Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

Kraftwerk? Eno? New Order? OMD? Hell, Chic

Yeah...most people didn't listen to these things back then! A 20-year-old listening to Eno in 1997? Velvet Goldmine hadn't even come out yet for fuck's sake.

I'm a massive music nerd and I never listened to Eno

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIoL8b_CUAEA-Ny.jpg

I'm a massive music nerd and was listening to that shit as soon as I hit high school. Which was 1993. Just sayin'. Eno (for example) had already been working with U2 (biggest band in the world), so it's not like he was that obscure! The only big dif in 1997 is that the term "electronica" was coined (or close enough to then).

I imagine some French bat cave, where they descend down a pole, open a secret door and scour a wall of cool robot costumes, deciding which is best for the situation.

stupid question but how was it decided which robot was Bangalter and which Guy-Man?

height prob.

That's cool Josh in Chicago, but that shows you're a deep digger, which not everybody is. The lacrosse team didn't start listening to Peter Gabriel III in 1994 just because Steve Lillywhite also produced Under the Table and Dreaming.

but what if they had

Makes you think

Put down your lacrosse sticks and listen to this, you white caps!

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRAO7QyCtRWnyhvHzZj8BtJzkAvMGcTl12FVgmktvlaYEf6GZpU

: D

does anybody remember when the whole robots thing started? was it as early as homework or

it started w/Discovery. they sometimes wore masks before then but not robot helmets.

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1994 just because Steve Lillywhite also produced Under the Table and Dreaming.

Swear to god, I listened to that album because Steve Lillywhite produced it! I was in my dorm (of course), fall of '94, and some girl from Virginia was all, wow, you have an advance copy of the new Dave Matthews! So I was all, who the fuck is Dave Matthews? And she was all, he's great, put it on! And I did, and it sucked, so I gave the CD to her.

Robot thing kind of is a result of them being very media shy though, no? Even during Homework they refused to have their picture taken. I also seem to remember they wore ordinary masks while dj'ing around that time, but I could be wrong about that.

Early attempt:

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

That was back when they were all analog.

Paris, 1976:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDsPRSRC3s

It's not exactly a stretch.

http://coldcrush.com.au/images/space-magic-fly-cover.jpg

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-466832-1264955237.jpeg

ie, robots have always favored Paris discotheques.

What about the ones in Dusseldorf?