Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/BLMHoMMCUAAUiGv.jpg-large.jpeg

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/BLMXdRGCcAEbHuz.jpg-large.jpeg

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/

"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."

Just a note that if your source is Discogs, they've got more than a few errors on their listing.

what he said is true based on the liner notes

Yep. My source was the liner notes.

Interesting read:

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

― groovypanda, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 4:16 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was great. of course i didn't follow half of it, but it is great audiophile/high-end production porn and makes me want to become a recording engineer..

An SM57 on the snare? That is a pretty amazing testament for Shure.

jumping into this high-trafficed thread to say that y'all should listen to the new paramore

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/09/paramore-self-titled-cover-400x400.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramore_(album)

there's other stuff out there that's p good that's not daft punk

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Yeah, great article. I love stuff like that. That studio looks enormous!

I wish there were more albums coming out these days that were so committed to capturing a warm, natural sound.

An SM57 on the snare? That is a pretty amazing testament for Shure.

i don't think shure needs testimonials at this point, it's pretty much accepted as the industry standard snare mic, right?

Is it because if it gets hit it's cheap to replace?

I think that fancier, more sensitive microphones can also get damaged when they pick up loud signals like snare hits.

Sherburne with a good piece about Daft Punk, BOC and marketing

lol

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2013/05/detroit_gets-daft-punk.html

okay, that's funny.

I like the story of them using different mic's from different eras to record Giorgio Moroder's voice, and claiming that while most listeners wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the mics, at least THEY knew!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1565020/official-daft-punks-random-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-339000

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/entertainment-us-taylorswift-chart-idUSBRE89U03E20121031

owned

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1272523!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/adele25f-1-web.jpg

owned

http://25.media.tumblr.com/ca0a0e9288eee0455fa9f38a4cd1fa15/tumblr_mlooxer1Dz1s4cuhno1_500.gif

on layaway

SM57's are pretty magical.

Pretty solid numbers in 2013

Imagine what it sold in France

just under 200k in France

http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Daft-Punk/news-86064.html

Further, "Random Access Memories" is the first dance/electronic album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in more than a year. The last dance/electronic No. 1 was Madonna's "MDNA" -- it debuted atop the April 14, 2012 chart.