
Released as track 4 of the Bleep:10 compilation (May 5, 2014), 'Need' sits at the intersection of OPN's post-R Plus Seven period and the broader early-2010s experimental electronic canon represented on Bleep. Bleep.com was Warp Records' affiliated digital retailer, and the 10th anniversary compilation gathered a defining cross-section of the label's aesthetic universe — from Gas's ambient techno to Autechre's IDM.…
Situates OPN within the post-IDM, post-internet experimental electronic milieu of the early 2010s. 'Need' as a compilation exclusive represents the format of the boutique digital-label commission — short, concentrated, without album context — that was central to underground electronic culture's…
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