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    Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

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    They sold the record on vinyl after the show (in a merch room with a robo-piano playing a piano rendition of the whole thing, classy) so I'm sure rips of that will be floating around in a few minutes

     

    R Plus Seven is still my fav Oneohtrix, but who cares about my opinion? If you like the direction suggested by Garden of Delete I think you'll dig this

    All I recorded was one minute of Same and almost all of... Chrome Country (they played it as part of the encore), but if you wanna see some of what the show looked like to an iPhone, here!

     

    Some other highlights included:

     

    -Pre-show music was just an ominous drone track (release it as a b-side daniel)

    -The cowgirls from the music video (probly not the actual same dancers) moseying from out behind the stage, thru the audience, and out toward the exit

    -Quite abstract percussion and cello solos

    -While you weren't looking, a giant hillscape of garbage bags inflated on either side of the stage

    -Final track that isn't on the album with (intentionally?) dreadful lyrics about the astonishing-ness of being alive, the waves on the shore, the wind in the trees, the birds and the bees and the butterflies, ending with bright lights coming on pointed directly at the audience so the dang stage got hard to see

    Yes. YES.

    Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

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    Another OPN itw with Dazed where he talks about the Myriad lore, collabs stuff like that. First paragraph is the same thing about that glassy house in the middle of nowhere but then he develops on something else!

     

    http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39904/1/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-interview?amp=1#click=https://t.co/35lanu6Sm6

    Reminds me a lot of Amnesia Scanner's themes. In fact the whole "AI making sense of humans through data trash" is pretty much entirely Angels Rig Hook.

    Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

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    I'm trying to resist a plane ticket to his performance/installation in New York for this.

     

    I was initially unsure if I was going to hop along to the London show, having seen the Lopatin man a handful of times, but I knew I'd regret it if I skipped the chance to get my face and ears ripped off by a 'concert-scape' level of OPN. Having been there watching him and Nate Boyce doing a sitdown AV show to less than a hundred people several years back to what he's up to now is rad. Fingers crossed for something special!

     

    Oh damn there is a London show? Might have to find the time to get along to that

    Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

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    Nothing at all what I expected. I really dig it. I like the vocals too. Someone in the comments said he might be going for a deconstructed hip hop sort of thing, which would be rad imo. Definitely on-board. Will likely pre-order too (Partly because I DO want a shirt with EXCESS BONDAGE written on it.)

     

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    This is the writing to be used on signs for a nuclear waste site in New Mexico after they block up the caves for good. A whole bunch of multi-disciplinary scientists basically needed to figure out a way to make it clear the waste is incredibly dangerous to civilizations thousands of years in the future who may not have any concept of radiation, symbols and languages we use.

     

    Nice little write up on the project here https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

    Didn't know about this! Raycats is another track on the album, so here's the source for that too

     

     

    Ah good catch!

     

    I'm pretty sure one of the lyrics also twists the chorus to "a wave of black holes" as well, possibly a reference to one of the architectural ideas to ward people away from the area:

     

     

    "Black Hole": A masonry slab, either of black Basalt rock,or black-dyed concrete, is an image of an enormous black hole; an immense nothing; a void; land removed from use with nothing left behind; a useless place. It both looks uninhabitable and unfarmable, and it is, for it is exceedingly hot part of the year. Its blackness absorbs the desert's high sun-heat load and radiates it back. It is a massive effort to make a place that is fearful, ugly, and uncomfortable.

     

    Though the YT details says the lyrics are inspired by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit which is a fucking wiki hole in of itself.

    Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted · Edited by WeAreOceans

    Nothing at all what I expected. I really dig it. I like the vocals too. Someone in the comments said he might be going for a deconstructed hip hop sort of thing, which would be rad imo. Definitely on-board. Will likely pre-order too (Partly because I DO want a shirt with EXCESS BONDAGE written on it.)

     

     

    danger4rqio.jpg

     

    This is the writing to be used on signs for a nuclear waste site in New Mexico after they block up the caves for good. A whole bunch of multi-disciplinary scientists basically needed to figure out a way to make it clear the waste is incredibly dangerous to civilizations thousands of years in the future who may not have any concept of radiation, symbols and languages we use.

     

    Nice little write up on the project here https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

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