Why are brainlets unable to comprehend this album?

Why are brainlets unable to comprehend this album?

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What I love about this record is that it's both intellectually, technically, and emotionally engaging. There's something for everyone in there.

Yeah, it's almost unlike any other album IMO. Many songs on it have a weird semi-pop appeal. Many songs feel very deeply moving despite being little disconnected bits and pieces of samples and chord progressions.

I wish other artists were making stuff like this. The rest of the weird frontier is good too, but OPN feels like a whole different bubble entirely.

Listening to this album is like walking through a newly built museum and calmly checking stuff out, dwelling on a few things before moving on to the next.

pitchfork skrillex

more like TMT skrillex desu

DUDE CLAUDE LARSON LMAO
DUDE NEW AGE LMAO
DUDE TANGERINE DREAM LMAO
DUDE WINDOWS 98 LMAO

Budget Art of Noise.

do acid and listen, it'll blow your mind

it's a good album dude but stop embarassing yourself, because it really is entry level stuff...

youtube.com/watch?v=ux3u31SAeEM Yeah, sounds way more experimental lol

What's something not entry level, then?

Everyone on this board is pretentious. Including myself

More like
Dubs part 2 desu

>tfw OPN will never make vaporwave-y trip-hop but will forever remain a lolsoquirky experimental """"artist""""
GOD was a mistake (it doesn't even start with an R ffs)

youtube.com/watch?v=ll90vpeeA4c&t=1108s

This is supposed to be avant-garde or something? Sounds nice and all but R+7 is doing much more experimental stuff. This just sounds like pretty standard ambient beats.

GoD is on par with R+7. You just don't get what he's doing.

What album?

muh emotional MIDI

>pretty standard ambient beats
opn fans in a nutshell

Not OP, and this sounds nice, but the first track still leaves R+7 as the most imaginative album. Not a definitive judgement, obviously, but I have to sleep.

>360 artistic turn
>on par with
Are you dense?

Try it again friend. It's not something I expected, but apparently NIN influenced GoD while the two groups toured or st so that might help the context for you.

What would you call it then? It's "chill" 4/4 dance music. It's not doing anything remotely special or weird.

Skipping around to other parts, it sounds even more typical. Comparing it with OPN is like apples and oranges.

it was released in 2001, shit like this, Klaus Schulze (which is from wayyyyy back) is what influenced Dan.

People used to make fun of 0PN for being Klaus Schulze worship

OPN fanboys are so devoted that the guy can release a recording of casio presets and they'll cling to it as the most innovative forward-thinking shit ever.

>"chill" 4/4 dance music
oh my fucking god

R+7

I hear a lot of influences in OPN's music, but this album doesn't sound that similar. Can you link a song it sounds like?

It's 4/4, it's dance music, and it's trying to give that ghostly reverbed feel. What about that is wrong?

>OPN fanboys are so devoted that the guy can release a recording of casio presets and they'll cling to it as the most innovative forward-thinking shit ever.

Of course I would, if it were actually good. Just because he's using cliched old presets for the MIDI noises makes no difference. He's playing a MIDI keyboard by hand. The composition and arrangement is all that matters.

Case in point.

It's my pleasure to be an archetypal fanboy.

I'm just saying he took ideas that people have been doing as far back as the 70's w/ Klaus Schulze and 90's stuff like John Beltran, mixed it more modern stuff like vaporwave and new types of gear and plugins capable of different sounds and sorta made it his own. He's not bad, just sorta entry level. I got into this type of stuff because of him but honestly I think older stuff sounds nicer and feels more genuine, I dunno

youtu.be/7TU_APlC1EM?t=47m16s

except techno is a rhythm-dependent genre whereas opn admitted in interviews that he couldn't keep a steady rhythm to save his life

not him do you know which interview he said that? ive heard about it before but i havent seen the actual interview

>watch random youtube video of a random new age song
>comments section full of people calling it proto-vaporwave and speculating whether it was an influence on James Ferraro and OPN
It hurts.

did you even listen to the link I posted

listen to this opening track. Released in 1995 and imo much better than 0pn, obviously this shit influenced him.

youtube.com/watch?v=ddyO9z7Y0iE

>p4k kiddie discovers techno
wew

holy fuck someone discovered techno through a well known artist? What the fuck dude you really showed him!

Wait what's a brainlet

It doesn't make you right to just say that

I can definitely hear the similarities and influence on OPN and I like it, but I still prefer OPN.

OPN seems to be a bit more idiosyncratic and experimental compositionally (not just because of the presets and weird stuff he uses). His stuff feels more alien and gripping in a way that's hard to describe.

no this us dubs u fukn vlownhat

this sounds like orbital or some boring shit like that, user ur seriously a fool for sure, i think your just trying to comes off as an expert by putting down something good

nice try with the hate tho!

>77
nice duvs

>orbital
>boring shit
literally (as opposed to figuratively) kys

R Plus Seven (Warp, 2013) is too amateurish to be taken seriously. The brooding requiem-like Boring Angel is mildly entertaining (but hardly revolutionary) and most of the rest is either trivial (like the ambient and pop fusion of Problem Areas, or the noisy drone of Chrome Country) or chaotic (Zebra). 5/10

Scaruffi once again confirms his literal shit taste

OPN fans once again confirming they're all underage.

kys?

it means nice dubs

>

those aren't dubs just a sloppy string of unrelated numbers

now these on the other hand...

Scaruffi is a great source if you're new to an art form and looking for a decent sampling of its best pieces, but his opinions of individual works are largely worthless, since he spends the bare minimum time consuming a work leading to wildly inconsistent judging metrics.

>it's only worthy if it agrees with me
lol

(((attempting))) to look smart and actually being smart are two very different things. smart people don't listen to these stuffs. only edgy college students

What is he doing

I listened to both the other day without any context

watering-down new age and industrial music for the nu-male hipster generation

That's not what I was implying. Think of the art form with which you're most familiar, then take a quick browse through his corresponding greatest works list, and you should immediately notice that his judgements are not based on any consistent standard.

For example, my own area of expertise is literature, and this is his top 15 for that field in descending order.

>Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
>Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
>Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
>Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
>James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
>Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
>Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
>Pynchon, Thomas: V
>Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
>Faulkner, William: Light in August
>Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
>Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
>Joyce, James: Ulysses
>Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
>Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse

The difference between these in terms of their artistic complexity, their historical achievement, their technical difficulty is massively different. There is no conceivable metric aside from "I like, just, like, feel it speaks to, like, my soul a bit, like, better" that places Wuthering Fucking Heights within a hundred places of Ulysses.

I (((don't))) think you know how echoes work or what they (((mean.)))

ok

so how is opn any more special than the plethora of bedroom new age artists before him

Firstly, to clarify my position, I'm not of the opinion that this is a revolutionary album, nor that it will go down in time as a classic, nor that Scaruffi's criticisms were incorrect per se. My contention with Scaruffi is entirely with the 5/10 ranking, which I think is egregiously low, especially for a reviewer who would simultaneously rate The Knife's Shaking the Habitual a 7.5 or DG's Exmilitary and 8.

With that established, I believe what makes the album deserving of something more is--in short--the trait consistent across all art forms, that separates all critically acclaimed works from the non-critically acclaimed, its level of pure artistry. I apologise if that explanation resounds inadequate, but to explain any further I would need to first write an essay on aesthetic theory which I don't care to write and which I suspect you wouldn't care to read.

At a more meta level, I should note that of my motivations for commenting in this thread, a defence of this album was entirely secondary to a warning against deferring to Scaruffi as an authority specifically on individual albums, due to his inconsistency.