Mistletone

Mistletone is proud to present the debut Melbourne appearance of Oneohtrix Point Never at The Toff on Sunday March 17 with special guests Wooshie, Angel Eyes + DJ Simon Winkler. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.

• “Lopatin has accomplished something many musicians making so-called experimental music fail to do: open our ears to new sonic possibilities and, more importantly, force us to reconsider and rewire some of our most basic assumptions” – WIRE

Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin, a Brooklyn based lo-fi synth head whose work has brought him to the forefront of the modern electronic composition scene. In recent years, Oneohtrix Point Never has become one of the new synth-music underground’s most reliable purveyors of trippy, arpeggio-heavy psychedelia. His brand new album Replica has been called “a true modern masterpiece in noise music” & “an immaculately paced album, veering from placid ambient interludes to quietly chaotic constellations of found sound”. The unmistakeable black and white skull of the cover art popped up on more end of year best of lists than you can count, furthering Daniel’s life long desire to communicate deeply and efficiently in the realm of electronic music.

Since 2006, Oneohtrix has been injecting raw unfiltered emotion in to the often sterile world of analog synth jams. While most exponents of the style release meandering, overly sentimental pieces, Daniel’s tracks are resonant and absorbing, riding on a taut sense of tension and melancholy. He has managed to tear the analog synth, especially the humble Roland Juno 60, out of the cheesy haze of 80s nostalgia and make these sounds feel relevant and meaningful to the modern age. Arpeggios and drones have never felt so vital and close to the bone.

Honing his craft in his native Massachusetts hometown just outside of Boston before relocating to the lofts and brownstones of Brooklyn, Daniel revealed his first album Betrayed In The Octagon on cassette in 2007. Initially released on Deception Island, the release was picked up and pressed to vinyl by noise exponents No Fun Productions, introducing the world to Loptain’s ubiquitous arpeggios and cracked up tape hiss.

Russian Mind followed; the album was centred on the theme of a retired Russian cosmonaut lying in a hospital bed imagining the score to an imaginary film. Landing somewhere between Kosmiche chug and Emeralds-esque experimentation, Russian Mind upped Oneohtrix’s emotional pull, coming across as genuinely sad and misty eyed. 2009’s Zones Without People featured seven tracks that appeared on the Rifts compilation (which topped the Wire’s end of year lists) and catapulted Lopatin in to the international consciousness.

The follow-up Returnal landed him on the legendary Editions Mego label, catalysing rave reviews; Boomkat went so far to say that Lopatin “triggers that un-nameable particle phiz that nobody has been able to explain, and hopefully never will”. The last couple of years has seen the Oneohtrix name reach critical mass: his Replica album received Pitchfork’s Best New Music tag and his 2012 collaboration with legendary noise sculptor Tim Hecker reached new heights of creativity.

Joining Oneohtrix Point Never will be Wooshie, the project of Melbourne based producer Dylan Michel. Part of the formidable This Thing crew, Wooshie produces fuzzy beats that invigorate your limbs before you’ve even stepped onto the dance floor. Angel Eyes, a.k.a Andrew Cowie, delivers both nostalgia and optimism; coldness and isolation are overset by warm whisperings in your ears. Simon Winkler from Triple R will be spinning tunes throughout the night.

• “This is music that digs deeper and burrows beneath the level of shared associations to discover the sparkling emotional potential of carefully arranged vibrations moving through the air” – PITCHFORK Best New Music (rating 8.8)
• “An artful act of audio archaeology: reconfigurations of lost sound” – BBC