Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

tim & rtc are just jealous bc daft punk aren't collaborating with the ineffable genius DJ Q

are analog synths embraced and fetishized by rockists now that fruityloops/garageband/reason et al are so prevalent, or have they always been. are they a 'real instrument'

lol my god now I'm being painted as a grinch, I love this track!

edm has made rockists of us all tbh

are analog synths embraced and fetishized by rockists now that fruityloops/garageband/reason et al are so prevalent, or have they always been. are they a 'real instrument'

when Rush started playing them

edm has made rockists of us all tbh

gimme "bangarang" or "starships" every day over this

both those songs are like over a year old, grandpa

lol my god now I'm being painted as a grinch, I love this track!

― Tim F, Monday, April 22, 2013 11:22 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw i was just playin

analog synths are definitely embraced & fetishized by musicians, idk if they are rockists or not, certainly not by the classic definition of "rockist"

idk if they're a "real instrument" because it depends on how you define "real instrument." you can play them physically on some level and get an instant response so in that sense they can be performed "live," but there isn't an acoustic sound source like guitar/bass/piano/drums

#thingsualreadyknow

It seems the live drums are the point on this album. I'm not sure it's being presented as a "real instruments" affair beyond that.

are analog synths embraced and fetishized by rockists now that fruityloops/garageband/reason et al are so prevalent, or have they always been. are they a 'real instrument'

― 乒乓, Monday, April 22, 2013 10:22 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see stereolab, broadcast, boards of canada, etc

analog synths are p rockist imo, "i play synth" *look askance* "--no no it's an analog synth. it's like, old, from the 70's" "oh, ok cool"

TheStarTrekMan, are you out there? it's me, 乒乓

real rockists hate keyboards

as far as making traditional "dance" music on analog instruments goes, brandt brauer frick are making some pretty fantastic stuff right now

ooh I was reading about them, wanna hear.

'you make me real' is really good, not as keen on the new one. haha and i wouldn't call it traditional 'dance' music - it's pretty out there! huge analogue basses, sampled piano strings, skittery percussion. it's very very very impressive if a little.. um, dry in places.

"daft punk doing real instruments y'all!!" cannot seriously be a promotional angle, like honestly who would care

jfc, i turn around for an hour and you guys make "presentism" into a thing and run it into the ground

3.5 hours later and it's still going on.

You people will never get lucky.

lol

"Presentizm" was the worst Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era single, IMO

but indeed, this thread is completely absurd now (as opposed to when it was about getting crazy about short loops of disco-pop euphoria) !

Missy has sold far more records in America. Daft Punk has, like, no commercial footprint.

"One More Time" disagrees with you, Alfred.

"One More Time" and "Around The World" were both in daytime MTV rotation when that kinda sorta still mattered, is one thing that gets lost when we talk about how they both coincidentally peaked at #61 on the Hot 100.

Brandt Brauer Frick isn't too distant from "What if Penguin Cafe Orchestra grew up listening to minimal house". Pop minimalism (Steve Reich is rather current, what with the new Pantha and Mungolian's "Toccata" from last year). Agreed with Crackle that BBFs You Make Me Real had more personal impact than the new Miami.

Brandt Brauer Frick isn't too distant from "What if Penguin Cafe Orchestra grew up listening to minimal house".

This sounds amazing.

Is the one with Om'mas Keith representative? That's so good.

Start with "Bop".

super likable, thank you

LOL christian prommer progger

the diff between the NERD stuff taking it back to 'real instruments' and daft punk doing it of course is that NERD was unsuccessful relative to their hits whereas daft punk are about to have their biggest album (in America)

brandt brauer frick currently rocking my world

my favourite brandt brauer frick thing is prob their emika collab, "pretend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBPEbF_u0cY

daft punk are about to have their biggest album (in America)

I'm gonna venture to guess this will be their biggest album everywhere.

i was too young to really understand anything @ the time and this is going to sound blasphemous but when i started hearing "one more time" on the radio i thought it had gotten on the radio b/c of the success of eiffel 65

One of the crazy things about Daft Punk possibly going #1 in America -- which seems likely, given that their only real competition that week appears to be 30 Seconds to Mars, French Montana, and Jay Sean -- is how little precedence there is for #1 albums from acts outside the US/UK/Canada/Australia.

Not including artists who immigrated to Anglophone countries before their careers began (e.g., Mantovani, Santana, and Sade), I'm coming up with ...

2006: Il Divo (French, Spanish, American, Swiss)
1981: Vangelis (Greek*)
1980-81: John Lennon/Yoko Ono (British, Japanese**)
1968: Paul Mauriat (French)
1963-64: The Singing Nun (French)
1961: Bert Kaempfert (German)
1955: Crazy Otto (German)

*Based in the UK at the time
**Based in the US at the time

off-topic but TIM while you're in here the new fantasia album demands your attention

― flamenco drop (lex pretend)

how is it? I didn't feel "Without Me."

'one more time' is great but also makes me want to listen to 'music sounds better with you' for some reason. and 'love at first sight' even moreso.

'musique' is obviously the best daft punk track

How does Yoko not count as an artist who immigrated to an Anglophone country before her career began?

this is dope "real instruments" disco from this year. way more retro than "Get Lucky" tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmVBA8Q8zhA

How does Yoko not count as an artist who immigrated to an Anglophone country before her career began?

You're right, she does. I think I got confused because she's remained a Japanese citizen this whole time, but it's true that she never released music while she lived in Japan.

I was looking forward to this album until The Lex advised me that it's unhip and overcautious to buy into a slick marketing campaign.

Oh well.

a million xposts but that KDMS album was severely under-rated, a lot of nu-disco sounds very cheap and chintzy in a post-Kitsune way to my ears but it sounded a lot more elegant.

I like this new single a lot, but all this discussion of their previous glories has had me return to those amazing Crydamoure compilations which make me wish that was the sound being resurrected.

last time i'll mention brandt brauer frick but their "ensemble" record, mr. machine, is really hitting me right now; had it not been presented here as techno i would've thought it just incredible, heavily-syncopated jazz

I think the real question that needs to be posed is what the full-length version of "Get Lucky" will do with the additional 1:59.

'musique' is obviously the best daft punk track

― 乒乓, Monday, April 22, 2013 3:14 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

sorry to piggyback the brandt brauer frick tangent a bit but does anyone remember a group making "dance music with real instruments," I think mainly with drums and piano in the last ten years or so? It might even be just a duo.

Totally have no clue and it's driving me nuts, feel like I've imagined them at this point