Listening to “Laser to Laser” by OPN is like digging up parts of my childhood I can’t remember. Everything seems fuzzy, but I remember how everything used to feel. Genuine excitement, being interested and wanting to learn about anything, and loving things unconditionally. Sometimes, the only way to dig up these memories, at least for me, is to listen to music like this. And even then, I can only feel these memories.
I think many people experience phases in which adulthood feels like children's prison. Periods in which excitement cannot be expressed and experienced freely and new things only feel like variations of things that you've already seen. Fortunately there are various ways to break of this prison and music is definitely one of them.
everytime I listen to this music and watch this video I always feel like this footage is also part of my memory, like I've also been in this place somehow.
Such beautiful music and visuals - the tension between the yearning for a return to the simplicity, yet confusion, of youth and the complexity, yet knowledge, of our adulthood is played out here on the grainy, over-saturated colour of the lonely beach of nostalgia. The time that is past is yet to come...
I listen to this on average 13 times a week, and this is the only song i’ve heard that’s like honey: it’s sound and replayability legit can’t expire. Update on this because that’s cool: it aged alright, believe or not
Listened to this during the comedown of my first psychedelic experience. A lot has changed since then, and I'd like to think this song somewhat influenced those changes.
@C6H12O6sugar They both certainly love that ultra slow, shallow vibrato sound. Gotta love pitch drift. I just love how music like this takes my mind to somewhere during the late '70s and early '80s.
Agreed, Joy Division were the first I was aware of that did it deliberately for effect for example 'Decades'. OMD also did it a lot on their early records...try 'Sealand'
@moodini99 I see. Thanks for telling me all that. I want to check out the songs you have listed. Not to play devil's advocate, but I like the warped time feeling you get from the bent notes. Maybe you will like Oneohtrix's "returnal" It has more stucture and solid time, but still embodies a futuristic time warped escence. Thanks again.
@moodini99 Hella, older mars volta, kudu, washed out, animals as leaders, fleet foxes, fela kuti, robert plant w/ alison krauss. I like a big mix too. I was just wondering what influences you had to see why you disliked Oneohtrix Point Never sooo much.
@SplitSight Oneohtrix Point Never is just one guy, btw. And if you can't tell the difference between Oneohtrix and Boards of Canada, you should probably listen more closely.
Most bands these days use the same tools (guitar, drums etc.) while still often maintaining a semblance of originality. Not bashing this or anything, but the resemblance is undeniable.
@C6H12O6sugar maybe if oneohtrix instilled scattered beats and a sample of children counting backwards from 20, you'd have a point about him ripping off BoC. but he didn't. he has produced layered synth music. it's unlike BoC except for the ambient format, which many artists follow and BoC did not create. both are good artists. both are original. leave it at that.
@C6H12O6sugar It's not just "analog synths" that make them sound like boards of canada. There's tons of sounds that come from analog keyboards. But in this case, these synths sound EXACTLY like some of the ones I hear on BoC records. Same with the song structure, and general mood of the song. Hey, I'm not saying I don't like these guys, they're just not original
I just have the impression that this "phanomenon" just comes from a journalist wanting to enter history at all costs by coining some nerdy name for an allegedly innovative music style, what, IMHO, is practically a utopy in today's pop scene. Pure vanity, pure surface, pure deception.
well i'd say that this music nods more to kosmische, music from germany in the late 60's throughout the 70's, more than anything. boards of canada seems to have had less inspiration from kosmische than this band does. Thus, this band > Boards of Canada.
@C6H12O6sugar Hey I've got no problem with oneohtrix, but if I have to listen that closely to tell a difference between the two, I'd might as well listen to some BoC.
@emuajbeat yep, those guys just arnt happy with analog, theyve got to push it into full on warbling almost out of tune VHS video style with the LFO's. Pisses me off how people think they have all these magic analogue synths, when really the effect most people are on about can be easily acheived with almost any synthesizer, a little knowledge and a tape recorder. Anyone! If you want to get htis sound, its just a matter of whacking a random shape LFO slightly affecting OSC pitches.
futuristic in what way? synths have been around for decades. this would have been futuristic in the 70's maybe. to me though, it reminds me of the past
The music sounds quite nice, but can someone tell what is new about this to call it "hypnagogic pop". After repeated listening of many bands of this "new" movement, I still haven't heard anything difference with the likes of Cluster, Faust, or even early Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. If music is understood as the intentional combination of sounds in time, the collection of sounds itself, regardless of the way the have been done, for me this stuff brings absolutely nothing new.
Hey. You seem to like some great music. As to this 'song': I doesn't seem to have any structure or cadence. Also, the noises are more nauseating than melodic. I've only heard this song, and I can't stand it. lol A few of my favourite songs are: Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad Of John Henry Eva Cassidy - Fields of gold Joan Armatrading - Rosie OMD - Enola Gay Local H - Hands on the bible Alter ego - crowd rocker Glen Miller Orchestra - Moonlight Serenade Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of silence
Don't be dense, dude. I wouldn't bat a lash if somebody sneaked this track into the middle of BOC Maxima or Geogaddi. Well, I wouldn't if I didn't already have their albums burnt into my subconscious.
@telebaath well said, while their work remains timeless, they better take your (& wu-tangs) advice and protect their necks, they should be producing music for inspirational movies or documentaries
