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Cat#: DI16 Artist: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Title: Betrayed in the Octagon Date of Release: 11/20/2007 Edition Size: 100 (hand numbered w/ballpoint pen) Materials: C44 (BASF chrome stock in “smoky” 5-screw shell), full-color printed adhesive labels, photocopy on cream cardstock, soft polybox. Availability: Sold out at source. |
Description:
By now, Boston-native synth auteur Daniel Lopatin’s reputation should precede him, whether as a result of his two cryptic solo dispatches as Dania Shapes or the superhuman focus he brings to his work with the neokosmiche trio Astronaut. Betrayed in the Octagon is his third solo release in as many years, which is as much an oddity in this era of enforced prolificity as the level of craft he brings to this tape. While the scene-at-large has had some time to catch up to Lopatin’s longstanding fascination with the old teutonic masters of the sequencer and their ensuing private press diaspora, his ability to underscore with tact and subtlety the lines of sympathetic resonance between the Berlin school and Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter, the tearstained pillows of the polysynth epoch, and the awful bliss of being really fucking drunk in a hot tub remains entirely his own, and the hallmark of a rare talent.
Notes:
Produced with four sets of adhesive label artwork in equal proportions (25 each). “Magic Oneohtrix Point Never” is the same project as “Oneohtrix Point Never.” Reissued sans track one, as No Fun Productions NFP-43 LP and anthologized (also sans track one) on the Rifts 2xCD (No Fun Productions).
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