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Daniel Lopatin, the musican and film composer better known as Oneohtrix Point Never , has an origin story, one he seems slightly amused to remember in such detail.

It takes place in an outer Boston suburb sometime in the mid-’80s, when his father, a struggling Russian-Jewish immigrant who entertained at supper clubs (among other jobs), needed to buy a synthesizer. A drummer friend found one on deep discount for him: a Roland Juno-60, the same model heard on a-ha’s bouncy “Take on Me.”

Lopatin’s dad had something more pragmatic in mind. He created a makeshift carrying strap out of belts and kept the keyboard in the original box in the basement in between gigs.

“He used it essenti

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