Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

First album in years that I can say has been "glued to the turntable" all week; I'm not much of a vinyl buyer. Agree 100% that it's sequenced with four sides in mind; Side 3 is my favourite. First in-car play this evening; FUCK it works as driving music.

decent chiptune mashup medley imo considering the album's three days old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjw595chVgQ#!

"decent chiptune mashup medley"

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yeah, "game of love" shouldn't even be on the album. and certainly not at the second position !

I switched "Game" and "Georgio" in the sequencing and I thinks it works much better !

That was impressive! I can actually see some of this mashups actually working on a live DP set.

def not your father's chiptune mashup medley

don't have the vinyl yet, but the FLAC sounds amazing played even kinda-loudly

troo, but i went to the big city today and bought a vinyl copy to have for my own. cost only $26 on sale, which is p standard for a deluxe 2LP package these days. same money as for what you get shaking the habitual and kurt vile's wakin on a sunny daze. haven't spun it yet cuz i just got home and fixed dinner, plus i been soaking in these memories for a week already. still psyched tho!

considering it's the only truly important album we'll see in the 21st century, i'm surprised the presentation isn't a bit more elaborate tbh. like it should have come encased in a playable lucite synthesizer. i'd have paid at least 40 bucks for that.

considering it's the only truly important album we'll see in the 21st century,

wat

;)

a better writer than i might have something interesting to say about the critical/generational embrace of RAM in relation to the similar success of kanye's MBDTF. both hugely ambitious albums, arguably ghastly in their unreserved excess, thus potentially offensive to notions of good taste rooted in a "carefully curated" & stylish reserve.

basically ripping SFJ, i guess: new maximalism & the death of discernment, blah blah blah

RAM is pretty focused, for all its guest stars, imo

playing RAM repeatedly in my stereo and my dad's like, "get outta here with that weird ass daft punk shit. listen to good artists like taylor swift."

xxp no-one is reupholstering anyone's pussy on this Daft Punk album, is the key

Like, Kanye's excess is his ego running rampant and talking about fucking pornstars up the ass, and Daft Punk's is getting the dudes off Thriller for a rhythm section and, well, Touch.

and things like 'Kanye takes a piano lesson' which forms the basis of runaway

Only just noticed all the gurgling water effects on "Motherboard".

i like that track, sounds like the third kraftwerk album

re: "scratching" on Giorgio - i'm pretty sure that's noise from an analog synth through a gate triggered by the drumtrack (with the gate being opened wider around the 8:00 mark) </nerd> very clever, don't remember hearing that on many records

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Yeah, I thought it was something being triggered by the gating of the drums, but on the first couple of listens it sounded too 'sympathetic' to the shape of the rhythm to be something that could be achieved live. Having listened to it a few more times it's now obvious it's an analogue synth, not scratching. And in addition to the gating trigger effect (which, as you say, you can hear being opened towards the end of the track), I think they're using the amplitude of the drum track to bend the pitch/timbre of the synth - hence the sympathy.

...and probably won't either because you can't do it on your bloody laptop can you

I would have thought you could replicate the effects using software, why not? Maybe not with something off the shelf, but it's having the imagination to do something like this in the first place that's the hard bit.

Right, I'm going to take a long hard look at myself in the mirror.

That's all certainly doable in any DAW.

yeah, i don't doubt that it couldn't be replicated - i guess what i meant was that an idea like that would be more likely to come to someone who's actually worked with hardware... so basically what you said about imagination i guess

Point taken.

it reminds me of the distorted 'scratch' sound on 'Believe' by GusGus

it's the same synth used in Rollin' and Scratchin'.

laying RAM repeatedly in my stereo and my dad's like, "get outta here with that weird ass daft punk shit. listen to good artists like taylor swift."

I'd love to meet your dad!

he posts as "lex pretend"

^^ proper laugh out loud ...

awesome

yeah, i don't doubt that it couldn't be replicated - i guess what i meant was that an idea like that would be more likely to come to someone who's actually worked with hardware... so basically what you said about imagination i guess

― random brainwave, Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do similar chaining (tho not that exact effect) in software all the time. The software/hardware thing isn't really relevant to that at all.

I'd love to meet your dad!

You should meet my mum, who claims sincerely that more young people should aspire to be like Snoop Dogg, "a nice, sensible young man".

yes, she has heard Doggystyle.

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yeah, "game of love" shouldn't even be on the album. and certainly not at the second position !
I switched "Game" and "Georgio" in the sequencing and I thinks it works much better !

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, May 24, 2013 3:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I did this in garageband to see how it would sound, it kinda works I think

http://www.mediafire.com/?7q723quscv8r1jk

just heard get lucky playing over the PA at the hawks/wings game as they were going to commercial

I heard edgar winter band's "frankenstein" (full album length cut) yesterday driving home from school

edgar winter group, sorry.

I heard Dirty Vegas on a jukebox tonight. remember Dirty Vegas?

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/50895/48b0d17b.jpeg

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http://pitchfork.com/news/50895-daft-punk-showed-up-at-the-monaco-grand-prix-for-their-racecars-debut/

I love how they 'infiltrate' in real life situations and it all seems... perfectly normal <3

I heard Hot Butter's "Popcorn" the other day.

"both hugely ambitious albums, arguably ghastly in their unreserved excess"

i don't get the hugely ambitious part or the unreserved excess part. about daft punk anyway. you couldn't pay me to listen to the kanye album. well, wait, that's not true....i can totally be bought.

The only song on the album that I think fits the description of unreserved excess would be Touch.

Useless factoid that I noticed while looking through the album credits:
Most of the front half of the album features drums by John JR Robinson and bass by Nathan East, whereas the back half mostly features Omar Hakim on drums and James Genus on bass.

Also this guy plays this instrument on Motherboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt4iKdRPxA

whoa, i want one of those

I haven't seen this mentioned earlier in the thread but has anybody else noticed the vinyl version of RAM playing a little faster (and pitched a tiny bit higher) than the digital versions? My first inclination would be that my record player (which is not that great) is just not that accurate in terms of speed, but I haven't noticed this speed issue in any of my other albums.

i heard "Get Lucky" on a very, very large sound system last night and the second half of it, the funky half, was very very very good; i think the anti-compression proselytizers have a good piece of evidence with this record

I listened to the album on headphones today and I'm pretty sure I heard a bum note on the Chilly segue part. Not off-key just like a flub.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvFwL2h5YlY

We caught a glimpse of the robots on the F1 TV feed I was watching in Oviedo, northern Spain yesterday and it made my day. Everyone cheered! The tapas & wine was immeasurably better. The Monaco GP is where these wonderful pop stars should be seen. I hadn't heard the album for a good 2-3 days at that time. Listening again, man this really is magnificent.

I listened to the album on headphones today and I'm pretty sure I heard a bum note on the Chilly segue part. Not off-key just like a flub.

There's a staccato'd note and a few other rhythmically off-kilter lines. Wouldn't be suprised if they took the flawed and human take intentionally.

I have to admit, I wasn't bowled over by this album at first, but it's been growing on me a fair amount with subsequent listens.

Interesting read:

http://www.sonicscoop.com/2013/05/27/icons-mick-guzauski-on-engineering-and-mixing-daft-punks-random-access-memories/