Oneohtrix Point Never
| Oneohtrix Point Never | |
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Lopatin, photographed in 2013
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Daniel Lopatin |
| Also known as | 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, FKA twigs, DJ Earl |
| Website | pointnever |
| Notable instruments | |
Daniel Lopatin (born 25 July 1982), best known by the recording alias Oneohtrix Point Never, is an American experimental musician, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. He began releasing projects under the OPN moniker in 2007, and received early acclaim in 2009 for the compilation Rifts. In subsequent years he released albums such as Replica (2011) and R Plus Seven (2013) to critical praise while taking part in a number of side-projects and collaborations. In 2013, he signed to British label Warp. His latest album, Garden of Delete, was released 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 names and as part of several groups, including Infinity Window and Astronaut, before adopting the pseudonym Oneohtrix Point Never (a verbal play on Boston FM radio station Magic 106.7). Early OPN recordings drew on synthesizer music, New Age tropes, and the 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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