Oneohtrix Point Never

Oneohtrix Point Never is a musician in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2007, Daniel Lopatin has constructed albums around compositional obsessions ranging from Roland synthesizer arpeggios to plunderphonics and MIDI presets, mining overlooked sources like ad jingles and sample library sounds.

Daniel Lopatin makes music out of sounds that were never supposed to matter: ad jingles, TV idents, '90s sample CDs from companies like Zero-G and Spectrasonics, the synthetic muzak that scored waiting rooms and PBS science shows. Working under the alias Oneohtrix Point Never since 2007, he's built each album around a different compositional obsession: Roland Juno-60 arpeggios on the early cassette releases, plunderphonics on Replica, MIDI presets as philosophical objects on R Plus Seven, nu-metal textures on Garden of Delete. His 2025 album Tranquilizer pulled its raw material from a 400GB archive of '90s sample libraries that vanished from the Internet Archive and then reappeared: the instability itself becoming the subject. He studied archival science at Pratt before switching to music; that training stuck. The question he keeps returning to is what happens to a feeling once the sound carrying it disappears.