Own-Eee-Oh-Trix POLL Never: the 0PN albums poll

delete was the 1st thing that came to mind upon seeing this thread title

you missed a whole bunch of albums. Rifts is a compilation.

Also, although it's not his best, Eccojams is probably his most influential

I know, but those three records are so of a piece, and the Rifts reissue is what initially brought Lopatin to wider attention... and it fits in with the "R" theme

well, it gets my vote because those early records are >>>>>>>

also I hate treble

don't mind them flappy, this is the appropriate list of opn albums to poll

Weird time to poll him. Have a feeling he's only just getting started

i agree, but if he dropped dead today, he'd leave behind a pretty substantial body of work. after G.O.D., i feel like he can go anywhere/do anything

will probably vote for the new one on principle, also it is amazing

Oh if we're taking it in turns to complain, my gripe is you should have called the thread 'i declare this poll 0PN'

r+7 > replica > god > returnal > rifts

Either the new one or returnal will get my vote, but I haven't listened to one enough yet, and I haven't heard the other for years

r+7 > replica > god > returnal > rifts

― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, November 23, 2015 3:02 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my order too, though i'd put rifts above returnal

i'm tempted to go with Rifts. i first heard it as a comp, and even after buying the separate vinyl reissues i still think of them as part of the larger Rifts piece. it rewards close listening and also sounds great at a lower volume, as a much longer piece of music that can set yr weekend vibe on a tilt

returnal is so good, though. kind of like a shorter consolidation of rifts but hinting at new directions.

and then replica is just perfect from start to finish, and doesn't sound like anything else. (guess that gets my vote)

i need to sink more time into R plus 7. i like it more and more with every listen but for some reason i always lose my footing halfway through. haven't heard GOD yet

rifts > returnal > god > replica > r+7

nerding out and separating the rifts LPs + eccojams:

russian mind > chuck person's eccojams vol. 1 > returnal > the fall into time > god > zones without people > replica > betrayed in the octagon > r+7 > drawn and quartered

replica

wait i haven't even heard eccojames. i need to check that out!!

jamz

it's just slowed down 80's jams. the games/ford & lopatin mixtape series "heaven can wait" is a better take on the same theme IMHO

in case anyone hasn't seen this, great long interview with Lopatin from 2011 at the red bull music academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3Q8arE_Yk

Rifts is my likely choice. Although it's Antony's cover of Returnal that I keep returning to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrTM1WuCFzU

G.O.D. is awesome, one of my favorite records this year. I think I've liked each OPN record more than the one before it.

isn't OPN pronounced One-oh-trix point never, like the radio staiton (106.7)?

yea, for a while i thought it was own-eee-oh-trix, and i still like saying it that way. in private of course. GIF/JIFF

Replica is the one that I loved immediately, and has kept on loving. I still haven't been able to get really into any of the other.

btw, is it really pronounced own-eee-oh-trix? I just say one-o-trix point never, but pronounce 'never' as in Hiroshima Mon Amour.

Replica for all time

one oh trix point seven

Awny-Awe-Tricks my preferred silly pronunciation

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frickin LOVED "garden of delete" on first listen though.

much love for the pre-returnal juno stuff on rifts, especially the calmer stuff like "behind the bank", "fourier ocean transforms", "memory vague", the whole a pact between strangers ep...

returnal is great too. like the juno stuff puffed up on LSD

r plus seven i never even made it through once, just was never in the right headspace to listen to it.

this is up there too: http://www.discogs.com/KGB-MAN-Oneohtrix-Point-Never-KGB-Nights-Blue-Drive/release/2023740

Really grateful his palette expanded and evolved over these many albums, instead of easily riding the early sound to death (which I no doubt love and will likely vote for).

the rifts stuff is very LSD-ish... maybe i've just listened more closely to it than other 00s/10s synth zone-out music, but it really captures that feeling of objects changing form/color as you're looking at them... like as soon as you think you have a grip on what a sound is, the whole canvas has shifted

xp agree

I've totally had those tripping balls moments, stone sober, while gently spacing out to Rifts-era tracks, both with his long-form fantasias on texture like "Format and Journey North", and the shorter, tightly organized pieces. Doesn't really happen much with the new stuff, despite "paying as much attention" when the Octagon/Zones/Russian Mind stuff was brand new.

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― Karl Malone, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 3:30 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"0PN" tho

It just means we have to embrace the now! There will be no revival!

garden of delete is growing on me but it's still such a punishing listen. the whole thing about "Mutant Standard" being like drinking 20 mountain dews and burning the house down and crashing hard is pretty spot on. not that fun

I had to vote for Replica, which feels like a coming of age artistic statement of an album much more than his last two to me. Kinda like how the RDJ album opened up the pathways for all of Aphex's subsequent releases, and there was no going back.

That said, GoD is growing on me faster than kudzu, and given time I might change my mind.

never could get into this guy. might check out the new one.

rifts

never could get into this guy. might check out the new one.

― canoon fodder (dog latin), Wednesday, November 25, 2015 4:30 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good luck

finally purchased this. the music sounds so chintzy compared to something like the Sperm Whale album by Thrones. latter half of GoD is def more engaging than the first half, beginning with "SDFK"

https://thrones106mm.bandcamp.com/album/sperm-whale

"Oso Malo" is a monster of a track.

