Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

One of the breeziest most enjoyable pop tracks likely to come out all year, one that gets me going like all hell together with this summer weather and the cherry blossom peak season, and you guys sour up the thread nitpicking quotes from people who also talk about I don't know space and aliens and robots operating in the 5th dimension to change your life in relation to this project I mean come oooon it's a party up in here.

I played the official release out tonight btw. Nobody seemed to recognize or notice or be particularly enthralled. (This was at a fairly shitty portland indieish dive bar though so I mean what do you want)

Lex, kudos for your excellent piece on Jai Paul at tQ.

But thanks for talking bollocks on here about Daft Punk, I feared sanity had poisoned you for too long, wb <3

i appreciate the effort it took 4 u to dredge something, anything, up there but reappraisal is not reiteration

don't worry, it was easy.

there's a ton of jobbing nu-disco around right now that's better than this, even minor stuff!

I would happily check out a ton of jobbing nu-disco too - even minor stuff! - if you'd obligingly drop some names instead of just obscure genres. : D

well there's nu indie disco like the lindstrom and chrisabelle record or pop like kylie and madonna, classic dj stuff on environ morgan geist etc or there's re-edit stuff like pilooski, dimitri from paris, leo zero, todd terje and about 10 million 'underground' names like patrizio & andrea, love unlimited vibes, then there's the whole claremont 56 thing with people like in flagranti, mudd, linkwood then you've got disco edits from detroit which has been happening forever, same with underground french filter disco, london has always had a huge disco scene from the tonka days with dj harvey or like idjut boys or whatever

nu-disco a totally meaningless term tbh and this doesn't really feel like it's part of any of those scenes but it certainly feels like it's at least aware of them, nods to soft rock, analogue recording, chic, balearic, it's a bit crusty/stoned but all in the context of a pop single / art project

yeah why listen to this when you could listen to that stuff^^

disco, guys

there's a lot of it out there

u think daft punk invented it but yr wrong

well there's nu indie disco like the lindstrom and chrisabelle record or pop like kylie and madonna, classic dj stuff on environ morgan geist etc or there's re-edit stuff like pilooski, dimitri from paris, leo zero, todd terje and about 10 million 'underground' names like patrizio & andrea, love unlimited vibes, then there's the whole claremont 56 thing with people like in flagranti, mudd, linkwood then you've got disco edits from detroit which has been happening forever, same with underground french filter disco, london has always had a huge disco scene from the tonka days with dj harvey or like idjut boys or whatever

fuckin "kylie and madonna" etf. XD

the rest of that is good info though. I love lindstrom, although not the christabelle record, and todd terje. the rest of those names are completely mysterious to me, so I'll gladly check them out. it doesn't make me like this song any less though (and I'm not an enormous daft punk fan to start with.

Lex, kudos for your excellent piece on Jai Paul at tQ.

But thanks for talking bollocks on here about Daft Punk, I feared sanity had poisoned you for too long, wb <3

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, April 19, 2013 10:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ironically i did think a lot of it could be applied to daft punk but i've been paying too little attention just to lob that in there too

♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪

♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪

― 乒乓, Friday, April 19, 2013 7:36 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we're going to need robot ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪s for robot voices, get on it someone

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So I think this is better than Robot Rock, but not as good as Release the Beast.

Thought I'd clicked on the Boston bombing thread, was very confused

it's hard to shake the intuition there is something rotten if not even essentially malign at the core of this lark

Please to explain

the part they've been pushing at the coachella fest and elsewhere is great but the pharrell verses before and after that are horribly flat, vocally and musically, pharrell's "uh"s and "aha"s sound lazy as hell. like he just doesn't know what else to do other than make that lame sound. shame because that leaked section was so promising.

