Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

i keep going back to "Fragments of Time"

C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON

this is the point where I formally retract my "they aren't megafamous" argument because they clearly are, now

clearly were already. stand down.

Mixing vocoders and actual vocals is such an effective trick, but I can't really think of it having been done before.

I assume you mean both layered on top of each other.

points deducted for not using the right number of C'MONs in the phrase, LBI.

Merde, Merdeyeuz ;-)

Ωe're up all n▒ght t♪ ge♠ Ł♫♡☀☺

hey i like lil' daft punk! never heard this single. like the new wave track too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl3HQLFESA

15 on billboard, rubbing elbows with drake and fall out boy

It's been in the top 20, but no higher than #14, for the past month. I'll be very curious to see how it does next week, though. Not only will it benefit from digital sales of the album, it was apparently only *officially* released to radio this week.

#10 this week

Listening way too much to RAM the past week, it also made me revisit (yet again) Homework and Discovery. I love how a new album can put previous albums in a new light; in that a new album blows you away, redefines the current status of the band, yet also lengthens a bands career. With every new album the history of the band and their music becomes more defined, somehow. The career and discography as an always unfinished but ever redefined work.

Having said that: Discovery will never be topped, for me, I am fairly certain of that. We've probably done a poll on what's the best DP album before?

it was apparently only *officially* released to radio this week.

this explains why the version I kept hearing on the radio sounded like a 128kbps mp3!!!

Maybe the new album, which I adore, makes me want to shout out even more that 'Digital Love' is probably still the best pop song ever written.

Amongst all the other hundreds of best ever pop songs, but y'know

It seemed conceptually on-point to buy this on vinyl, so I did. It somehow makes sense as a four-sided piece, with "Lose Yourself To Dance" at the end of Side 2 feeling pivotal, as a lead-in to the rebirth that takes place on Side 3.

It's pressed very quietly, though. I almost had to double the usual volume setting.

"We’re working on some mixes ourselves,” Thomas Bangalter says. "So, yes, there will probably be Daft Punk mixes of Daft Punk. Usually, we never mix ourselves, that’s something we feel we’re interested in doing this time."

^_^

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BK73Wf0CQAAeeHj.jpg:medium

what the

weird

Colombia sponsors Lotus apparently.

that's awesome

never encountered the word "nerdgasm" before reading this:

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/should-we-expect-a-daft-punk-themed-lotus-this-weekend-509382531

Me neither

Nerdgasm, about 722,000 results (0.18 seconds)

come on, for real? how is that possible? look where you are.

I'm with Scott there.

never encountered the word "nerdgasm" before reading this:

I am envying Grady rn.

real or not, i envy the ignorance of which you were just robbed, drunkboat

+ gr80

lol xp

Random trivia--
Bob Lefsetz talking about a Nile Rodgers presentation at a music conference in Ibiza:

After Daft Punk got "Get Lucky" they'd have everybody redo their parts, individually. And then they'd send the result to the next person in the chain. Nathan East heard Nile's new work and then he had to recut his bass part, he had to raise his game to complement Nile and the other players.

I don't really follow that. After Daft Punk "got" Get Lucky?

Rolling Stone feature is very illuminating. Thomas says that the second and last time he took E was the day Kurt Cobain died - coincidentally of course.

The bass part is fine, but I'd really love to hear what Nard would've done with it.

Thomas says that the second and last time he took E was the day Kurt Cobain died - coincidentally of course.

...or is it?

the bass in "Get Lucky" is unreal

The bass part is fine, but I'd really love to hear what Nard would've done with it.

I've been purposely avoiding reading any hype about this album until I got a chance to really sit down with it, so I've been basically ignoring this thread and you'll have to forgive me for being relatively late to the game. But, damn, this thing is fantastic. I don't even hate the Panda Bear part. Skimming through the thread I see so many otm posts, especially like those who noted the Steely Dan vibe and the Tortoise on "Motherboard" - I was definitely feeling that to. I love how I keep returning to so many different things that I can't get enough of. Today I'm all about "Fragments of Time", I love that these guys were able to so seamlessly incorporate a little "twang" (for lack of a better term in my overworked brain this morning) with the steel guitar.

the nile licks on "give life back to music" get better with each play.

like i can't listen to it and not tap my foot.

def my favorite track

I don't really follow that. After Daft Punk "got" Get Lucky?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:14 PM

Lefsetz just must mean the initial arrangement

also the keyboard melody that drifts in in the second verse of giorgio is amazing, just after "in the beginning". really subtle italo melody just behind the groove.

xp yeah, there was some other interview were Nile said he played them a bunch of stuff and they went away to fiddle with it, so I figure they came up with rough cuts based on those recordings and circulated it around a few times to bring everything properly together.

why does Moroder say his name Giovanni Giorgio, when I think his birthname is Hansjorg?

Giovanni is the Italian cognate of Johannes (Hans) and Giorgio is the cognate of Jorg.

makes sense, thanks

Jean-Georges en Francais.

StanM: no runout groove messages. No numbers or sig even. Just grooves. ;_;