28 Jun 2011

YouTube = Total Recall

Just finished chapter two of Simon Reynolds' Retromania, hey I'm a slow reader. Big chunk of it is focussed on the work of Daniel Lopatin. Best known for his work as Oneohtrix Point Never, who I've never really dug (unlike XXJFG), it hones in on his work as Sunsetcorp, especially his track Nobody Here.

As the cads state in the comments, it's the ultimate answer-phone message. Yet perusing the sidebar, another facet of Reynolds' chapter on Music and Memory in the Time of YouTube, is the far more interesting track Angel, both visually and musically, though it shares the same warped, spooky melancholia as Nobody Here.