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Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) · Oneohtrix Point Never is the artist name of Daniel Lopatin, born in Boston in 1982 to Russian-Jewish emigrants with a musical background. The name is a play on the Boston radio station Magic 106.7. He studied archival science at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and began in the noise scene of the early 2000s. An important instrument is the Roland Juno-60 synthesizer that he received from his father. With Brian Reitzell he worked on The Bling Ring (2013). For the Safdie brothers he wrote Good Time (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019), and together with Josh Safdie Marty Supreme (2025). Good Time received the Soundtrack Award at Cannes.

Listening

Listening tip. Notice the fast, frantic synthesizer arpeggios and the lack of resting points, which makes the music follow the panic of the protagonists.

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