Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

feels kind of like he got trolled by bangalter and then this thread got trolled by him

i asked dude i work with who's way in to making music and recording software and "racking up hours in the studio" if he's listened to RAM yet and he just said "yeah..." in a tone of voice that conveyed he knew how much i loved it and he wanted to let me down easy.

i was like "oh, you're not a fan?" and he replied with: "its OK... it's just so... plain."

dude listens to run of the mill drum & bass, "chillout" EDM and indie/punk most of the time afaik

¯\_(°_o)_/¯

The stupider the criticisms of RAM, the more militant my love for it.

i like the album a lot too

i like the album ok but i refuse to accept that it sounds better than any other album just because they told ppl it does + was expensive

xposts to me he seems like good guy who sounds like a dickweed when he talks about daft punk. the ideas he's putting forth about how art & artists should function don't seem very well thought out. his comment about tone REALLY pisses me off.

Will I listen to this as much as I've listened to Homework or Discovery? No way. Is this still a pretty great album? Mmm-yeah, pretty much.

yeah he just needs to be a more careful writer. I blame tumblr

feels kind of like he got trolled by bangalter and then this thread got trolled by him

― max, Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:19 PM (1 minute ago)

i think i can agree with this

I guess trolls are more earnest than they used to be

which comment about tone

it’s similar to the way i feel when synth dudes or guitar dudes start going on about amps or tone or about how even different synthesizers that are the same model from the same year still have tiny barely perceptible differences. does anyone care about that kind of stuff?

he's totally right about the type of insanity those discussions require imo

the lack of interest most interviewers and writers seem to have in discussing hardware specifications would seem to indicate that people do not, but i could be wrong, i don’t know.

musicians care about that stuff.

I thought that was kind of strawmanny -- those discussions mostly only take place in gear magazines and the like.

like, I'm gonna be real here, and it's like I hope he really is trolling us, you know? But maybe it's also just, I don't know, a diary entry that like shouldn't, I don't know, be published in a central location for others' consumption. I mean economic realities can make music lo-fi, but lack of time and caring makes your blog post lo-fi, you know?

sheesh guys do you never read blogs or what

no. does anyone care about that kind of stuff?

ay yay yay

curtis hes not personally insulting you for being interested in gear stuff!! idk i dont even agree with him but you guys are like willfully misreading it

max are you calling us all idiots here or w/e

;-)

u_u

I'm not insulted, I just think he's full of shit abt this.

A blog seems to be a receptacle for half-formed and poorly conveyed ideas. Your readers are then supposed to hash out these ideas with you? Why not post to a message board then, where it's not all about you?

I agree that he should come down off his pyramidal bloggernaut and be a man of the people on ilm

A blog seems to be a receptacle for half-formed and poorly conveyed ideas. Your readers are then supposed to hash out these ideas with you? Why not post to a message board then, where it's not all about you?

― a very generous Cordoban (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is exactly how I feel about and relate to blogs blogs and ILX/M

i just don't know why we are supposed to consider the economic realities behind the production of a daft punk album and not kanye or taylor or all the glitzy kpop he listens to, because guyman and Thomas talked about it a bit is not a good enough reason imo

tumblr needs a flag post feature

like idk why we should treat daft punk as anything other than international pop superstars

otm

kanye and taylor swift never talked shit on laptop musicians

would james vote moon or beatle?

i just don't know why we are supposed to consider the economic realities behind the production of a daft punk album and not kanye or taylor or all the glitzy kpop he listens to, because guyman and Thomas talked about it a bit is not a good enough reason imo

― 乒乓, Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:01 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is totally a good enough reason but fuck i cant believe ive already spent this much time here *removes bookmark from thread*

sir, the only "economic reality" I see is that your tumblr sucks!

reading this as a letter to The Economist

loool

no max come back

i was just kidding

like idk why we should treat daft punk as anything other than international pop superstars

rip "daft" "punk"

Disappointing that the new The Knife album not just the sound of a knife cutting different materials

kinda does tho, in parts

i just don't know why we are supposed to consider the economic realities behind the production of a daft punk album and not kanye or taylor or all the glitzy kpop he listens to

because most of the production on a kanye record, and most mainstream rap and pop records, could have been done on a laptop/bedroom setup (and probably was).

http://www.apiaudio.com/1608.html

Just a a big laptop really

cute pic of Kanye and his macbook pro

when you said 'production on a kanye record could have been done on a laptop' I had to google it. If you had said 'kanye wears a canadian tuxedo while in the studio' I would've called bullshit right away. but here we are.

Don't open this at work
http://mypenisismadeofdogshit.bandcamp.com/album/get-satan-my-penis-is-made-of-dogshit-remix

sure there's a giant mixing board, but we're still talking about sample-based music here, for the most part. that board isn't generating those sounds, they're still coming from computers and samplers. running samples and software-generated sounds through outboard compressors and EQs is cool, but i don't think it makes as much as a difference as it does for live instruments.

a lot of times electronic music only hits that kind of gear at the mastering stage, and it doesn't necessarily make sense to do it during recording.

right, so it matters a lot for taylor swift albums and his tumblr is named after a t swift lyric