I don't care if people think this song sucks -- I love it but it does sound kinda weird/flat if you listen to it right after e.g. a Le Knight Club record -- but trying to say what they're doing is "rotten" is almost offensive to me. I feel a good heart behind the music despite the high-budget hijinks.

why would you be offended by that?

cynical aspects to the style and presentation yeah but hey what's up generous and ascendant groove

when i took french the teacher asked us to name some french musicians or bands and the only one anyone said was "the robot guys, daft punk" so i mean, i guess thats p famous

ok that was literally 1000 xposts

well there's nu indie disco like the lindstrom and chrisabelle record or pop like kylie and madonna, classic dj stuff on environ morgan geist etc or there's re-edit stuff like pilooski, dimitri from paris, leo zero, todd terje and about 10 million 'underground' names like patrizio & andrea, love unlimited vibes, then there's the whole claremont 56 thing with people like in flagranti, mudd, linkwood then you've got disco edits from detroit which has been happening forever, same with underground french filter disco, london has always had a huge disco scene from the tonka days with dj harvey or like idjut boys or whatever

dig a fair amount of this stuff. doesn't make me love "get lucky" any the less. sounded amazing & put a smile on my face right off the bat. still does.

and griping about ridiculous hyperbole in their generally ridiculous promotional campaign is, well, you know...

pharrell's vocal sounds kind flat like that because that's what a vocal sounds like that hasn't been hacked to death. i really his delivery in this. mix and mastering engineers have done an A+ job on this, just had a listen through a big soundsystem and it just gets better and better the more you turn it up.

yeah - i was just gonna say, it sounds minimally processed (mainly on the chorus) and given what we saw from moroder yesterday, it's Very Much Intentional

tbh I think the Moroder post was based on the 128kbps mp3 which might just not get that loud to begin with -- that's how the low bitrate My Bloody Valentine mp3s were. Tho it definitely lacks that vacuum-cleaner compression sound, which is a good thing IMO.

when i took french the teacher asked us to name some french musicians or bands and the only one anyone said was "the robot guys, daft punk" so i mean, i guess thats p famous

ok that was literally 1000 xposts

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), vrijdag 19 april 2013 17:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Did the teacher know who they are, is what I'd like to know

Also Pharrell is a producer turned vocalist and hes always had the singing abilities of a mosquito. Guy does have charisma and emotion to compensate.

Guy does have charisma and emotion to compensate.

*did

But he was terrible at trying to interview Nardwuar.

better than owt on Human After All.

the highest of bars

Alexis Petridis Alexis Petridis ‏@alexispetridis 22s

Bloody hell RT @nilerodgers: I've just heard from Daft Punk: Get Lucky #1 in the US & 44 other markets around the globe. Congrats.

If nothing else you have to enjoy the idea of Nile Rodgers having a #1 hit again.

Niles

its not about pharrell's vocal "chops" anyway, its about the sound of his voice

Lex you are doing that thing you did on the Justin Timberlake thread when you don't even actively dislike the record but are basically declaring a fatwa on it because other people have the temerity to find it enjoyable.

If you listen to enough nu-disco you basically get used to terrible European singers vamping their way over a fantastic groove and credit to Pharrell for nailing it here.

Although I'm guessing Daft Punk themselves actually wrote the song?

definitely

Pharrell never really had charisma in front of the mic imo. Like he was always a bit awkward. Anyone think Timberlake would have done a better job on this?

I agree with jed about this record basically, it's pretty good imo but the snippet promised a bit more in terms of his performance. For some reason I feel like an extended mix could really do the job for this.

Be interesting to see which remixers they get in too, with a pick of whoever they want, presumably.

Could largely do without hearing any more "nu-disco" again, fwiw.

no discussion of nu disco that is supposedly better than daft punk is complete without mentioning classixx. 'get lucky' is quality, doesn't outshine the other disco i like, but fits happily right beside it, and i'm super excited to hear what the rest of the album sounds like. it's just more fun with the hype-train and fanfare and everyone being into it, obviously lex disagrees.

If you listen to enough nu-disco you basically get used to terrible European singers vamping their way over a fantastic groove and credit to Pharrell for nailing it here.

it's funny, i was thinking about all the new disco/boogie stuff we were talking about on some other thread - skream's latest remixes, krystal klear, jessie ware's new one, gorgon city - and how much more alive those vocal performances (and indeed arrangements) sound

the classixx album is really really great

agreed about an extended mix, the mind boggles at all the remixes that will come out of this album... xxpost

i can't wait to hear the clasixx

^^^

was half paying attention to the SNL eps w/ miguel as musical guest, when the daft punk commercial came on I just thought it was more miguel

Am I too late with this?

https://soundcloud.com/tastynetwork/daft-punk-get-lucky-original

how is a song no. 1 in 44 countries after having been released 12 hours ago