Line #11 Music/OneohtrixPointNever


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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
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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)
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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]]
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47	[[folder:Misc Aliases]]
48	[[AC:As Dania Shapes]]
49	* ''Soundsystem Pastoral'' (2006)
50	* ''Holograd'' (2008)
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52	[[AC:As Chuck Person]]
53	* ''Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1'' (2010)
54	* ''A.D.D. Complete'' (2012)
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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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