Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

I thought those synth string bits were a creation of that guy who did one of the earlier fan mixes and also put a realy bad guitar riff in

Definitely hoping for more of the 2:30 vocoder bit at some point

<i>I thought those synth string bits were a creation of that guy</i>

They may be.

could probably have just listened to Infinite Nile Groove for the rest of the year and felt pretty good about life so anything on top of that is clearly a bonus

Which is the link everyone is swearing is real?

http://pmd.sonic1029.com/audio/downloads/rick_lee/daftpunk_getlucky.mp3

they took it down, another sign it's real.

this has the version that sounds v real to me http://beatsperminute.com/media/mp3-daft-punk-get-lucky-feat-pharrell-and-nile-rodgers/

anything that does not exist is real ~+~

What keeps the planet spinning?

I think it was okay when we were still capitalizing on the station's goof, but I'm pretty sure we don't link to mediafire downloads on ilx.

errr didn't know that my bad delete plz

mod to thread!

who are the thread police

Balls - Basement Jaxx were quite a bit bigger than Daft Punk in the UK, I believe, but that may be the effect of releasing a Greatest Hits that did really well. Plus their sound fitted in really well with the High Street bar house music of 1999-2001 anyway, in a way that Daft Punk's didn't (bar One More Time which was all over the radio). Like I couldn't really imagine Daft Punk headlining Glastonbury but Basement Jaxx did.

At the same time mystique and focus goes a long way and Basement Jaxx with never be *loved* in the same way Daft Punk are, and DP are amazing at cultivating affection. Like it's 10yrs since the last good Jaxx album and 12 years since the last good Daft Punk album but one band has spent the intervening time totally pissing over their legacy and the other hasn't. Which is why Random Access Memories is one of the three most hyped records of the year and no one in their right mind cares about about a new Basement Jaxx album in 2013.

Also the contrast in quality between Get Lucky and the abomination of a new single over on the Basement Jaxx thread is ridiculous. I dunno, maybe Daft Punk really did spent eight years cultivating perfection, is it that far fetched?

pull up the drawbridge, quick

http://iampierremenard.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/boromir_puzzled.jpg

give them a moment, for pity's sake

(Yeah sorry guys I'm going to take the Mediafire link down, this is a big one and we're a very googleable website)

Wait, there's a new Basement Jaxx single?!

yeah, it's either amazing or terrible; haven't made up my mind yet

no that's fine, thanks. apologies for the gaffe.

It's fine, it'll be all over the internet in like two hours anyway.

xps strong lean toward the latter.

Xxxpost Whats the other two most hyped records of the year?

JT had to have been one of them right?

And Beyonce is the other, would be my guess.

xposts OK, 1 minute in ... it's terrible

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/most-anticipated-albums-of-2013

Any of these?

lol The Avalanches are never releasing another record.

yeah as i was writing that i remembered that basement jaxx did very well in the uk. here i think the only track that made any real headway in the larger culture was 'where's yr head at', though i did see 'red alert' and 'romeo' on the box from time to time. still nothing approaching 'technologic' even, nevermind 'one more time' or 'around the world' and 'da funk' (the latter two being i think the real time peaks for daft punk - mtv played the hell out of them iirc). kinda interesting how much daft punk's profile has risen w/ hipsters and indie rockers, old news i know but i remember that the day discovery came out none of the indie record stores downtown carried it (and kinda scoffed at the idea), i had to go to walmart to buy it.

don't really think the track is fake but it's true that it sounds quite weird. The verses really fel like they've been quickly pasted onto a backing track (which is true but still...) and the transitions seem a bit rough. I also imagine there's an intro that's been chopped off. A bit disappointing overall in the sense that it does not add anything to the SNL version but whatever

from what i've heard about new avalanches i kinda hope they don't release another record tbh

kinda interesting how much daft punk's profile has risen w/ hipsters and indie rockers, old news i know but i remember that the day discovery came out none of the indie record stores downtown carried it (and kinda scoffed at the idea), i had to go to walmart to buy it.

