Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica

This was the only real loop-based track on the album. I think Joel and Dan came up with a bed while syncing together the MPC and D-50.

OPN talking about the track 'Power of Persuasion' from Replica; "The Yamaha CS-01 was a keyboard I got on suggestion from Robert Lowe (Lichens) and it’s a tiny monosynth from the early 80s that shreds, and we got it to sound like trumpets."

Q: Every time I've seen you play, you're using a [Roland] Juno-60. Is that your bedrock?

A: "It was my dad's. He bought it in 1983, when I was one year old. He bought the Juno because he couldn't afford the Yamaha DX-7, which was like the pop synth at the time."

Q: And you just inherited it at some point?

A: "Yeah, I really loved it as a child—it looked like a cockpit dashboard. I think it made me resent the Samick piano upstairs. Like, the Juno was in the dark, in a cold basement under a plastic sheet, and the Samick was upstairs and it signified MOM BEATDOWNS. She was my teacher, strict Russian-style, but she let me quit piano, so she wasn't really that strict. Anyway, I started using the Juno in high school. I was in a jam band with my best friends. We wanted to sound like Herbie Hancock Thrust. "

The third element was a few sample layers Dan was jamming through the 555. I think the bed involved percussion, piano, and a male voice saying “waste”. On the other end I was messing with some Sherman distortion and enveloping to make it swirl. The song ends in a break also sampled on the 555.

OPN talking about the track Sleep Dealer from Replica: "A lot of the low end on the record was Al processing the main sampler track through a Sherman Filterbank."

Al Carson talking about the track 'Explain' from Replica: "Think there was also some Juno 60 and Memory Man mixed in there."