Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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).

anonanon not christian prommer?

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.

― anonanon, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― anonanon, Monday, April 22, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was a selling point of Rinôçérôse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04bICS8-XFg

the bays?

are there actually more guest vocalist videos to come now there's a single out? would be weird to not do ones for PB and Casablancas now (altho i doubt the latter has much of interest to contribute really). either way i'm assuming they won't bother with Gonzales as he seems less involved.

That Brandt Brauer Frick record is terrific when they're really going for it rhythmically and yawn-inducing when they slow down and focus on repetitive piano chords and moaning cellos. Those tracks are like a run-of-the-mill post-rock record.

They're entirely irrelevant to this thread obv. Don't even think the concept of 'dance music with real instruments' is particularly interesting, unless they're really going all-out rhythmically.

In a way, that "get lucky" edit is still just a sample of the final track, after the 10 secs and the 1min samples.
somehow it amuses me to think of it that way.
and it means there's more to come !
the release of the edit allowed me to calm down about this and have a rest before the final release... it was too exhausting this excitation day after day... but it was also so fun to feel that way for the first time in a while !
I think someone said something about this upthread (or was it in one of the videos ?) but DP are pretty good at giving that simple joy and fun. that's what good pop is all about really !

henrik schwarz gets close to the bbf vibe sometimes. his live thing with bugge was pretty cool.

i can't get into bbf myself really, despite a few attempts.

yeah, me either. too dry & restrained, and the "jazzy" detailing bugs me.

either way i'm assuming they won't bother with Gonzales as he seems less involved.

according to Pharrell's video he went into the studio once for a couple of hours and didn't remember anything

Gonzales has worked with and been friends with them for over ten years, and can talk about music for hours on stage, don't know why that would make him less likely to do one

i know they're long time super-friends it just seems like they're only doing videos for people contributing vocals and iirc Gonzales 'just' laid down some piano. i'd welcome any clip of him waxing lyrical about DP or music in general tho.

that said the only clip i like so far is the todd edwards one because he's NOT a star, has such a different perspective as a result and made somewhat unexpected revelations compared to the others (fascinating almost-naivety from the guy re his days as a studio shut-in/non-clubber and subsequent discovery of west coast livin').

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

Well Giorgio Moroder and Todd Edwards were in the first batch and I don't think they were involved in Get Lucky. Or are you just wondering if the next videos are just going to include brief clips from different song? Cause that's entirely possible.

i'll admit i moved it up to 92 to avoid cosmic thing and 'jump they say'.

I was going to remind you about Bowie.

The production on Good Stuff is subpar for Rodgers (didnt help that the songs sucked)

The production is actually as widescreen as The B-52's got (check out "Dreamland" and "Revolution Earth"). To me the songs are only a couple notches below Cosmic Thing's.

(this might need its own thread)

but does anyone remember a group making "dance music with real instruments,"

iirc, this was kind of the idea behind the Whitest Boy Alive

(but prob not what you're remembering)

this will only reify rtc's concerns but in the new piece on DP in GQ, zach baron quotes guy-man hearing Solange's "Losing You" in a store and going like "now THATS good" or something

after discussing their antipathy to current dance music

anonanon not christian prommer?

― the late great, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 2:57 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, it doesn't seem to be, a little too... jazzy?

Actually having listened to Paparazzi by Brandt Brauer Frick this is closer to what I remembered, a kind of repetitive rhythmic piano over 4/4 beat, but prob still a bit too busy production wise; I keep remembering something that scanned as house music but built more simply around sort of reverb-y repeating live piano and drums and not much else. For peace of mind however I think I will just claim victory and convince myself this was it.

how soon we forget MOON HOOCH saxophone dance party

The production is actually as widescreen as The B-52's got (check out "Dreamland" and "Revolution Earth"). To me the songs are only a couple notches below Cosmic Thing's.

At first, all I could remember about revolution earth was the boring refrain but now I remember that the rest of it gets pretty funky, "dry country" style.

oops, that was a response to Alfred. Off topic anyhow

Based on all the hype so far around their two collaborations, I feel like there's almost a 100% certainty we get a Paul Williams Collaborators video.