Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

xxxxp Yeah, I haven't felt so pleasantly surprised by a new records twists and turns - the way Giorgio by Moroder unfolds, Touch, the acceleration of Contact,the utter pleasure of hearing Nile Rogers playing guitar - like that in a while. For real, my biggest giggle was the honky tonk bit in Touch. It sounds amazing!

That said, I'm not wowed by sad coke robot ballads.

wtf have u heard the album

― flopson, Monday, May 20, 2013 9:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Boom, fair point. "Sounds like" was the wrong thing to say. What I meant was, I don't think you could confuse any track on this for something from 30 years ago. The album could only have been made now. The philosophy behind making the album, on the other hand, feels like an intentional throwback.

i don't get that. it doesn't sound like any music made in the last 20 years, and it uses mostly if not all technology available in the 70's... what would have been so hard about making it in the early 80's or whenever

Maybe it's hindsight - what record cut in the early 80's would have Giorgio Moroder talking about his life? That's very much a statement of intent, imo. The only thing that I can think of is Vincent Price on Thriller as some kind of parallel, but an incredibly loose one.

what record cut in the early 80's would have Giorgio Moroder talking about his life?

ok well that's a pretty trivial definition!

also if anything the "intent" of that statement is: we're going to make a retro disco record

"This record raises a radical question: Does good music need to be good?"

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/129730596/2630509441_944a6ee3e2_m.jpg

xp No retro disco record has that kind of nuttery on it, but I believe them when they say 'we don't like modern dance' because the sheer balls of making the third track of your big comeback Giorgio Moroder talking about sleeping in his car in 1969 just seems like a massive reaction. It may be trivial/without precedent, but it's what they've done and how they've talked about this record?

It's entirely possible I'm mixing up a few ideas about this record due to a few beers/having read so many fucking thinkpieces about how it's going to change modern dance before it's actually been officially released.

My initial reaction is that it's really great except for too much sobbing on your yacht surrounded by female androids at 5am, and that Panda Bear can fuck off tbh.

and that Nile Rogers is OTM

sad robot backlash in effect

me, i love a sad robot. can it be any sadder? i'm asking that.

The Game Of Love (Beach Boys connection there?) just utterly destroys the flow that Give Life Back To Music starts, but it's really great by itself. I just find them weaker? The fact they only have one verse each is a bit of a downer. Maybe I am not so far removed from people expecting Human After All Volume 2? #valuablenewposters

when the horns come in on touch, feels like pet shop boys

I wonder if they tried recording any of the robot vox songs with human vox first. or vice versa.

"fragments of time (feat. IBM's watson)"

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so at the end of Moroder's DJ set at Output tonight after 'I Feel Love', dude stops and just starts talking to the crowd for about five minutes to "recreate" the talky part of the daft punk track and the crowd alternates between confused murmurs, occasional shouts of SHUT UP AND PLAY THE RECORDS and hissing "SHHHHHH"s. Eventually he finally says "So my name is Giorgio... I mean, my name is GIOVANNI Georgio..." and then they played the song. Kind of a weak ending to an otherwise utterly epic time.

...the song "Beyond" sounds like is M. McD "I keep forgettin'" so I was singing "Regulators" over it

― The Reverend, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:24 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Getting better with more plays for me, and I liked it to begin with.

"Beyond" is the latest one I'm really into - brilliant song.

http://www.youtube.com/v/TBXv37PFcAQ&fs=1&hl=en

Lose Yourself To Dance is one of the greatest things I've ever heard. Losing it bigtime to this video this morning. No wonder Nile was grinning so when they played him it over the headphones.

Can I posit another idea why people are going nuts over this album is that it's so pleasurable on the ears...they've understood the concept of compression...that music has become noise with no dynamics just peaks...they've got an old school engineer who knows his shit and whilst I realise that that this has been chopped and processed to the nth degree you can play it loudly with no pain (can't speak for the neighbours)...in fact I swear out the corner of my eye I saw my speakers orgasmically turning to jelly, the bass bins were actually moving...I listened to that Beyonce track after and had to turn it off cos it sounded like a millions kids screaming in pain...and that's not nice...

it really is nice to listen to, i noticed this a lot more since it hit spotify and i can bring it around with me.

