Also Id see this as more of an edits/italo/straight up pop kind of thing than chillwave
― straightola, Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
OPN is cool but I prefer Games. Awesome tmblr.
http://skulltheft.tumblr.com
― laser precise purpose maker era, Saturday, 27 November 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, chillwave is ghey and all that, but I really like Games.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Sunday, 28 November 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
workd so hard 4 nothing
― plax (ico), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
returnal is the sort of drone record a condor wld make. love this guy.
― ogmor, Monday, 29 November 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
It's all good, but that title track is just flat out amazing.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
trying to envisage the sort of music a condor would make
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
swooping synths, vertiginous arpeggios, soaring chromatic chords
............o0oo0o
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
really loving the Games EP (reminds me a lot of stuff on the Valerie label, esp. Anoraak)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 3 December 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Odd how you notice the lyrics in the album version of "Returnal" after hearing the Antony remix - is that Antony in the original?
― with hidden noise, Friday, 3 December 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
despite the opening track which i can't really deal with Returnal is def top 5 of the year material (that said i don't keep up with much current ambient stuff)
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still waiting for OOTPN to click properly with me. He sounds like a really nice guy with a great approach to his work, but I still find Games infinitely more appealing for some reason.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Monday, 13 December 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
despite the opening track which i can't really deal with Returnal is def top 5 of the year material
exactly
― hiding behind a beard (or something), Monday, 13 December 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I wrote about that opening track, and why I think it works, here.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 13 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
the following seven tracks exist in its wake and are enhanced by that context.
this is otm. love this record now.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
tho i dont like the opener that much, it has big tactical value.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
agree with that 100%
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
its on mego, it should sound like its on fucking mego
― straightola, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
so I thought I had listened to this album in full and didn't really like it
but now I have discovered that I actually just listened to the first track on repeat 6 times and didn't realize it
¯\(°_°)/¯
― dayo, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahaha!
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, this album is actually kind of nice. not as 'difficult' as I thought it was. not the 'successor' to 'merzbow' I had 'imagined'.
― dayo, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
There was a kid on the TEFOSAV forum back in the early 00's who used to call himself Nuclear Heaven and who made a sound very similar to this under different monikers. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the same guy as the approach and aesthetic is so similar. I think I might even have some of his old albums.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
its on mego, it should sound like its on fucking mego― straightola, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― straightola, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
yes!
"harsh" track is kinda pretty tbh. one of the standouts for me, tho I still don't love the album.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
that new games video is soo bad
bad as in not good, not as in the powerglove
― FLEETWOOD MAC OS THE XX FILES (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't heard anything by Games as compelling as his OPN stuff
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Planet Party is one of my jams of 2010. Someone posted it to a thread before I'd even heard of Oneohtrix and somethign about the video imagery and I was completely suckered into the music and video, so much so that I had to check it really was something from 2010 and not 1985. I know this hauntology/retro thing's been being done since the late 90s, but this was done so well, I was transported back to watching TV adverts on my Dad's old portable telly.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
(sorry about my writing, just got back from work's Chrismtas lunch and trying hard not to crawl under my desk for a kip.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the antony cover of returnal is pretty awesome, i discovered today
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 December 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
don't like that v much
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 December 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I love the Antony/Fennesz remix more than the original. though I haven't really played this album much, I listen to Rofts way more
― missingNO, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, Rifts, that should say
his side on this is dope
http://www.discogs.com/Tomutonttu-Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Split/release/2291707
― missingNO, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, I remembered the name of that artist I mentioned upthread. He was called Acreil, and his stuff can be downloaded here: http://www.archive.org/details/enrmp092_acreil_-_blue_music
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Thursday, 13 January 2011 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry to street team, but I do like this guy's stuff http://www.youtube.com/user/acreil
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
We invited him to support Agalloch on the NYC show. He declined :(
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"Him" being Oneohtrix of course.
that would've been an amazing gig.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
3pm, Nil Admirari
11pm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeg-6S-vcrI
― just woke up (lukas), Thursday, 27 January 2011 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i enjoyed that quite a bit
― rockapads, Thursday, 27 January 2011 07:58 (thirteen years ago) link
even looked up the original, which i also liked, but this is an improvement imo
Okay, so that little bit in the beginning where the 5 minutes of noise fades and gives way to that lush, rolling beautiful drone
this makes me smile really big
― Mrs. Doubtfife (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 6 February 2011 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
^i dug that tons, but knew it was the intention the entire time i was listening to that 1st track and couldn't help that think my enjoyment was only cause of remission and not any real skill on part of the artist going on here.
i mean the trend is so common in p. much every noise show i've ever been to/album i've ever bought that i'm tempted to say it justifies the artist's incapability to craft melody in the first place.
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Sunday, 6 February 2011 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Playing South Bank Centre, London, 9th April with Games as support.
Already looking on eBay for a time machine to take me to that gig now.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 6 February 2011 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/41514-games-change-name-to-ford-lopatin-start-mexican-summer-imprint-software/
Why??
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm. I actually do love that logo though. Totally something I would have seen on a sub-Sierra computer game back in the day.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah cool logo + Games was a crap name so w/e. really want to see that London show.
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPA3UVX_UWA
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
software label lookin good.. putting out demdike stare!
― talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
also based on that url i thought they changed their name to Ford and imagined that this http://www.performanceoffroadcenter.com/oscommerce/images/ford%20logo.jpg was the cool new logo haha
― talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
holy cow be sure to pick up the harald grosskopf - synthesist reissue http://igetrvng.com/prsnts/314
includes bonus cd with reworkings by contemporary kosmische superstars (oneohtrix, arp, stellar om source, cfcf)
― Paradife Loft (diamonddave85), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to hear that remix cd pretty badly
― van smack, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link