RIFTS

Last summer I heard Oneohtrix Point Never's Zones Without People album after meeting Daniel Lopatin at a show. Next week No Fun Productions will release Rifts, a 2CD set of his first three albums all smashed together, with Zones Without People sandwiched between Betrayed in the Octagon and Russian Mind.

Ice-cold synth tones shift through cavernous progressions and pile onto each other to create some imagined laser-world, very much like our own. Water flows upstream, massive cliffs overlook murderous seas, huge outgrowths of vegetation thrive where wave meets coast. The jungle runs deep, paths are beaten into the floor where generations tread decades earlier.

However, with such a glossy and streamlined physiology, focal points blend, visions get confused. Luckily, we are frequently reminded that this virtual world retreats when we stand up from our computer and face the air. What we thought was canopies and coconuts was just a complex patchwork of lasers, a modern-day mirage. Eventually electronics malfunction and short and, like the Wizard of Oz for example, reality reveals itself.

I really enjoy this whole album. It doesn't beg you to do anything. It lets you go on. Supreme deep-sleep material. Check out some samples from Zones Without People HERE and completely take off into stratosphere-mode with "Physical Memories" HERE. Looks like you can BUY IT HERE.



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P.S. If you're in Brooklyn Friday evening check out the Rifts record release party at Glasslands.

P.P.S. Check out this rad set Lopatin did for Rare Frequency over the summer.

(via Chocolate Bobka)