Music for Reliquary House/In 1980 I Was a Blue Square

It's often taxing when an artist so chained to his medium decides to move into new territory. For years, Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never was marked by the sound of his beloved Juno-60, nicknamed "Judy." With Judy's apparent breakdown, and an increasing computer-music influence creeping in from his sometime home Editions Mego, Lopatin's 2011 LP, Replica, was suffused with samples, which he ably manipulated to fit his dystopian palette. Jeff Witscher's Rene Hell is ...

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