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Oneohtrix Point Never: 'Nobody Here'

Who would have thought a slowed-down sample of Chris de Burgh’s voice could be so influential? Looping just one line from the sickly singer-songwriter’s ‘Lady In Red’, Lopatin made the most ubiquitous of what he termed his ‘echo jams’, spawning peak-internet microgenre vaporwave in the process. The video was taken from a vintage ‘Rainbow Road’ computer graphic which Lopatin edited in Windows Movie Maker and uploaded to YouTube under the name SunsetCorp. Having since been edited into 1:06:07 (geddit?) and 10-hour versions, ‘Nobody Here’ remains popular among fans of Mario Kart, LSD and spelling words l i k e t h i s.

  • Sam Davies