oneohtrix point never “replica” long playing record

• andro (3:56)
  
• power of persuasion (3:30)
  
• sleep dealer (3:10)
  
• remember (3:19)
  
• replica (4:36)
  
  
• nassau (4:43)
  
• submersible (3:49)
  
• up (3:57)
  
• child soldier (3:12)
  
• explain (6:45)

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oneohtrix point never replica replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from tv ad compilations. these sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed “ghost vocals” which serve as narration for lopatin’s signature amorphous, ambient passages. lopatin’s juno-60 is still prominent, but returnal’s placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via lopatin’s use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. the result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain.

oneohtrix point never “replica” c42 cassette

• andro (3:56)
  
• power of persuasion (3:30)
  
• sleep dealer (3:10)
  
• remember (3:19)
  
• replica (4:36)
  
  
• nassau (4:43)
  
• submersible (3:49)
  
• up (3:57)
  
• child soldier (3:12)
  
• explain (6:45)

november 2011 release ; ... cassette version of dan lopatin’s eleventh album as oneohtrix point never (not counting the andrew kirschner, slow listener, caboladies & outer space splits, nor the “rifts” nor “memory vague” compilations nor his previous work in astronaut & as dania shapes ... lovely thing, at that :: ... smudgy basalt-chalk imprinting takes me back to the mall tape-wall shops of my youth) ... anyways, first few tracks dive us directly into the neo-tokyo void(s) that dan does so well, followed immediately by “sleep dealer” ‘s jarring floating-point plunderphonics (a theme strong in dan’s “covert” work as chuck person & kgb man, yet rarely evident in the opn-proper materials) ... my favorite bits involve dan’s expansive acoustic ivory-ticklings (with a great long stretch towards the end of side b simultaneously recalling alice coltrane’s modal transgressions & that really great eliot goldenthal cue from the tail-end of “heat” [seriously, who doesn’t love that piece of music / film] that segues into another plunderphonic étude oddly reminiscent of the books - listen to the sound-sample for that) ... a great record, easily as appealing as “returnal” while maybe even receding into styles reminiscent of his more formative work ...

software press release...

oneohtrix point never replica replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from tv ad compilations. these sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed “ghost vocals” which serve as narration for lopatin’s signature amorphous, ambient passages. lopatin’s juno-60 is still prominent, but returnal’s placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via lopatin’s use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. the result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain.

harmonizer “world complete” twelve inch single record

• landline (4:52)
  
• derdeba (6:49)
  
  
• cloud bank (4:39)
  
• world complete (6:29)

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harmonizer world complete harmonizer, or as lovingly referred to as harmo around these parts is the vermont duo of toby aronson and veteran zone shredder greg davis, whose explorations into pastoral electronics have been well documented by kranky, carpark and his own autumn records. the duo’s previous effort, a self-titled cassette on aronson’s own stellar nna tapes label was the definitive “5th world” statement and solidified them with the koan of nu free electronic music shared by the likes of fellow melodic noisers caboladies and oneohtrix point never. on world complete harmo boggles brains via the storied terrain that jon hassell once charted, adding sub bass, magic eye loops and some fusion gomf that is makes them decidedly more on the corner than aka-darbari-java. but who needs to be convinced about a band named after the most dramatic stompbox of the late 20th century. we don’t. band burns, this ep burns. sayonara.