Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

(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.

I want it to be fake now, 'cos that way we get a new thing on Friday, while on Wednesday some cat's made something good enough to get me moonwalking round my kitchen

Well I'm wondering if the full album version will end up getting released soon, or if we'll have to stick with this till the album comes out.

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.

Yeah it sounds off. I must insist that the vocals in the verses sound too loud /unmixed compared to the rest of the song.

That's what I thought at first, but the 'what is this I'm feeling' line is the same, and it's definitely real. It's the chorus harmonies that make it seem so I think.

This is Human after all all over again. Like the phoenix, indeed

If it's fake then the faker has recorded a perfect groovy punctuating piano part to go underneath the spliced vocals, in which case give the guy a contract. (or my ears are lying, in which case never mind)

Well sonic themselves are confirming it's actually fake (albeit similar to the real thing). Could be they fear for their lives.

https://www.facebook.com/sonic1029/posts/10151548979762580

the version they played on the radio was fake
the version they accidentally posted was not

Who fakes the fakers

makes u think huh

columbia got people shook

how deep does this thing go

while this gets cleared up.. I'll just leave this awesome fan made cover in here:

http://i.imgur.com/kXrmwM3.jpg

Upthread, like half an hour before the leak, I said the Belgium station Studio Brussel got the track and would premiere it on Friday.

No that it leaked and is all over the internet, they just played it anyway, saying it's out there now, so no need to wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-Mrc2l1d0