Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

'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

Elektro Guzzi?

Noze did dance music with real instruments, no?

another more obvious one i guess is moritz von oswald trio

JF: as much as I like Get Lucky unless they have at least two obvious bangers hidden in RAM I dont think it has a chance of becoming THE definite daft punk album. The bar feels too high after Discovery. Get Lucky isnt as obvious, to my ears at least, an immediate hit as One More Time felt at the time, per example. I wont judge it until it comes out though. The hype is there, of course, so it does have the potential of being a huge album, Let's see if the music lives throught it.

yeah for a single that's gonna be their biggest radio hit by far (though curious if it ever approaches 'one more time' as a jock jam or even perennial party jam, 2007 played a part i know but i swear i was hearing that thing routinely at parties as recently as 2010), i feel no annoyance or shame that this will be their 'big hit', the gap between 'get lucky' and 'musique' or 'digital love' or whatever is hardly as huge as the gap between eg 'walk the dinosaur' and 'wheel me out'. somewhat befuddled by ppl decrying ppl anticipating this or enjoying daft punk period, what miserable loser killjoys, but also somewhat befuddled by ppl actually harboring expectations that this could measure up to discovery or homework. discovery was 12 years ago, homework was 16 years ago, they've been around for nearly twenty years. think about where nile rodgers was in 1992, moroder was in 1992. you could argue that daft punk haven't been anywhere near as productive as those guys and so aren't as used up or out of ideas (though i would also that having and developing ideas tends to beget new ideas) but you could also observe that daft punk's peak doesn't begin to approach those guys either.

xpost to anonanon: the new deal?

think about where nile rodgers was in 1992.

The production on Good Stuff is subpar for Rodgers (didnt help that the songs sucked) but he was only 3 years removed from Cosmic Thing. I don't know how much he technically contributed to that album, but the tracks he did produced were hot as hell.

Guitar-wise, he also sounds hot as hell on "get lucky", imo.

"that album" = Cosmic Thing

yeah his guitar on 'get lucky' is best thing about it imo (and i like the track), i'll admit i moved it up to 92 to avoid cosmic thing and 'jump they say'.

nile's intense tweets

@nilerodgers

Party Animals - #blog #daftpunk #getlucky @Pharrell #goodtimes #chic @Pink @LMFAO #party #music http://t.co/SN8Y1JUNQL

Guitar-wise, he also sounds hot as hell on "get lucky", imo.

beating cancer / writing his great autobio / touring like a MF with a Chic Org revue seems to have revitalised him in lots of ways

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

This sounds amazing.

God damn.

I'm not sure we can pin the blame for people getting excited by things they're familiar with on Daft Punk, try as we might.

Though personally I only try everything once to avoid resting on laurels, every day is like Memento for me, culturally, not that I enjoyed that movie once it was finished.

to the helpful guessers: thanks, but no luck so far. The group I'm searching for had a more experimental/minimalist vibe I think? I remember hearing a lot of repetitive piano parts over house beats played on live drums; and maybe even motorik beats? I feel like it was a band with at least a pianist and a drummer that played a sort of live house music. If that rings any bells for anyone I will be glad to learn it was not just a fever dream

so are the rest of the Collaborators videos going to revolve around the second single?

My guess would be that every featured guest will get his own Collaborators video at this point, but they're not going to be seen until the album gets out there (or shortly beforehand).