Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Either it was unconnected or Daft Punk were just controlling the universe to suit the music.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:33 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wouldn't put it past those fuckers.

this is my feeling when listening to this:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2oibwiSB01qz9rjn.gif

guys you can totally dance to the new Fall album

The drum solo on Giorgio putting me in mind of the end of "Aja"

^texted my drum-nerd brother this as i was first listening

(was that a strokes knock? coz i dunno about their last few albums but those first two are still fucking great, and his vocals are full of personality.)

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:35 PM (Yesterday)

strokes knock

finally read the pitchfork interview, this line is interesting:

At one point during our interview, Bangalter let it slip that he and de Homem-Christo recently had a meeting with De Palma to "discuss some things," though he declined to divulge any specifics.

!!!!!

O SHIT

would eat lima beans to see that shit

eat enough lima beans and you will

i guess they just talked giorgio?

aaaaand here's my verdict for Crack magazine:
http://crackmagazine.net/music/daft-punk/

anyone who hates touch is just a bad human being

morally

Looks like I wasn't the only person who was reminded of "Wonder 2" with "Contact".

i do like giorgio, but it's not my favourite (via the middle third sounding like a good bit of the tron soundtrack)

How can you discuss Touch without mentioning the super fun Dr. Buzzardry of it?

iatee otm.

i only know one dr buzzard song and tbh they probably aren't what the readers of that magazine are into.

How can you discuss Touch without mentioning the super fun Dr. Buzzardry of it?

One of the pieces I read (PFM?) mentioned that they had recorded orchestral arrangements for all (or most) of the tracks but ended up only using them for a handful of them. Given the complexity of so many of these cuts, I imagine some really interesting outtakes could be floating around.

Dr. Buzzardry

likes

I read they worked on Get Lucky for 18 months. That's insane.

CD leaked, full lossless FLAC is available.

every time I listen to 'Lose Yourself to Dance' I find it more melancholy, I'm trying to come on come on come on, I'm really trying :'(.

the come on come on come ons don't even sound like they're too bothered

i'm not sure i hear the melancholy in lose yourself to dance.. definitely hear exhaustion though

couldn't disagree more-- the whole song feels so desparate and urgent

Touch is filled 2/3 with rubbish. The intro is useless and Paul Williams voice is too histrionic for my taste. The rest is beautiful.

so Pitchfork is gonna give this the ol 6.9 aren't they

after three days of listening i'm more or less ready to put this down.
meanwhile, after two months of john talabot...

really? talabot got about 2/3 plays from me and that was it, even though i thought it was good.

for me, it's been on heavy rotation more or less since I heard it. Which may say something about the kind of electronic music i want.

talabot still giving me life over a year on

I have absolutely no idea what Pitchfork will give this.

i do actually mean to give DP another try but lots else to listen to, not really been moved to do so - heard the new eve album for the first time yesterday and have barely been able to take that off repeat

Touch is filled 2/3 with rubbish. The intro is useless and Paul Williams voice is too histrionic for my taste. The rest is beautiful.

Touch is one of those songs that 10, 15 years ago would have been a great source of controversy in music nerd circles -- the pinnacle of ambition to some, an overindulgent embarrassment to others. Before Kid A, part of the fun of listening to records with songs like these was to pour through the different opinions and try to decide which camp you belonged in.

A recent quote in the Pitchfork piece made me think that in some ways, they're consciously trying to will us back to that time:

"Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great," says Bangalter, talking about the proliferation of home recording and the laptop studio. "But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic-- if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?"

yeah, talabot not getting old here either, although i think i will say the same thing about RAM in a year's time

probably been said already but the album cut of get lucky is really disorienting after listening to the single so many times - it's many bars longer but has 0 extra content and loses a lot the momentum of the single version, kind of wish it didn't exist

I wuz sorta hoping that the bloopy outro was a minute long on the album

haha yeah that's the one part i wanted more of too and instead it gets slowrolled more

touch into get lucky is pretty genius tho

the album sequencing is basically perfect

lose yourself > touch > get lucky is a great run

http://news.qthemusic.com/2013/05/qa_nile_rodgers_-.html

You are one of the few people in the world for whom a success like Get Lucky is not entire new...
"The interesting thing about this, not only was the relationship with Daft Punk was great and making the record was cool, but I've never had a record leak before. The guys were really upset, everyone had agreed to a schedule and next thing you know the record was turning up before they expected it to come out. People were getting nervous, they were worried about it not fitting the marketing plan and I had to try to be the voice of reason. At the end of the day it's about music not marketing. No one I've known has ever brought a record because of a clever marketing campaign, they buy music because they like it. You can hear it for free any how, if someone marginally likes it they can wait till it comes on the radio again, or whatever. When it gets under your skin and you have to have, you have to own it, that's what you're going for! I said: Guys, people will either like or they won't, we can't deny that's the record. It would be awful to say that's not the record when it really is. I can understand how it was unnerving as they thought they had it on lock down but our hand was forced. People will either like it or not, and that's what you have to think about."

uhoh: Right now I've been writing songs with Avicii.

"Right now I've been taking Avicii's ideas and shredding them and beating everyone involved over the head with my guitar."

haha just saw an interview w/ todd edwards where he compares get lucky to jamiroquai

i would like to give it up to whoever recommended alex moulton's exodus upthread, i am on a journey through the star system of myself

Just heard get lucky being used to advertise the Peter Andre ITV Three reality show :(

limmy (who is one of the best and worse people on twitter) pointed out that get lucky is destined to end up on gala bingo adverts