAAmM/S7yDlMFzJx8/s1600/BRI+01.jpeg Terrestrial Journey]]". |
112 | ** His designer T-shirt "[[http://pointnever.bigcartel.com/product/runaway-horse-tee-white Runaway Horse]]" has WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat and the Music/GratefulDead skull as EyelessFaces, which also references found artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Leckey Mark Leckey]]. |
113 | ** "Toys 2" off ''Age Of'', scores an imagined sequel to ''Film/{{Toys}}''. |
114 | ** The music video for "Black Snow" alludes to, among other things, a performance piece done at the Fukushima Daiichi plant site following the disaster. The lyrics themselves are adapted from a Cybernetic Culture Research Unit essay. |
115 | ** "The Station" appears to share a setting with ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' by way of John Carpenter's ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}.'' |
116 | * StoryArc: ''Age of'' is divided into four ages: Ecco, [[{{Arcadia}} Harvest]], [[AndManGrewProud Excess]], and [[ApocalypseHow Bondage]]. |
117 | * SyntheticVoiceActor: Dee Klatt of Chipspeech is the primary vocalist on ''Garden of Delete'', joined by Dandy 704 on "Animals". |
118 | * {{Title 1}}: ''Eccojams Vol. 1''. There's no volume 2, but he ambiguously said he has "multiple volumes of eccojams in the cryotank set to defrost in the distant future".[[note]]He later said on Twitter that he has no intention of making a volume 2, telling fans to make their own instead.[[/note]] |
119 | ** This is referenced in ''Garden of Delete'' with a track called "[=ECCOJAMC1=]". |
120 | * UpdatedRerelease: His 2 CD compilation album, "Rifts", was re-released as a 3 CD / 5 LP album, and new tracks listed. |
121 | * {{Vaporwave}}: If not the {{Trope Maker}} with ''Eccojams'', certainly the TropeCodifier. |
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