At its most accessible, Oneohtrix Point Never‘s music is instantly recognizable, yet often difficult to comprehend, to understand, to accept.
The brainchild of Daniel Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never’s albums are a painstakingly assembled potpourri of sounds and cuts, the complexity of the composer’s experimental, sample-and-MIDI-based works often contradicted by the material he embraces (TV commercials and ad jingles, dialogue, library music, esoteric film soundtracks, Top 40 radio). It’s reflexive and responsive, the sounds — repurposed and filtered through VSTs and synths — reframed as collage.
Although he’s gracefully toed the line between the underground and the mainstream, collaborating with some of the most popular…

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