"The hyperreal world music of 2010's Returnal was inspired by the fact that people now see more of the world than ever without actually leaving their homes. In 2015, Garden of Delete had an accompanying origin story about an adolescent humanoid alien called Ezra; 2018's Age Of imagined artificial intelligence attempting to recreate human culture after humans themselves had been rendered extinct."
"Tranquilizer is constructed from a cache of old sample CDs pre-packaged collections of royalty-free sounds that used to be sold to musicians and producers in the 90s and early 00s that Lopatin found uploaded to the Internet Archive. An extra frisson came when, after bookmarking the page for future use, he discovered that it had been deleted. It subsequently reappeared, but it underlined the shakiness of the assumption that everything is preserved for ever in some corner of cyberspace."
Oneohtrix Point Never's Tranquilizer continues Daniel Lopatin's pattern of concept-based releases that transform found material into cohesive albums. The record draws on a cache of old sample CDs—pre-packaged, royalty-free sounds sold to musicians in the 1990s and early 2000s—which Lopatin found uploaded to the Internet Archive. An extra frisson accompanied the discovery when the bookmarked page briefly disappeared and later reappeared, highlighting the fragility of assuming permanent digital preservation. Lopatin's prior works mined nostalgia through warped 1980s pop loops, obsolete synthesiser presets, and shifting US radio formats. Tranquilizer feels related to Replica, sharing an interest in repurposed, found audio.
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