Replica

recogarden-script 17th February 2024 at 7:39pm

Daniel Lopatin will go down as one of the defining musicians of this era — let's say, for simplicity, the internet/digital era. In the span of a year, both Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 and Replica are released; and although the first is arguably more influential, the tracks in this record sound more like proper structured songs, having an aesthetic intention that was lacking in the Eccojams' playful experimentation.

In contrast to his previous synthesizer-based releases as Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica was produced around audio samples from television advertisements procured by Lopatin, with the ads mainly dating back to the 1980s and 1990s.[2] He proceeded to isolate the audio from the commercials, listening for sounds that would strike him as being "harmonically intense" and sampling them.

from Wikipedia

In the meantime, Lopatin successfully crossover to a sort of fringe-mainstream (The Weeknd, the Safdie brothers, etc.) — and he rightfully earned it.

TitleReplica
AuthorOneohtrix Point Never
Year2011
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