Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

it's not that proggy! it's just basic musical sense

^, but i assume ARB was being sarcastic

maybe his phone likes to auto-correct "progressions" to "progginess"

I lap that stuff up. I could listen to that fellow talk basic musical theory all day. They should get Howard Goodall to do one next.

looking forward to the Paul Williams vid.

yeah cut the shit guys give us the paul williams vid

ooh, good vid

Two to one says we get Casablancas next.

(Not an amazing claim given that there's just him and Williams left, but it's a sure bet, you see.)

i demand omar hakim

^

where's Fonzi Thornton?

(Not an amazing claim given that there's just him and Williams left, but it's a sure bet, you see.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:35 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

does DJ Falcon not count?

really like the little melody he plays from the Moroder track

I dunno, does he count? (I really don't know! Guess we'll see!)

loved the chilly vid but it kinda waas like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyufyBZLXc

I love that clip so goddamn much.

so glad it's not gonna be a saul williams vid

Get Lucky Edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHSH9sJUEo

Fuck yeah a minor. The most louche of all the keys. La Ritournelle is in that, no?

Q review http://imgur.com/a/sYWEk

PROG DISCO

oh i just came, sorry

The first column of that review made me want to hate this album, the second half made me very excited indeed.

BELIEVE

I still dont like the cover. It seems like 2013 is the year for bad, lazy artwork.

All the anticipated records have had some halfassed artwork (yeah yeah yeahs, david bowie, justin timberlake, rihanna, mbv, strokes, azealia banks, phoenix, the knife, charli xcx, atoms for peace, daft punk). All lame.

And im not even counting hip hop. Lil wayne, waka flocka flame, kid cudi and tyler the creator are pretty offensive.

who would have thought artwork would suffer in the age of downloaded music

I just got the Knife album on CD and am marvelling at how horrible the cover is. Next to that or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs this is a thing of beauty.

http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/seb-wheeler-random-access-memories-review
http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/30/at-points-its-so-prog-it-hurts-first-thoughts-on-daft-punks-random-access-memories/

jesus, that review really makes it sound good.

The first column of that review made me want to hate this album, the second half made me very excited indeed.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:51 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my understanding is that they brought in Chilly Gonzales to build a musical bridge between the two columns

wow that Q review is dreadfully written..."the killer love drug Ecstasy"

That would be a joke

ha

ban jokes

Rodgers and Jackson whip up a breezy Californian vibe that makes you feel like you’re at the wheel of a convertible, speeding down an open highway beneath a vast blue sky…

This is a massive cliche but otoh this is the best kind of music.

makes it sounds like the eagles to me

Would be down with Daft Punk doing the Eagles if I'm quite honest.

wow that Q review is dreadfully written..."the killer love drug Ecstasy"

it sort of stuck out to me - it's not funny enough to distinguish as a clear joke.

it's the old "laughing at how bad your own writing is joke that is not really a joke and kind of self congratulatory" joke

the album sounds good though

Reads like self-deprecating old-fogeyness to me, not even laughing at own writing.

I just got the Knife album on CD and am marvelling at how horrible the cover is. Next to that or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs this is a thing of beauty.

― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 5:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the knife cover is aweseeom fuiud

ah it wasn't just that odd drug reference also the kind of clumsy "the voice is, of course, Giorgio Moroder's" type description of 'Giorgio, by Moroder' (ft. Giorgio Moroder) tone throughout that annoyed me (even just "their fourth album proper..." and then having to qualify this further...just get on with it!)

wgaf i was trying no to spoiler myself anymoer but the mixmag descriptions do have me pretty excited, apart from for the todd track :/

Early version of Contact on this 2002 mix apparently:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/01/stream-an-early-version-of-contact-the-dj-falcon-featuring-closer-from-daft-punks-random-access-memories/

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706595/daft-punk-random-access-memories-album-review.jhtml

And the album's most epic track, "Giorgio by Moroder," begins with an extended monologue by Moroder himself, pauses momentarily with a goosebump-raising drop — "My name is Hansjörg Moroder ... but you can call me Giorgio" — then blasts off with fuzzed-out guitar, strings, bubbly bass and even some laser bursts for good measure. You will dance until you drop.

stoked.

seems like the embargo on writing about this thing ended today, lotsa track-by-track pieces going up

saw chilly gonzales playing the piano last night and he had a big screen behind showing a bird's eye view of the keyboard and he said are you excited about the new daft punk record I was going to play a few things from it but then I spoke to their lawyers and well maybe I can show you instead and he did a bit of moving his hands around over the keyboard not playing anything and saying there's some of this and then a bit of this and the chorus and then it builds to this and then it goes kind of crazy and it was quite funny

wkiw chilly