Daft Punk - Human After All

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if human after all = discoverys textures (nasal guitars, vocoders) + homeworks structure (ultra repetitive, BASS (which robot rock mihgt have in spades, as noted above)) then its just fine by me.

― :| (....), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway you can't expect a "windowlicker" every time.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

who wants a "windowlicker"!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

"harder, better, faster, stronger"?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

look i was inclined to agree with you that this song is disappointing, but on the other hand i just watched that clip like five times in a row.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i think the thing i dislike most about it is how clunky it feels, especially those fat guitar chord fragments between refrains. daft punk normally make such nimble tunes - this seems almost below them.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, I just got an advanced look at the album art for Human After All!

http://www.mackron.com/random/daftpunk_humanafterall.jpg

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched it about ten times in a row. I might watch it again soon. I want to believe!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan, you're killing yourself. :) Cast away your all too human curiosity and join us at the Church of The Pure Daft Punk Experience. No sneak-a-peaks allowed. We wait till March 21st for the Total Experience with an empty mind and we wear cool robot helmets too.

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

haha!

I am listening to the Black Strobe E-mix now, very calming.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost
I hope that they wear human masks this time!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

OVER the robot masks!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

ooooooooooooooh.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

01. Human After All
02. The Prime Time Of Your Life
03. Robot Rock
04. Steam Machine
05. Make Love
06. The Brainwasher
07. On / Off
08. Television Rules The Nation
09. Technologic
10. Emotion

This tracklisting does kinda look like Blue Oyster Cult song titles.. kinda?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooooooh, how amazing would it be if they covered "Don't Fear the Reaper"????!!!! MORE 808 COWBELL!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah this clip is fucking awful.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i watched the clip several times as well, as i said upthread, it's infectious despite the monotony and apparent lack of imagination in it. one thing that struck me instantly was the funky riff, i'm not sure what it is but it sounds so FRESH. they may have spent six weeks recording it but something about that sound makes me think it could've taken eight years to ferment and tweak...i figure the album is half about song and half about sound, again occupying a platform between the two previous proper albums.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

problem is, murs' "intro" uses the exact same sample.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

how is that a problem??

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

that'll teach you to stay off the murs.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

?????

Just because Renegade Soundwave sampled that Mandrill lick on "Blue Eyed Boy" from Soundclash years before Public Enemy based "By The Time I Get To Arizona" on it on Apocalypse 91.., doesn't make me like the PE song any less!

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

all i meant was that it's hard to pretend they spent eons tweaking the sound when the same sample was used elsewhere. that's all.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

advance word from a friend: "on/off is ace. best best. makes me cry. more emotional than one more time."

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

It's hard for me to pretend that length in recording has anything to do with the quality of a song, in general. Maybe "Robot Rock" was done in 7 minutes. Does it make a difference either way?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

no!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronan: "Ess is some of it actually far out or weird?"

(spoiler alert, obv)

"The Prime Time Of Your Life" has these shaffel-y drums that sort of sneak up on you, until the tempo starts increasing to the point where some crazy dutch gabber would feel like DJ Screw in comparison.
"Steam Machine" is not much more than a distorted voice whispering "steam machine" like it was a chorus out of that Primal Scream-Xterminator-cd. And it sounds like a steam machine.
"Make Love" is an instrumental, sort of a cousin to "La Ritournelle" by Seb Tellier, you'd imagine Bryan Ferry singing over it.
"Brainwasher" has a robot voice saying "i am the brain washer" over a very mechanical riff. The voice gets very stretched out and fucked with like in some forgotten jungle 12" from 93. "On/Off" is just a skit, some noisy channel surfing which I guess fits in to the TV theme for the supposed album cover (which I haven't seen but heard about).
If the first album was Dr Dre and the second was ELO then this one is Huey Lewis (in a crazy loop stuck inside of P Batemans head).

― Essdot, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

If the first album was Dr Dre and the second was ELO then this one is Huey Lewis

Spoiled indeed.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"La Ritournelle" is one of my favorite tracks from last year. The video is very odd (Tellier is in general, but in a great way).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

saying huey lewis keeps away the riff raff.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i am loving this:

advance word from a friend: "on/off is ace. best best. makes me cry. more emotional than one more time."

-- mark p (mark.p****...), January 17th, 2005 4:50 PM. (Mark P)

vs this:

"On/Off" is just a skit, some noisy channel surfing which I guess fits in to the TV theme for the supposed album cover (which I haven't seen but heard about).

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ba dum bum ba ba i'm loving it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

haha yeah i was wondering about that too. my source is a good friend, and he specifically said it was track seven, "on/off", that got him all wobbly in the knees, so i dunno...

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd chalk it up to bad knees.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

holy shit. you guys we not kidding about THE GUITARS.

Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure what I think yet, but this has certainly got my attention.

When will the whole thing leak?

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I found this on the bluebird...it appears to be the opening 2:45 of some song (its not the same on on the camcorder video, is it?)

Daft Punk - Human After All (Sample)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link

well, whatever that sample was.. it threatened to build and threatened and threatened and threatened and then just... fizzled out.

worst
tease
ever

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link

It would be really funny if all these elements in the hype campaign.. "robot rock", this sample, the Ess character here, and all were just making all this shit up, and then we got the real deal.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i wasn't talking about the guitar sample here btw

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link

djdee2005: different track, i'm sure that TB sample Steve Winwood YET AGAIN tho

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

WOULDN'T sample i mean

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Soulwax has remixed "Robot Rock", according to my friend Kevin, who knows these things.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

not listening to leakey things, decided

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

im wondering if i could hold out for two months. it'd be an interesting experiment, i guess.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I waited for A Grand Don't Come For Free, and the excitement built up to such a pitch that when I finally got the record I could barely hear it, if that makes any sense.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://rapidshare.de/files-de/39755 5/Daft_Punk_-_Robot_Rock__Yes_Real_ .mp3.html

Really really real?

― JakeWithBrain!, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh robot Christ, these two months are going to take forever. (wonder if we're going to beat that Dave Matthews thread though. :)

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Broken link

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Jake: really really real!

Has anybody figured out what the sample is?

― Essdot, Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Would anyone like to reassemble that into a working link for me?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

the file is now gone. jake, do you mind yousending it please?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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