Oneohtrix Point Never - A Pact Between Strangers

Label: Gneiss Things ‎- 06
Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: Nov 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Synth-pop, Experimental, Ambient
Tracklist
1 The Pretender 0:00
2 A Pact Between Strangers 12:09
3 When I Get Back From New York 16:26

[@lynn6760]

I blasted this music out loud while temporarily homeless and walking on a highway in the dead of night in CO in 2015. Rifts in particular. Will always hold a special place in my heart. Loptain said it was a compilation of tracks he'd made on his Juno in his dad's basement. And something about that is so inspiring to me. I really love the way he loosely lets himself play. Or just "riff" without a clear idea of how the song is going to turn out. I find that his earlier stuff has this playful quality that's really soothing

[@percybyssheshelley9694]

I have the Rifts compilation on CD, it really is something special. Great nightwalk music. Also, I hope you’re in a much better situation now!

[@percybyssheshelley9694]

I have the Rifts compilation on CD, it really is something special. Great nightwalk music. Also, I hope you’re in a much better situation now!

[@foxclub49er]

I feel that deep, the cold echoes of the night

[@mikac743]

Fellow ambient head nightwalkers

[@nasor3675]

thank you for sharing

[@jerrytheobnoxiousmouse.ser6161]

Oneohtrix Point Never would be a great name for a radio at the end of time.

[@dataruin]

or what ETs have named our radio signals from space.

[@not.spir0s]

I love this comment! Did you know that the name Oneohtrix Point Never actually comes from an NYC radio station? 106.7!

[@dataruin]

@@not.spir0s That I did not, thanks.

[@johnwilliams7835]

L R5 it’s actually a Boston based radio station. It plays a lot of adult contemporary music, hence the irony of basing his stage name off of it

[@apactbetweenstrangers9616]

Or for a band

[@lukebingus9432]

Daniel is a fucking mastermind. In my head he is the true successor to Froese, Vangelis, Schulze, and so on. R.I.P To them all and may Daniel live a long fruitful life and continue to bless us with amazing music.

[@Zakkujennasei]

Amen.

[@Paperbagman555]

I was a bit late to the party on OPN but I’m blown away by how consistent he is. Most of his old ep’s or lesser-known projects that I’ve heard so far measure up pretty well to his more famous records. His music is so dynamic - both dreamy and unsettling. I think I saw a comment describing some of Daniel’s music as ‘memories crystallised’ and his songs do make me think of memory and vignettes in life a lot

[@EYTPS]

You feel like you're somewhere in a nostalgic yet new world in the fantastic works of Daniel Lopatin.

[@ALotOfBottle]

Somehow this is probably my favorite of his early space ambient releases. I feel it has the most of that nocturnal postmodern psychedelic quality that I love OPN so much for. The cover, the album title, the track titles, the short span, and obviously the music - all just hit the spot for me. And the quote "No one knows the daylight, not even me." on the back...

[@maglim97]

Same here dude, spot on.

[@skunkop]

This album cover really feels

[@ghosthermes]

Can't believe how multifaceted Lopatin's sonic palette is.

[@citrusui]

Infinite glass captured into a memory. I imagine these arpeggiators and oscillators would still be running to this day.

[@shreddednerves]

OPN said they have a life of their own

[@sultanamiasmatic]

TIME LAPSES INTO ONE COALESCING OF COLOR AND SOUND, YOUR SKIN FEELS LIKE IT IS LIFTING OFF YOUR BONE AS YOU LOSE ALL SENSE OF SELF. THE CADENCE WASHES OVER YOU LIKE A HOT SHOWER. YOU ARE FREE.

[@percival7754]

you are gay

[@IN-eb3lm]

@@percival7754 LOL

[@delvin9494]

An astounding quote. Thanks, Big Money Simpin

[@devinis99]

One more day till 23, I’m 19, growing up and now starting to do something with my life. I’ll be back…sometime when I’m matured enough to show greatness to this world that is temporary ☮️

[@sultanamiasmatic]

@@devinis99 five years ago when i commented this i was about your age

[@operator7958]

The tracl the pretender feels so unreal and eerie and surreal. It makes me feel breathless and uneasy (In a good way). Feels like my soul's projecting outwards, slowly.

[@wizardcoolio]

looking through the comments on this video is amazing, there are people from upwards of seven years ago who have enjoyed this the same as i am now, and left their thoughts. but seven years ago i was 11 years old, i didn't know this type of music at all, and i would never find it for 7 years. but that comment sat there, on this video. its kind of hard to comprehend.

[@IZABELAqqqqq]

Honestly yeah, it may sound dumb to some people but I when I think about it its kinda surreal for me. I wonder if they still remember or listen to it like they used to.

[@joshuamlnarik5942]

Ah, yes - time! 😊

[@IZABELAqqqqq]

@@joshuamlnarik5942 I always forget that exists

[@raiwolf3606]

While listening to this, I imagine a rift, a time collapse of some sort where all people who feel lost, happy, sad, depressed and nostalgic (all at once mind you) meet, and talk about life. Them meeting wouldn't solve anything, but they would meet nonetheless. Time would stop for them to talk. Someone would have an information vital for another person's point of life.

[@googlekrishna7025]

I mean Yeh

[@alexbrk1157]

I guess the most mesmerized do not usually comment… but I will be the exception.

