Altered Zones

"Nassau" is the third single from Oneohtrix Point Never's upcoming album, Replica. It's perhaps the most representative of the inventive sampling Dan Lopatin's been exploring of late, which involves taking the soundtracks from commercials from the '80s and '90s, subtracting the scripted action, and leaving behind the organic moments in between. A few words from Lopatin on the subject below, in advance of our artist profile next week:

"A lot of that for me is just noticing cadences in conversation, especially with human voice, which has become the most inspiring thing to me in recent memory, as important to me as the synthesizers. Those two things, for me, most powerfully describe what reality sounds like, musically, other than like Jimi Hendrix taking a guitar solo. It's that kind of personification of sound-- zeroing in on cadences and natural rhythms and melismatic sound as being sad or rounded things as having an apparent emotional quality. I've just been thinking about basic musical components and then applying that to conversation, street sounds, sounds of machinery. That's what, I feel like, I dialed in on." --Ian Pearson, Altered Zones via Boiler Room

Oneohtrix Point Never: "Nassau"

Replica drops November 8th from Ford and Lopatin's own Software Label