Daniel Lopatin
| Oneohtrix Point Never | |
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Lopatin in a 2015 photoshoot
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Daniel Lopatin |
| Also known as | Oneohtrix Point Never, KGB Man, Chuck Person, Dania Shapes |
| Born |
July 25, 1982 Wayland, Massachusetts |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | No Fun, Editions Mego, Software, Warp |
| Associated acts | Anohni, Nate Boyce, Tim Hecker, Ford & Lopatin, Infinity Window, A. G. Cook |
| Website | pointnever |
| Notable instruments | |
Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American electronic musician, experimental composer, and producer born in Wayland, Massachusetts. Lopatin began releasing projects under the OPN moniker in 2007. Much of this material was collected on the 2009 compilation Rifts, which brought him early critical acclaim. In subsequent years he has received praise for albums such as Replica (2011) and R Plus Seven (2013) in addition to a variety of side-projects and collaborations. In 2013, he signed to British label Warp. His latest album, Garden of Delete, was released on the label in 2015.
Born in Wayland, Massachusetts, and raised in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Lopatin is the son of Russian immigrants from the former Soviet Union, both with musical backgrounds. Some of his first experiments with electronic music were inspired by his father’s collection of dubbed jazz fusion tapes and his Roland Juno-60 synthesizer, an instrument that has since been used extensively by Lopatin in the studio and on-stage. Lopatin attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts before moving to Brooklyn, New York to attend grad school at Pratt Institute, studying archival science. During that time, he became involved in Brooklyn's underground noise music scene.
Lopatin initially released music under a number of pseudonyms and as part of several groups before adopting the pseudonym Oneohtrix Point Never (a verbal play on Boston FM radio station Magic 106.7). Early OPN recordings drew on 1980s synthesizer music, new age tropes, kosmische, and contemporary noise music. Lopatin released a series of cassette and CD-R projects interspersed with a trilogy of full-length albums: Betrayed in the Octagon (2007), Zones Without People (2009) and Russian Mind (2009). Much of this material was eventually collected on the 2009 compilation Rifts, which brought him into international acclaim; it was named the no. 2 album of 2009 by UK magazine The Wire. Also in 2009, Lopatin released the audio-visual project Memory Vague, which included his profile-raising YouTube video "nobody here."
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