Daniel Lopatin (born July 25, 1982), best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an American experimental electronic music producer, composer, singer, and songwriter.

[10] Lopatin began releasing primarily synthesizer-led music in the 2000s, and received acclaim for the 2009 compilation Rifts as well as the influential vaporwave side-project Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol.

[18] Lopatin initially released music under a number of aliases and as part of several groups, including Infinity Window and Astronaut,[19][2] before adopting the pseudonym Oneohtrix Point Never, a verbal play on the name of the Boston FM radio station Magic 106.7.

[21] Lopatin released a series of cassette and CD-R projects interspersed with a trilogy of full-length albums: Betrayed in the Octagon (2007), Zones Without People (2009), and Russian Mind (2009).

Much of this material was eventually collected on the 2009 compilation Rifts, which brought him critical acclaim;[22] it was named the second-best album of 2009 by UK magazine The Wire.

[18] The same year, Lopatin released the audio-visual DVD project[23] Memory Vague,[24] which included his profile-raising YouTube video "nobody here", and "eccojam".

7 with musicians David Borden, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin and Laurel Halo as part of RVNG's label series;[31] Ford & Lopatin released Channel Pressure, and OPN was chosen to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival.

[58] Also in 2023, he executive produced the score for the Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder satirical comedy series The Curse with John Medeski.

[60] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that Lopatin has engaged with "a broad and deeply idiosyncratic array of genres, samples, sources and strategies, from minimalism to collage to noise", often using "snippets of material—ad jingles, saccharine pop productions, throwaway dialogue—that he can't entirely dismiss as kitsch.

[61] In 2018, he began to use the term "Compressionism"—a riff on compressors, used by audio engineers—to describe what he referred to as "a historically motivated need to organize and make sense of an illogical flow of external media inputs.

"[64] For Stereogum, Lindsey Rhoades described him as "almost more of a philosopher/sound-collagist than he is a musician", noting his tendency to "elevate sounds otherwise considered cheesy" and prompt reflection "about why you have aversions to certain tones and timbres, and why others immediately bring childhood impressions screaming back into your brain.

"[66] Crediting the music that his parents introduced him to, Lopatin has stated various musical influences including "all the strange moments from Beatles songs", the jazz fusion groups Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever,[64][67] and progressive soul musician Stevie Wonder,[2] as well as later personal influences such as electronic composer Vangelis,[64] hip hop producer DJ Premier,[67] and shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine.

[13] He has also cited literary influences, including Romanian pessimist philosopher Emil Cioran,[68] and science fiction authors Stanisław Lem and Philip K.