Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer

Daniel Lopatin's new album returns to his musical roots

A couple of years ago, Daniel Lopatin discovered a massive music library ripped from commercial sample CDs in The Internet Archive. He bookmarked but didn’t download it right away, and when he remembered and wanted to return to it one day, it had disappeared.

After the files eventually resurfaced, Lopatin created a whole album exclusively with samples fr…