Brooklyn synth wizard
Daniel Lopatin aka
Oneohtrix Point Never toiled long in the trenches of the noise scene before eventually breaking through to international acclaim with his glowing 2009 compilation
Rifts.
Rifts gathered together the best excerpts from an already lengthy discography of small-release cassettes and other lesser releases, the likes of which
Lopatin would continue to spit out even as accolades continued to come his way. Released in 2007,
Betrayed in the Octagon was more or less the debut of the project, and focused on arpeggiated tones from vintage synthesizers, cascading through phrases of haunted elegance and more mellow new age reflection.