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
― J. Sam, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
replica
― circa1916, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
wait i haven't even heard eccojames. i need to check that out!!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
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
― flopson, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
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
― doug watson, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
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)?
― Dan S, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
Replica for all time
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
one oh trix point seven
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
Awny-Awe-Tricks my preferred silly pronunciation
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
this poll will be impossible to search for in the future
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
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).
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 3:30 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"0PN" tho
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
It just means we have to embrace the now! There will be no revival!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
never could get into this guy. might check out the new one.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:30 (eight years ago) link
rifts
― the late great, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 09:48 (eight years ago) link
― canoon fodder (dog latin), Wednesday, November 25, 2015 4:30 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good luck
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
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.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 26 November 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
Great piece on GOD by Drew Daniel: http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/drew-daniel-matmos-talks-oneohtrix-point-nevers-garden-of-delete/
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Tried to watch that red bull interview but man, he is one boring dude
― calstars, Thursday, 17 December 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 17 December 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
xp ha i kinda like his laconic/stoned way of speaking
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 December 2015 03:38 (eight years ago) link
i like his essay on kenny g
― Treeship, Friday, 18 December 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
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
― Treeship, Friday, 18 December 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link
Returnal was his peak IMO, but I haven't given GOD a proper listen
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 December 2015 03:44 (eight years ago) link
Also Russian Mind is killer
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 December 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
richard d james seems to like him, recommending his video to someone on soundcloud
― ﷽ (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 December 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Friday, 18 December 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
Garden has a strong, evocative late night urban vibe imo
― calstars, Friday, 18 December 2015 13:23 (eight years ago) link
I've "felt" more in Garden than his other stuff
Ouroboros is all time tho
― calstars, Friday, 18 December 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
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.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 18 December 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
The interviewer is super painful.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 18 December 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
"i was really into PK Dick... Philip K Dick... *hits bowl*..."
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 December 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/podcasts/9767-this-is-how-we-do-it-oneohtrix-point-never/
― flappy bird, Saturday, 26 December 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
more...details...please...about his suburban Boston...upbringing...
― calstars, Sunday, 27 December 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
give this dude another ten years.. GoD seems like pretty rad music for teenagers. i still love returnal
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 December 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
switched my vote to returnal
― the late great, Sunday, 27 December 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
my man
among other things that album is just a sensuous joy
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 28 December 2015 09:03 (eight years ago) link
voted R+7 tho
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 28 December 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
the swelling transition from "Along" into "Problem Areas" is one of his best moments.
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 December 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
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
― Kat?ßas?? (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
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.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Last track on GoD is so good
― calstars, Monday, 28 December 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
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.
― kraudive, Monday, 28 December 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
Trust your feelings. The correct answer is GoD.
― calstars, Monday, 28 December 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― kraudive, Monday, 28 December 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
But now I'm listening to GoD and.. well. This guy.
― kraudive, Monday, 28 December 2015 23:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― kraudive, Monday, 28 December 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
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?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
O yeah like animals by PINK FLOYS? Yeah
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
Nocturnal urban adventure landscape soundtrack = GoD
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
GOD is dead :(
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 30 December 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
anybody tried to read along with the lyric sheet ?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
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
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Might have mentioned this, but his live show for GOD is super different: very harsh and loud, almost like a noise show.
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
he's playing in really small rock clubs in the spring, can't wait
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 31 December 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 December 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 06:48 (five years ago) link
Still have trouble not thinking of this guy as a hack
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
didn't mind that nu metal tribute album though. it was.. okay
eccojams
― nxd, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
good time
― devvvine, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
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)
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Didn't realize he had a whole live group, imagined he just played solo
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
he does typically perform solo, but he recruited players for these recent MYRIAD shows
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
can't find any setlists online, what are the old songs he's encoring with?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
have seen mentions of Child of Rage and Chrome Country (as seen in that video), don't know if there's others
― ufo, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link