Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

xpost

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?

Also from Paris:

Rockets
Charlie Mike Sierra
Claude Perraudin
Venus Gang
Electronic System (cheating: from francophone Belgium)

Judging from this list, Paris produced more space/robot disco than Italy, which came as a suprise to me.

well that was dull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q8jmBbG4T6c

collabs: p bear

who was 18 when homework came out ftr

I was 9

i was 18 when homework came out

I... was 25

everyone's favorite track was actually "Revolution 909" for the first few months

OTM

scratch that, i was 20!

i think i was 18 when i heard "musique"

then "da funk", and then only really after the video came out that "around the world" really took off

for reference iirc the big anthems (in california at least) of the day were like "psychic bounty killaz" and "fly life"

will admit that the first thing i thought when i heard spirit they've gone, spirit they've vanished is 'well somebody's been listening to omd'

I was 22 when Homework came out, at college radio all the dance music DJs were like GAHHHH THIS IS THE NIRVANA NEVERMIND OF ELECTRONIC THIS WILL CHANGE MUSIC

and it kinda did but not in 1997

heard 'praise you' on the oldies station the other day

:(

reminds me that fifteen years ago when i was playing the fuck out of 'rockafeller skank' i don't think i imagined i'd someday see something like this (she's all that i know but still)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxvrQk4WX8

pretty strong argument against 'dance music but w/ real instruments'

looooool

dance music with real instruments:

http://open.spotify.com/track/6F6Y70NMfazpvjDEhMTOqT

lol that they left out the vocoder part, like people are supposed to sing it

now I remember why I stopped watching Dancing with the Stars

also holy hell

kellie pickler dances like a girl who knows how to have fun

I like that they give each collaborator a different color of backlighting in these vids

One of the songs will sound like the Doobie Brothers on Segways. What will the rest sound like?

Panda Bear being Panda Bear?

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...

CrispyBen, nope no luck on those leads, thx though.