Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

(xpost) Nice one!

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

oh this is the real deal isn't it? good stuff.

(the link for horizon. i like the country-western sounding electronic guitar part... i always liked that sound.)

Pretty but...Eno-esque is grasping at straws.

wtf? it's what I hear, dogg.

I like Air too!

if you don't hear Eno that's fine, but don't say that I'm "grasping at straws" like I'm a fucking dumbass

I hear it in some tracks, too. hence the 'yellow moon.' eno's been involved with many things. 'sounds like eno' is probably a safe thing to say about music statistically.

it sounds eno-esque because it is an ambient instrumental track that "builds" slowly toward a climax. that's enough to be eno-esque.

or as i say Enosyian

enwegian

brianishtic

Oy. Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry, crüt. Will bow out of thread...

sounding like eno is probably easier than sounding like John Bonham. aren't there a bunch of quotes from crusty studio engineers complaining that teenagers walk into their holy studio and ask for a Bonham drumsound. and the crusty studio engineer inserts a dramatic pause before saying something like "you'd better go dig up john bonham then." but brian eno plays synthesizers a lot, you see, and synthesizers can be setup to sound the same, independent of the operator.

Can someone point me to what all these writers are referring to when they call RAM "a disappointment to many fans" before they proceed to say glowing things about it? I've now read this three or four times and have yet to see someone actually disappointed.

Are there "Boo To RAM" chat rooms lex moderates that I'm unaware of?

Try their Lastfm page, plenty of people on there are disappointed.

Or here's a negative review I found via the Hype Machine:
http://www.nerdyframes.org/?p=43474

Ok, Horizon is absolutely gorgeous. Someone get a post-rock/Hydrahead band to cover it ASAP.

Try their Lastfm page, plenty of people on there are disappointed.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:24 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but let's be honest if a critic thought that was a good angle to take ("fans disappointed by new daft punk album") they would do so even if the evidence was a single tweet.

I just accidentally called my local record store while trying to look up their hours during a meeting and bought the last copy of this to avoid saying "I accidentally called you"

if you don't hear Eno that's fine, but don't say that I'm "grasping at straws" like I'm a fucking dumbass

― ḉrut (crüt), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:55 (1 hour ago) Permalink

not laughing at you crut, but I like this as the new board description.

wait you bought a record over the phone in the middle of a meeting? like maybe there was a powerpoint happening, and you're like "uh, excuse me, do you have any copies of the new daft punk left?"

Thought yelp would just give me the number, not call it immediately. Realized it was calling. Excused myself from meeting. Pretended someone had called me. Bought record bc I didn't know what else to say to the nice lady at the record store

"Horizon" snippet is totally gorgeous.

Oy. Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry, crüt. Will bow out of thread...

― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no don't go! I've been kind of on edge lately. sorry for lashing out.