Rifts

by Oneohtrix Point Never

Rifts cover art

Acting as Daniel Lopatin's expansive breakthrough, 'Rifts' is a sprawling compilation gathering his highly limited, synthesizer-based trilogy of early cassettes and LPs. Heavily indebted to 1970s Berlin School electronics and sci-fi soundtracks, the project utilizes looping, decaying arpeggiators to craft vast, profoundly nostalgic cosmic landscapes. The massive collection effectively jump-started the modern analog synthesizer revival and deeply informed the emerging vaporwave movement.

Genres

  • Progressive Electronic
  • Ambient

Tracklist

  1. Woe is the Transgression I
  2. Behind the Bank
  3. Eyeballs
  4. Betrayed in the Octagon
  5. Woe is the Transgression II
  6. Parallel Minds
  7. Laser to Laser
  8. Ships Without Meaning
  9. Terminator Lake
  10. Transmat Memories
  11. A Pact Between Strangers
  12. When I Get Back From New York
  13. Computer Vision
  14. Format & Journey North
  15. Zones Without People
  16. Learning to Control Myself
  17. Disconnecting Entirely
  18. Emil Cioran
  19. Hyperdawn
  20. Lovergirls Precinct
  21. I Know It's Taking Pictures From Another Plane (Inside Your Sun)
  22. Blue Drive
  23. The Trouble with Being Born
  24. Sand Partina
  25. Months
  26. Physical Memory
  27. Grief and Repetition
  28. Russian Mind
  29. Time Decanted
  30. Immanence
  31. Melancholy Descriptions of Simple 3D Environments
  32. Memory Vague
  33. KGB Nights