[@Zakkujennasei]

I imagine this song would be a great theme to a beautiful small lake, and three humans swimming in its cold but very refreshing water.

[@ryandavis7070]

holy music

[@myfaveyoutube]

So much water. So close to home.

[@dreamtheorists]

Great album. When I Get Back From New York is mellow

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

A three-track odyssey unlike any other, from the serene, soothing constants of The Pretender, the transitory, metamorphic power of A Pact Between Strangers, which finally mutes into the rich, incessantly free-flowing enigma of When I Get Back From New York.

[@billybobarino]

Could not have described it more perfectly.

[@danielmbc]

that kind of music that is only for the REAL HEADS OPN is truly a G(arden) O(f) D(elete)

[@AlonsoSalamanca]

The most beautiful piece by this guy. Respect!

[@xx_sanic_da_heg_hoge_xx420]

absolutely wonderful. so glad to have discovered this album.

[@hausb0mb]

It's early morning Los Angeles music.

[@markguillen3642]

Dylan Anaya LA at its best from 3am to 5am The 2 hours of peace

[@emill40]

So true

[@forgottenmedia5172]

it's six in the morning, in southern Italy. I'm coming down from the hills to go to work, the wind slows the olive trees, the first sun blinds me, the wastelands meet the airport runway. a pact between strangers starts as I pass the weather station, radar in the background, commercial vehicles pass in front of me but there is no one to drive them. the sea below me, I hear the sample of birds while seagulls alight delicately on the calm waves, the clouds look like abstract picture, the sky seems to be slipping over me, an uncluttered lawn a few kilometers after the old control tower, almost at the motorway exit, there is an old ruined house, I look in the window, see J. Ballard with an old wristwatch in his hand, he looks at me and I asks "what time is it?"

[@shreddednerves]

It's late night New Orleans music too 🌑🔭👽

[@DavidOsdosemil]

Great for reading scifi graphic novels. Currently reading The incal.

[@andrewsanchezky4341]

The Marvelous Jodo-Moebius work!!!

[@Unclejemima14]

childhoods end is a good one

[@derekluciani]

Dig the title / artwork

[@anthonyjam8341]

Very peaceful thanks!

[@pisca6496]

i do not think i am mentally ready for this

[@johnctwenty3]

Stunning.

[@manaspringmusic5893]

Really enjoying this

[@ExclusivelyEsox]

this is incredible

[@myxa3842]

awesome

[@stacyOyo]

So nice, the title, the cover, the music, everything is there that you can travel and create the scenario of this scene. Thanks for sharing.

[@antoinebourlon8192]

Masterpiece, nothing else to say, the second track is like a journey, so well imaged

[@kebiwoni]

The intro of A Pact Between Strangers reminds me of Shiro Sagiso's "Creeping Shadows".

[@davidgoodehillmusic5930]

niceee

[@marsfuture]

beautiful oneohtrix album, this. thanks you, uploader.

[@angelakard87]

greetings!

[@googlekrishna7025]

@@angelakard87 hello

[@angelakard87]

@@googlekrishna7025 👋🏻

[@IZABELAqqqqq]

@@angelakard87 you responded even after 5 years, love that

[@Waferdicing]

❤

[@guyfaux900]

Or a jukebox in the restaurant. ( don't panic)

[@joeldixton5627]

ahhhhhhhh

[@joeldixton5627]

I listened to this album today 20/09/21. I can see sunlight through the curtains, my girlfriend's asleep and my movements are lethargic.

[@joeldixton5627]

I listened to this album today 21/09/21. I can see black and white patterned bathroom floor, my dad's playing Zelda in the other room after his birthday dinner and I'm chewing on some plastic.

[@joeldixton5627]

I listened to this album today 22/09/21. I can see the mattress out under my orange bedsheet, my brother's working on his internship and my breathing is measured.

[@joeldixton5627]

I listened to this album today 23/09/21. I can see the night sky, but there's no stars in the city. My book is about a guy called Kelsier, my vision is clear even though I've drunk a lot with my mate Kris.

[@joeldixton5627]

I listened to this album today 24/09/21. My parents are eating some red sauce and spaghetti I made for them and talking with me awkwardly about university- I'm considering taking the amaretto upstairs when I'm done lol.

[@kasvava3396]

oui,

[@apactbetweenstrangers9616]

Nice

[@emojiiman8576]

indeed

[@IZABELAqqqqq]

Nice username

[@Magic.Window]

Released November 7th 2008

[@danielmbc]

hard listening music

[@Lemke68]

Anyone know the origin of the picture? It's marvelous.

[@stefangeorge2844]

Lemke68 looks like an evangelical baptism perhaps

[@garrettlemons5657]

Looks like part of a collage by Andrew McGrannahan.

[@Yeoldelole]

That sky is EXCEPTIONAL

[@shreddednerves]

Picture from Mars circa 2350

[@katatonicxvio]

+rep.

[@09cf]

god, i'd love to know what that album art is from

[@firebrnd13]

Looks like a baptism in Louisiana to me!

[@shreddednerves]

@@firebrnd13 woahhhh another LA OPN lover!?!?! Greetings from UpTwn New Orleans !!! 🦾

[@shreddednerves]

Andrew Mcgrannahan

[@yamlynn]

:3

[@jordancruz2142]

Had to add a like to make it 667, just didn’t feel right for the song.

[@percival7754]

thats more profound than you think

[@googlekrishna7025]

❤❤❤❤