When cosmic drone-synth
explorer Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) and ex-Tigercity bassist
Joel Ford fulfilled a childhood dream late last year of forming a synth-pop duo
the last thing they imagined would hamper the project would be a face-tatted
ex-affiliate of 50 Cent.
However, the pair have
had to loose the Games moniker that served them so well on last years
exceptionally excellent That We Play
EP on advice from their label.
Mexican Summer, which
is home to the pairs’ newly minted Software imprint, advised Ford and Lopatin
that the Games alias could possibly kick up a stink with Interscope-signed thug
rap aficionado The Game who has recently switched to being known as just plain
old Game.
“We were told Game was
a little too close for comfort,” bemoans Lopatin over the phone from his new
studio HQ in the bowels of the Mexican Summer complex in Brooklyn, New
York. “It was kind of a
pre-emptive strike to avoid the legal muscle of Interscope as opposed to us
having the guy beat down our door yelling at us to cease and desist thank God.
That would not have been good”.
With the Games alias
cruelly swiped from their paws Ford and Lopatin have decided to become known
as, well, Ford & Lopatin.
“We actually wanted to
come up with another band name but nothing felt as comfortable as Games for me
so we figured we might as well just be ourselves. We’re definitely more Kruder
& Dorfmeister than Hall & Oates though”.
Channel Pressure, the highly anticipated Ford & Lopatin
long player is due on the seventh of June and Daniel couldn’t be happier to be
releasing it via the duo’s own imprint: “We see Software more as a production
imprint than a label per se. Mexican Summer have some amazing studio facilities
in Brooklyn that they have been kind enough to give us the run of to work on
both our own material and with other bands. After the F&L LP and the next
OPN LP we’ll initially be focusing on smaller 12” and EP releases for folks
like Sleepover and Laurel Halo but if the right artists come along we’ll be
looking to release LP’s as well in the future.”
Here’s hoping that
release schedule is not cut short by enraged gangster rappers or major label
lawsuits.
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