Brooklyn-based musician Daniel Lopatin explores electronic music’s left-of-center regions. The son of Russian immigrants who were professional musicians, he's spent years cranking out tapes and CDRs as Oneohtrix Point Never, his output ranging from demented meditation drones to straight-up noise. Though his early releases on Carlos Giffoni’s No Fun label connected him to the noise circuit, his compositions are equally inspired by library music, jazz fusion, a love-hate relationship with new age and a general appreciation for various strains of supposedly “bad” music. In 2009, Lopatin released _Rifts_, a celebration of synth-driven musicality and ambient warmth, further explored on his _Returnal_ LP on Editions Mego. He put out his third LP, _Replica_, on his own Software label, which also provided a home for his collaborative outings with Joel Ford (as Ford & Lopatin) and Tim Hecker.
