You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Daniel Lopatin has been making experimental electronic music as One O' Tricks Point Never
since 2007.
In this episode, he takes apart the song Sticky Drama from his 2015 album Garden of Delete.
Coming up, he'll break down how he created artificial voices using software for the vocals,
and how he sees his songs as pieces of science fiction.
My name is Rishikesh Hirway.
You're listening to Song Exploder.
This is Daniel O'Patton, aka 10trickspointnever.
I wanted to conflate really aggressive music with sugary pop progressions and also sugary textures and create a psycho scribble,
like the way a little kid will psychotically draw in his notebook and it just has this live wire vibe to it.
I got inspired by this particular plug-in called Serum.
It's just a software synthesizer.
The main progression.
It was a preset that we tweaked in Serum.
And the sound tells you how to play it in a way.
That's what I like about presets is they kind of beg to be played some way and you have to decode them.