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Oneothrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

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Oneothrix Point Never - R Plus Seven One of the first outings of the newest brainchild of Daniel Lopatin, recording under the moniker Oneothrix Point Never, was the video for “Problem Areas” featuring artist Takeshi Murata and his digital installations. You can see a silver, terminator-ish skull surrounded by oranges, eggs and a book titled `Art and The Future´ or another installation with a miniature ship sitting in a plastic bottle; all set to the sonic ideas of Lopatin.  Out of many writings about the artwork and installations of Murata, the best term to describe his work and to put it into context with R Plus Seven must be something close to `digital vanitas images´. Just like the art movement in baroque times, artists would take various objects and put them in context of worldly existence, death, decay and eternity. While formerly this would include burning candles, wilting flowers, human skulls and even instruments paired together on canvases, Murata brought this i