Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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."

yeah, the narrative it tells is really kind of lame and elliptical when you step back. it'd be hilarious, though, if the track was 25 minutes long and he really got into the nitty-gritty of what synthesizers were used on different key productions, how they programmed the drums, stuff like that. "oh, and on this song, we added a slight pitch shift to donna's vocals on the pre-chorus. i think that was effective. and we did use some live drums, what was that guy's name?" as the click track rolls merrily along...

haha the track could be a 30 minute shaggy dog story

y'all know what he means though. his dreams were so big he couldn't see how to begin, he couldn't see the wood for the trees. but once he'd made the first step the path became clearer.

the path through the wood of course.

Tbf, it was embarrassing for all involved. Moroder's rambling recollection was being taped by red bull for future commodification and the anecdote was just how donna summer was alone with giorgio when she recorded hot stuff. Dude was wearing a button up shirt with lapels and looked and sounded like your italian gpa.
Again though: the set was SUPER EPIC and totally worth it, just a retrospective of the moroderverse with every big hit booming in your chest

Title of the album would make more sense if Moroder was recounting various stories about his early use of MS Access to make shitty databases

you have to love how he pronounces "synthesizer"

although that's one of the weaker tracks i start really getting into it when the drums start to go all apeshit around 6:30

drums + scratching, etc.

which track has scratching on this again?

i like to think that somewhere in the reported 5 hours of interviews bangalter did with moroder, he told the tale of a day a curious fan emailed him....

Production of "I feel love" by Summer/Moroder

"Dear Mr. Tilman
this is the only way i can help you

saluti
Giorgio Moroder"

http://www.thing.de/tilman/i%20feel%20love.jpg

i'm going to write a novel that starts with that letter/graphic

haha that's so awesome, love this from that thread -

Love Saves the Day has a part where they talk with Moroder about this. He gives an anecdote that Donna Summer was dancing to it in a club, probably next to a speaker that was carrying the right channel, and came back to Moroder saying "You know, something is wrong with this recording!" Moroder told her "I know what's wrong." "[the record] did well all the same."
― grady

you have to love how he pronounces "synthesizer"

otm. and the way he says "at that time in germany, they had already discotheques."

Oh man, that is so great xxp

http://youtu.be/fSdHsE-4XUs?t=1m25s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=INPigOE_4BY
um.

I'll take one .gif of :22 - :25 please.

my god, that crowd

I'll take one .gif of :22 - :25 please.

You sick fuck.

the visual power of those three seconds is pretty undeniable

If you make it to the end of that (and bless your soul if you did), you are treated to the accountant looking banjo player doing background vox, with the mandolin "player" (never seems to be playing it much afaict) doing that hand to the ear thing...

3.18 to 3.47

Guy-Man gets relatively chatty here: http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/05/21/daft-punk-shares-their-soundtrack-of-my-life-hear-the-playlist-here/

daft punk mostly otm except for "hotel california" on the jukebox which is my least favorite human tendency

Horizon is here!

argh

Horizon is here!

Uhm, that's just a live version of "Give Life Back To Music".

Yeah but still mind blowing no?

I know this record is good because it costs $35-40

http://nobpm.tumblr.com/post/50990752528/daft-punk-horizon-japan-bonus-track real talk though this is beautiful

Eno-esque

sounds similar to the music in the background of the beginning of giorgio

that track is for all the Kitaro fans out there. very soundtrack-y. makes me think i should listen to the Tron soundtrack. kinda figure Tron isn't gonna be some Tangerine Dream masterpiece or reach the heights of Keith Emerson's Nighthawks soundtrack, but i'll give it a shot.

Tron soundtrack in many ways a much bigger let down than this album, but it's been a while. (Better than the Tron movie, though!)

okay i lasted for about 5 minutes of Tron and then went and listened to something that i've already listened to a zillion times. i'm such a rockhead. but hey i got the spirit of 1976 alive within me. and 1976 is still alive and well. it's fresh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSMh8hR51Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcJUe9NBwkw

dig the horizon vibe though. would listen to an album of that. i kinda do already with old stuff like that but i'm all for new stuff like that.

Tron soundtrack = too much orchestra not enough synth

"drezzed" is the most daft punky on the tron score, right?

hope hollywood lets alex moulton score a film soon :-[

dig the horizon vibe though. would listen to an album of that. i kinda do already with old stuff like that but i'm all for new stuff like that.

like what kind of thing? i like stuff like this but prob the more obvious end of the scale.

love the neville brothers 'yellow moon' synth at 1:26 of 'the game of love'

I'd laugh my arse off if the new Boards Of Canada sounded like Skrillex..."but we thought it was what the kids wanted"...

thanks thread for introducing me to "yellow moon"

If this was Air - and it sounds like it could've been off any of the first 4 Air albums - no one would care. Pretty but...Eno-esque is grasping at straws.

pro tip - i'm not sure anybody outside of the US gives a flying one about Skrillex

if your auntie had a penis she'd be your uncle xpost

fwiw I always read 'Skrillex' as 'Sir Alex', and it gets me slightly annoyed