Great piece on GOD by Drew Daniel: http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/drew-daniel-matmos-talks-oneohtrix-point-nevers-garden-of-delete/

Tried to watch that red bull interview but man, he is one boring dude

Tried to get into this dude, but his music is way too commercial. It's like gooey pap. Max Martin thinks he's selling out fer crying out loud.

xp ha i kinda like his laconic/stoned way of speaking

i like his essay on kenny g

g.o.d. is his best so far, i think. idk if the too commercial comment was a joke or not. he seems pretty auth

Returnal was his peak IMO, but I haven't given GOD a proper listen

Also Russian Mind is killer

richard d james seems to like him, recommending his video to someone on soundcloud

i have spent no time with returnal. rifts was my intro and i have a very strong connection to tracks like "russian mind" and "hyperdawn". replica is dope as hell and i liked r+7. but i generally vote for shit that makes me cry, and "mutant standard" did, so G.O.D. for me.

Garden has a strong, evocative late night urban vibe imo

I've "felt" more in Garden than his other stuff

Ouroboros is all time tho

Stress Waves is amazing as well. But yeah, Russian Mind - all time greatness.

Rifts is my favorite era, mainly since it was the first stuff I heard, but I like everything he's released. It's all really unique. Tough poll.

Tried to watch that red bull interview but man, he is one boring dude

The interviewer is super painful.

"i was really into PK Dick... Philip K Dick... *hits bowl*..."

http://pitchfork.com/features/podcasts/9767-this-is-how-we-do-it-oneohtrix-point-never/

more...details...please...about his suburban Boston...upbringing...

give this dude another ten years.. GoD seems like pretty rad music for teenagers. i still love returnal

switched my vote to returnal

my man

among other things that album is just a sensuous joy

voted R+7 tho

the swelling transition from "Along" into "Problem Areas" is one of his best moments.

I've listened to GoD a few times, I'm not fully sold on it but there's definitely something there, perhaps it will fully click with me at some point. His older stuff just sounds like well-constructed but empty 80s fetishism to me idk

Although Replica is probably my favorite, Garden of Delete has something his other albums don't — a sense of forward momentum or narrative. The other albums feel somewhat like exhibition spaces you walk through and encounter one piece at a time. (The "Problem Areas" video reinforces this idea.) The CD booklet is excessive in a way that "hypes" the album, too, and then the website gives you even more stuff, like there's a puzzle to be put together. It's kind of fun.

Last track on GoD is so good

Yeah, maybe this isn't the right time for this kind of poll, so soon after the release of GoD. I'm the same as a lot of people here, in that I'd probably vote for something kinda older, Rifts or Returnal probably but that GoD sounds so promising and so forward thinking from him. But it's too soon. Rifts then.

Trust your feelings. The correct answer is GoD.

Too late. Let's all note this and then come back again after another two albums. Hahe. I think like many my favourite of his stuff is Games. He still hasn't topped Strawberry Skyies for me.

But now I'm listening to GoD and.. well. This guy.

I don't really get how people say this new one is difficult. Some of the last records seemed so flat to me, like an electronic no-wave. This new one has some cute melodies and even some soaring housey moments.

new one is so overcooked... the songs carry no weight. it feels like a big, meticulously crafted collage with zero fat. the only tracks that seem to have mass and/or momentum are Mutant Standard, I Bite Through It, Freaky Eyes, and No Good. otherwise it sounds like an assemblage of parts that are fashioned to fit together. the abundance of chipmunk-y (or slowed) vocal samples, chopped and pitched sounds flimsy as fuck, it ruins "Lift", imo. does anybody feel "Animals"? i hope it grows on me?

O yeah like animals by PINK FLOYS? Yeah

Nocturnal urban adventure landscape soundtrack = GoD

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the sound palette on GOD is super harsh and dark to me, he described one of the songs as "the feeling when you drink 20 mountain dews and burn a house down, and the crash that comes after." it's not pleasant or pretty, like someone said here or on another thread, more conceptually interesting than actually fun to listen to. r plus seven is a museum piece but it's beautiful and scary... i can't find a way into enjoying rather than just appreciating GOD

More I listen to GOD the more I dislike the tracks with the autotuned vocals. yet stuff like "I Bite Through It" and "Mutant Standard" are quickly becoming favorites. Feels like his most inconsistent record.

GOD is dead :(

anybody tried to read along with the lyric sheet ?

Have yall listened to the eccojams vol. 1 tape he released in 2010? I wouln't rate it with any of the albums being polled here but it's still pretty incredible, especially if you are at all interested in the vaporwave aesthetic

Might have mentioned this, but his live show for GOD is super different: very harsh and loud, almost like a noise show.

he's playing in really small rock clubs in the spring, can't wait

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Strong showing for all, makes sense. You can make a good argument for all of them. I'm still trying to figure out GoD, though.

replica

Still have trouble not thinking of this guy as a hack

didn't mind that nu metal tribute album though. it was.. okay

eccojams

good time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mDXrrCSoek

it's odd to see Chrome Country as a piece to be performed live

also realised recently that the organ line at the end was also used in Autre Ne Veut's Gonna Die (produced by OPN)

Didn't realize he had a whole live group, imagined he just played solo

he does typically perform solo, but he recruited players for these recent MYRIAD shows

can't find any setlists online, what are the old songs he's encoring with?

have seen mentions of Child of Rage and Chrome Country (as seen in that video), don't know if there's others