Austere rerace

As promised, a trainspotter's delight to complete the unveiling of & revelling in our Improbably Late 80 - the broader counterpoint to our earlier Furtive 30 & some kind of a conclusion to our end of year-listing for 2012 (though, as noted, there's still a label profile/interview to come as we explore the outer limits of improbable lateness...).  

This final batch of pieces from (& previews of) IL80 releases features Celer / Leonardo Rosado / Motion Sickness of Time Travel / Mike Shiflet & Joe Panzner / Mind Over Mirrors / Nicholas Szczepanik / Portraits / Shackleton / Steinbruechel / The Swifter / Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin / TVO / Two People in a Room / Windy & Carl / Yann Novak & Robert Crouch. 

celer - truth abandons (album preview)

Variation in White #1 by Leonardo Rosado

nicholas szczepanik - we make life sad (album preview)

La Luna del Este by Nicholas Szczepanik

Portraits - D

Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Traces (edit)

tim hecker & daniel lopatin - instrumental tourist (album preview)

mind over mirrors - small portion (album preview)

Tgamaghis (clip) by TVO

Mike Shiflet/Joe Panzner - Split (preview)

Sinus 5 by steinbruchel [re-up]

Fata Morgana (excerpt) by Yann Novak & Robert Crouch [re-up]

the swifter - the swifter (album preview)

shackleton - music for the quiet hour/the drawbar organ eps (album preview)

Two People In A Room - Horses In My Head

windy & carl - remember [re-up]

Oh, & in case you missed it yesterday, here's the 7-hour Improbably Late 80 playlist:



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Swan vs gull

Delicious new Oneohtrix Point Never again paired with other Daniel Lopatin output - after FRKWYS last time out, his rich body of collaborations, remixes, live takes & offcuts (almost all downloadable, by the way). & while his self-made video for the new release's haunting title track puts a kind of self-mocking emphasis on neo-kosmische's cartoonish side (drawing on the "saddest version of the most violen soviet cartoon ever", according to one YouTube commenter) - oddly, in a way, since Replica is an affecting, sober meditation - another film technique stands out from his off-piste collection. 


The drama & impact of Lopatin's jump-cutting is most obvious on remixes like those for Antony & the Johnsons' Swanlight (a connection immortalised in last year's majestic take on Returnal, of course) & FRKWYS fellow traveller Laurel Halo's Metal Confection. But it also illuminates live performances (this London 'outro', for example, or this college radio work-out) & experiments such as The Martinellis Bring Home a Desire System...


Not that all is jump-cut. Streams below end with a trio of more trademark arpeggiated bliss-outs. As often with OPN/Lopatin, these - a Harold Grosskopf remake, an Emeralds collab &, especially, a "free looping" piece for radio - generate an unexpected emotional heft....





ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS - SWANLIGHTS (remix) by Oneohtrix Point Never



Swanlights by Antony and the Johnsons


LAUREL HALO - METAL CONFECTION (remix) by Oneohtrix Point Never


SEAGULLS OUTTAKE (GROSVENOR, LONDON March 18th, 2010) by Oneohtrix Point Never

RARE FREQUENCY LIVE JAM (WZBC July 23rd, 2009) by Oneohtrix Point Never


MASQVES - OCEAN OF TEARS (HAUSCHILDT / OPN COLLAB)


Masqves at Paris London New York West Nile (5/14/09)

TRAUMA 2010 by Oneohtrix Point Never

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Tote bundler

A minor-key piano figure makes its stately, affecting way across a sound stage of buzzing riffs, cloudy fuzz & squealing tones: the arresting restraint of Replica, the delicately balanced title track of the new Oneohtrix Point Never, contrasts markedly with the earlier Sleep Dealer's pot pourri of squelchy synth gestures...


Also, proving a point recently nailed on Disquiet, the live debut of Lopatin's chamber-kosmische supergroup FRKWYS 7 Ensemble is - enlightenedly - already up on SoundCloud for the global audience that would have loved to make it to Pittsburgh last Friday night... Hear its often compelling, sometimes grandiloquent set (mostly improvised, according to the "electronic jam band"'s intro) below too.


Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica


Oneohtrix Point Never - Sleep Dealer


FRKWYS 7 Ensemble - Live at VIA Festival (Oct. 6th 2011)


"Room audio from the debut performance of the FRKWYS 7 ensemble feat. David Borden, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin, Laurel Halo, and Daniel Lopatin at Carnegie Mellon University's Kresge Theater on October 7th, 2011. Part of VIA Festival 2011 in Pittsburgh PA."

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