Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Thomas Bangalter on drummer Omar Hakim's playing on the second half of "Giorgio by Moroder": "I remember going to him and humming this really complicated drum and bass programming and he's like, 'Like this?' [makes drum noises] He's doing it exactly like I hummed but like 10 times beyond. It felt like, 'Whoa! What have we been missing being limited by our own programming skills?' He probably only did two takes for that part."

kinda shaking my head at people whose minds are blown by this, i mean it's fun but there's a whole world of drum clinics with cheesy play-along drums waiting for you.

i meant "cheesy play-along tracks"

Chilly Gonzales on the potential impact of Random Access Memories: "It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever."

yes, the cul-de-sac of not having enough money to record live drums in a good room with good mics and good compressors, thanks for the tip. ffffffff uuuuuuuuuuu.

hit a nerve?

first world problems

sure, it just seems pretentious and strawman-ish. i would be shocked if this record inspires anyone to pick up or record live instruments who wasn't already doing it.

xp

i think chilly might be clowning there a bit

Drums on "Motherboard" do sound a bit Too Pure.

― Modlizki, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:06 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, yes, i was thinking of mouse on mars. shudder.

i still love this album for the record.

first world problems

not really, the advent of cheap/"free" music software has expanded the ability to make good-sounding records in third world countries, right?

i think chilly might be clowning there a bit

yeah i'm sure you're right. the whole "revolutionary idea of recording live instruments" marketing angle has been a little annoying though.

Yeah, that Gonzales quote is awful. I like a lot of the album - especially the broadway-stuff - but I hate all that anti-modern-music stuff surrounding it. Especially when it doesn't really offer any solutions other than giving the elite more money and attention to deliver something the rest of us can't.

it is unfair that daft punk were able to make such a good record when other people don't have those resources

they should have made music on iPhones like the common man

chilly gonzales sucks

nile rodgers won't even return my phone calls but for some reason he'll do whatever daft punk wants

i shouldn't hate on chilly, he seems like a cool dude from that collaborators video, and he reminds me exactly of a composer/arranger friend of mine. actually that quote seems like something my friend would say.

go ahead and hate, he's one of those dudes like sebastien tellier whose strongest musical asset seems to be his producer friends, failed at electroclash and took a hard left turn into big quotes "songcraft"

soon to be consigned to the dustbin of history along w/ RAM

ha, yes, i was thinking of mouse on mars. shudder.

― caek, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:26 (21 minutes ago) Permalink

but MoM are great

great to poop on

gonzales' only half-decent music was his plasticky electroclash nonsense (and really only half decent and i would not like to return to it to hear how much it's dated)

He did fine work on Feist's Let It Die, I think.

ugh feist gross

feist, who pretty much invented RFD: Light-hearted, whimsical indie hipster music that seemed specifically manufactured for Apple commercials ;_;

he's also worked with drake

ugh drake gross

and jamie lidell

a whole rolodex full of shit

lmao

Gonzales' presence on the album was the first sign for me tha this album was going to be a pretty laid back and 70's influenced affair given the fact that he did stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uipvovf1GNE

xp lol

Philip Sherburne Philip Sherburne ‏@PhilipSherburne 3m

So glad that a couple of dudes whose gimmick is throwing bananas and spraying champagne have weighed in on the lasting relevance of new DP.

Who does this refer to?

Donkey Kong

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs13/i/2007/048/1/2/Mario_and_Luigi___DJ_by_xkumori.png

dadalife

http://digi10ve.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dada-life.jpeg

he's also worked with drake

I've found myself surprisingly addicted to Doin' It Right. I was totally annoyed by Panda Bear when his solo came out -- but here he's a textural counterpoint to the vocoder which is a total earworm.

xp why philip (or anybody) cares what dadalife think is beyond me

haha that's what I was thinking

I had never heard of Dada Life before... Which bewilders me

i make disposable laptop music and gonzales otfm as always fu

It's probably the 8th time I am playing this album, and it still sounds so fresh, as if I am hearing it for the very first time <3

Heard someone refer to this album as the 2010's first 'New Sincerity' album. If you strip away the grandiosity of that statement, and the acts it was linked with in the 80s, I do think it hits home. Especially seeing how a lot of people reacted negatively to this album from the get go.

I do think Daft Punk are definitely not toying with irony here. RAM is Daft Punk being more pure and sincere than they have ever been.

if this is the first album that explicitly trades on sincerity that you've heard in 2013...

i mean sure i'm not disputing that it's sincere but c'mon, you think they're the only ones? or their sincerity is more pure than anyone else's?

I don't believe RAM is the first sincere album of this decade. But it certainly is DP's most sincere album, and DP are a band that brings sincerity to a huge mass, that are in turn shocked by it, repulsed almost.

wtf

"sincerity" is meaningless in this context. It's like saying Daft Punk bring "psoriasis to the masses"

The viriol and hatred in response to this album almost kind of prove that this is the most significant sincere album in a long time.

I was afraid the term itself would be the red herring, which is why I said "take the grandiosity" out of that statement. But it is not a pointless argument to make.