Upset the Rhythm Presents:

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER -

Daniel Lopatin might be one such navigator. A Brooklyn-based writer, musician and collector of vintage synths, Lopatin is one-third of Infinity Window, one whole of Oneohtrix Point Never, and a key player in a post-noise scene - see also, Emeralds, Stellar Om Source, James Ferraro - dedicated to traversing territory last explored by the kosmische travellers of yore: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Edgar Froese. In recent years, the gentle side of cosmic exploration has been sidelined in favour of more muscular, technique-powered examples of the progressive age. But of course, this music had found its way into the culture anyway, in a mediated form at least - as soundtrack fare for TV and cinema - The Quietus

GOODIEPAL

TOMUTONTTU

Tomutonttu (“dust gnome”) is a human called Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and the leader of a Finnish respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät (Jan also played with Avarus and Anaksimandros). Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colours used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom flow, a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space and interacting with a logic all of their own.