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Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal

Released: 18/06/2010 Mego Editions
As the strikingly odd name of Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never project suggests, this is deeply cerebral stuff. Harking back to a time before Aphex Twin’s music was overshadowed by the image of an unsettling bearded face, Returnal is electronic music with a masterful ability to take listeners to unimagined realms. For more information visit: http://www.editionsmego.com/twiki/bin/view/Editionsmego/ Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003IHOQZM?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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Dusted Magazine“Both disorienting and pleasing at once...” There’s something almost proper, or at least something that inspires a feeling of completeness, about an album whose theme is in harmony with its aesthetic...
 
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Drowned In Sound“Both beautiful and terrible at once...” Returnal is the aural equivalent of a scuba dive in the open ocean. Total immersion is like hanging in a calming blue that stretches out to infinity on all sides, poised above an abyss so deep and dark that its very presence induces vertigo...
 
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Pitchfork“Unusually original...” Having softened his attacks and smeared his notes into indefinite shapes, he seems to sever the music from any kind of causality, so that it simply floats freely, morphing, rippling in a dance of infinite regeneration, like some perfect lifeform...
 
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