Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

What this video is

Released in June 2018, 'Age Of' is the opening title track of Daniel Lopatin's eighth album as Oneohtrix Point Never — his most genre-pluralistic work to date, weaving together medieval harpsichord, baroque instrumentation, MIDI synthesis, and post-industrial sound design. Lopatin developed a personal philosophy he called 'Compressionism' to describe his methodology of processing overwhelming contemporary media…

Why it matters

The title track 'Age Of' is a landmark moment in Lopatin's discography and in 2010s experimental electronic music broadly: its baroque-digital harpsichord melodies announced a decisive shift toward genre-spanning historical compression, away from the noise-and-sample-based abstraction of his…