Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Level By no means, has had a busy 2025. He launched his new 0PN album, Tranquilizer, and scored new movie Marty Supreme. The film is the solo directorial debut from Josh Safdie — whose earlier movies had been made with brother Benny Safdie — and it marks the third function they’ve made collectively. (Good Time and Uncut Gems are the earlier two.) Timothée Chalamet stars because the titular Marty, “a younger man with a dream nobody respects, goes to hell and again in pursuit of greatness.” That dream is to grow to be the perfect desk tennis participant of all time. The movie additionally stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler, The Creator and the forged additionally contains filmmakers David Mamet and Abel Ferrara, magician Penn Jillette and musicians Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance) and Wiki.
Lopatin’s rating is fairly nice, participating whether or not you’ve seen the movie or not (this author has not but), and although the movie is ready within the Fifties, the rating may be very ’80s: suppose what Tangerine Dream did for Dangerous Enterprise and Legend, or Jan Hammer’s Miami Vice rating. It options some cool collaborators, specifically Isaak Mills, who’s flute abilities are throughout this, ambient icon Laraaji on thumb piano, and Morricone-esque Edda Dell’Orso-style vocalisations from Weyes Blood who Chalamet appears to love rather a lot even when he doesn’t know the right way to pronounce her title.
Lopatin says of his rating:
The music of Marty Supreme got here from an obsession with coaxing melody out of buoyant sounds— compiling lots of of mallet strikes, tines, and fast flutes to observe mercurial Marty round on his huge journey…. and who’s a ping pong ball of a human himself. I wished the rating to dwell between custom and invention, with neoclassical components grounding the world round him as he finds it with guidelines, limits, and strain. The digital textures lean into the long run he imagines, at the same time as these forces start to take care of one another.
I’ve about one million and one issues to share with you, however proper now it should be mentioned I had the best, scrappiest, hardest working staff {that a} composer might ask for. A lot of the job of music division head is admittedly simply selecting nice individuals who encourage and make nice issues, and in that sense I did a tremendous job
Take heed to the Marty Supreme rating under.
In the meantime Daniel Lopatin is on the brand new episode of man-on-the-street gameshow Observe Star the place he’s quizzed about ’80s music. Unsurprisingly he does very nicely however he does mis-identify one of many songs he’s performed. Are you able to do higher? Watch under.