Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

"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'.

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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.

paul williams? pffft

would love to hear them collaborate with paul johnson again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCaMrGOVBv0

haven't heard much from him since the amputation =/

this super "classic rock" bar I go to is playing this song right now btw

Journalists who attended the listening sessions of the new album yesterday had to sign an agreement that if they mention anything about the album before May 1st, they will be fined 10,000. This guy must be loaded.

re: dance music with real live instruments, what about that awesome detroit experiment remix tim f had in his countdown a few years back

i don't even know if its dance music but its awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXtVLKaU0E

Sounds like no shortage of vocoder on this.

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

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 14:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

after discussing their antipathy to current dance music

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 14:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark

i only mentioned it earlier cos i was thunderstruck by the staggering hypocrisy of that one statement but otherwise i repeat dp's antipathy to now is totally not my concern. their fans' implicit antipathy otoh...

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.

anonanon, maybe you're thinking of The Vegetable Orchestra? Or Maxence Cyrin, who did piano covers of some ecltronic classics? Those are the only ones I thought of that weren't brought up before...

Panda Bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8jmBbG4T6c

moving bookmark

"sort of just gotten wind of electronic music"

Well, I mean, it was 1997.

I forgot, they hadn't invented electronic music yet.

"So we were, um, wondering how ... we could .... um, make people, I guess, less excited about the new album? Just, like, mumble a bit about ... singing something. I guess? I didn't have much ... time to think of something, but they sort of nodded at this thing I did at the ... last minute, so I guess they liked it enough to use it? You know?"

No, but if you were to poll a group of people who were teenagers in the 1990s, that would probably be the year that most people "caught wind" of electronic music.

He was 20. Silly argument, though. He had never heard of Kraftwerk? Eno? New Order? OMD? Hell, Chic or anything, since he's sort of conflating dance music and electronic music? Fine, maybe.

We don't know how much of a square he was at 20. I was probably around 20 when I started digging around outside my comfort zone musically.

Fair enough, maybe he was listening to REO Speedwagon and stuff.