Lose Yourself To Dance is one of the greatest things I've ever heard

i like the song but i think the vocal melody is undernourished and the lyrics are just kind of bad. i don't mean "stupid," i don't care if they are simple, it's just that they don't sing myself except the title phrase. "wipe of all the sweat"? "this often"? i dunno.

haha "don't sing myself" should be simply "don't sing"

Really? 'sweat ... Sweat ... SWEAT', 'c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon', 'guitar!' and the whole descending falsetto, it's like I've known them forever

it is just seems like a demo vocal is what i'm saying is

What do people think of this? I picked it up for $1 in Brooklyn about 10 years ago. It's from a French group on a French record label. It's about a computer who's sad. The name of the song is "Nobody Loves a Computer Because a Computer Does Not Dance".

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

French - check
Live instruments - check
Lush arrangement - check
Soft rock boogie vibes - check
Disco pathos - check
Computer voice - check

"My emergency circuits ask me to disconnect.. To disconnect! To disconnect is.... to die!! I. L. O. V. E. LOVE Y. O. U. OH WHY? To DISCONNECT! I DON'T WANNA DIE!"

Written-By -- G. Sals*, J.F. Porry* 14:30

J.F. apparently an Algerian Sephardic Jew who now produces television in France

So this doesn't come up under DP albums under the American Spotify -- but if you search for the songs individually they do come up and the album is there. Weird.

http://open.spotify.com/album/4m2880jivSbbyEGAKfITCa

ignore everything i said about this album (apart from the old man talking bit), it's superb

oh, and i think it works as an album, although it's perhaps a bit long (yes daft punk i know)

Japanese Bonus Track (called Horizon I think) should be hitting the web sometime today.

Snippet here:

http://www.neowing.co.jp/track_for_cdj.html?KEY=SICP-3817

I love that computer 12 inch. I wrote about it somewhere years ago. a big fave of mine in the 90's when all I wanted to hear was stuff like that.

for me the record dips a bit near the end, maybe just in terms of the sequencing becoming a bit more erratic. after "touch" i never want to hear "get lucky" and the flow of the last few tracks kind of loses momentum even if some of those tracks are good. the first seven tunes all go together really well though - i even like the casablancas one now.

yeah, touch -> get lucky is a bit jarring

the lyrics to beyond are amazing. in the last few days it's really hit me how good it is, just brilliant understated pop. it reminds you how amazing "something about us" was as an idea that wasn't really in sync with the rest of discovery.

first time i heard "Beyond" i thought "yeah the man can still write"

love the transition from "Touch" to "Get Lucky" tho

What I don't get is that in some of the interviews they've said that Guy Man is sort of quality control and sits back giving opinions, but I still reckon this record is really like the Sebastian Tellier album that he produced. Did Thomas actually work on that too, and they didn't reveal this so as not to drown it in hype? Or is Guy Man responsible for the quieter side of what they do?

so at the end of Moroder's DJ set at Output tonight after 'I Feel Love', dude stops and just starts talking to the crowd for about five minutes to "recreate" the talky part of the daft punk track and the crowd alternates between confused murmurs, occasional shouts of SHUT UP AND PLAY THE RECORDS and hissing "SHHHHHH"s. Eventually he finally says "So my name is Giorgio... I mean, my name is GIOVANNI Georgio..." and then they played the song. Kind of a weak ending to an otherwise utterly epic time.

― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:31 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so depressing

So that Sherbs sample is pretty much the entirety of the Contact intro.

http://open.spotify.com/track/7vasLeZP0d9DKqhHCUvjIc

so at the end of Moroder's DJ set at Output tonight after 'I Feel Love', dude stops and just starts talking to the crowd for about five minutes to "recreate" the talky part of the daft punk track and the crowd alternates between confused murmurs, occasional shouts of SHUT UP AND PLAY THE RECORDS and hissing "SHHHHHH"s. Eventually he finally says "So my name is Giorgio... I mean, my name is GIOVANNI Georgio..." and then they played the song. Kind of a weak ending to an otherwise utterly epic time.

Sounds like a terrible crowd!

yeah that sounds awful but seriously who the fuck shouts at giorgio moroder to shut up?

Welcome to 2013. People pay to "hear" a dj and they expect their money's worth, dammit! "Who is this dickhead up there talking?"

see also: Jeff Mills bottle throwing incident.

I like the way in Giorgio he's like "becoming a musician was almost impossible because the dream was so big" but then he became a musician and knew that was the moment he had a real chance of becoming a musician.

"fuck, now that I'm a musician this whole being a musician dream could one day happen for me."