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iirc daft punk was always big with the hipsters/indie kids, spike jonze videos etc etc

pretty sure all manner of impossibly precise Nile ad-libs will be gradually excavated from the verses in the coming years

The only one of those that feels huge by hype is Daft Punk. The rest of those that have been released already didn't really felt like huge marketable events (jt, phoenix, strokes, atoms for peace, bowie). Im guessing jay z, beyonce and gaga will make a big fuzz about their records.

it's true that it sounds quite weird. The verses really fel like they've been quickly pasted onto a backing track (which is true but still...) and the transitions seem a bit rough

I thought so 'til I got it on the big speaker then boom! and I believe

Are people still highly anticipating the new Earl Sweatshirt album?

well yeah - try to imagine who else would get away with such a slow tease of a campaign

o yeah i mean they were never uncool, it's not like if sheryl crow suddenly had hipster cred, just the idea that they would have a higher profile and provoke more excitement than conor oberst or whatever in 2013 would've been inconceivable, at least locally. i mean indie's still fairly quarantined, esp w/ dance (not that daft punk are or really ever were dance as many ilxors will let us know), and i've had to explain to too many ppl in the past week who todd edwards is, but i think a decade of dfa, bloghouse, and discovery slowly becoming this widespread beloved masterpiece)(i mean i know everyone on ilx has been down but you were not getting msm anticipation for human after all that you're getting for this, and kanye and the tour etc has made for a more favorable environment for daft punk in this demo than i could've hoped for back in 01 when the only ppl i knew who got 'digital love' were online.

lol at the idea the jt wasn't a huge marketable event. snl hosting gig promoting solely that plus five nights of fallon > an ad on snl

and the bowie got a weird level of excitement and hype also, way way more than i could've imagined. talk about someone benefiting from absence making the heart grow fonder.

Yeah I meant Daft Punk-Beyonce-Timberlake - those three albums are an order of magnitude bigger than virtually everything else in terms of hype and anticipation. I mean obviously an album like mbv was madly anticipated and the new U2 album will probably sell more than anything else we're talking about but they don't have the same sort of blockbuster event status.

(xpost ah yeah forgot about Bowie, that counts)

don't really think the track is fake but it's true that it sounds quite weird. The verses really fel like they've been quickly pasted onto a backing track (which is true but still...) and the transitions seem a bit rough. I also imagine there's an intro that's been chopped off. A bit disappointing overall in the sense that it does not add anything to the SNL version but whatever

this was my thought at first too but Daft Punk have always kinda operated like this. for all the slickness and stylization that they excel at they are really quite hamfisted w/r/t putting things together. Alive 2007 excluded

srsly, now that the bowie is actually out it's like everyone is like *looks at the floor, goes back to minding own business*

i've had some bowie freak friends coming up to me wanting to talk about it (they love it) and i'm guessing they'll catch on i am in no hurry to hear new david bowie but the bowie threads around here made it sound like it might actually be good. not sure how to qualify the mbv, obv historic anticipation, but there was nothing like traditional pre-release excitement cuz nobody thought that thing was actually coming out until the night it actually did. i'm not sure you can call ppl reacting to an album actually coming out and actually being great hype.

BFFs

this has the version that sounds v real to me http://beatsperminute.com/media/mp3-daft-punk-get-lucky-feat-pharrell-and-nile-rodgers/

what's really weird is i've told all of them, every single one of them, about the bowiesongs blog and praised it to high heaven and even sent them the damn url and i know none of them have read the fucking thing.

it sounds like a radio edit because it is a radio edit
xp

what's really weird is i've told all of them, every single one of them, about the bowiesongs blog and praised it to high heaven and even sent them the damn url and i know none of them have read the fucking thing.

Then fuck them and their ignorance.

If it has Pharrell singing about the phoenix, it's likely real. If it begins with just drums and bassline with a big "Swoosh" sound, it's fake.

And if it has both, it's someone trying to combine elements to make a longer version.