Daft Punk - Human After All

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good track though!

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

skepticism is right. this isn't DP

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

ah, but WHO is it

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Holy shit, Alter Ego have released new material??! This makes me much happier than a new Daft Punk album! "Decoding the Hacker Myth" is, despite the stupid title, one of my favourite LPs of the nineties.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Rocker" by Alter Ego was probably the most played record of 2004, in clubs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Have they gone all clubby then? The last time I heard of them they were making contemplative electro-trance...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 January 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes it's like a rock song done entirely electronically. I was not a total convert but it was absolutely everywhere in 04. For a time it was good!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to give it a listen once I get somewhere I can download that track. I never would've imagined they'd make a comeback, it's been, what, eight years since their last LP?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I think they've always been around, though I'm not certain.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

According to AMG, between 1996 and 2004 they've released a couple of singles and an EP, but nothing else. Didn't they have some alter egos (hahaha) though, maybe they were hiding behind them?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the problem with "Rocker" is partly the way that people react to it... the sudden switches in the track, and the way that everyone waits for the synth hook, makes it feel a bit like a singalong rock song where the audience knows the chorus and gears themselves up for it (think "Why Does It Always Rain On Me"). Which is not to say that other big dance tracks don't do this too, but the progression feels less organic in "Rocker" (perhaps owing to its rock song structure). People don't seem interested in dancing to the groove so much as demonstrating their awareness of the track and enjoyment of it - it's one of those hands-in-the-air anthems where you put yr hands in the air partly because it seems like "the thing to do".

The distinction with eg. "Drop The Pressure" is that because everything is anchored on that looped bouncy synth hook the whole thing feels more unified, and like the audience is enjoying it as a dance track.

I still like "Rocker" BTW, but I think it's particularly susceptible to becoming irritating through over-familiarity for those reasons.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Who is that yousendit track by?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

sounds like galleon

― :| (....), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.man-and-man.com/lre/daft_robot_rock.MPG

― injektilo*, Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Gosh.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That is such a funny way to hear a new tune!

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh jeez, they've become such U.S.E. wannabes...

*dodges rocks*

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah! Droney like "Fresh", funky like Discovery. I like.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh jeez, they've become such U.S.E. wannabes...

i realize i'm in the minority here, but i really hope this isn't true.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Pretty cool tune. It would be great if Daft Punk toured w/Justus Kohncke, and I had to kneel in submission to a plastic dance-rock revolution. That probably won't happen, but it's fun to think about.

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 17 January 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

if this track sounds this good from a distance-mike recording of a PA, it's going to sound amazing on CD.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm with ya mark

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 January 2005 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i KNEW i'd heard that guitar sample from the new daft punk track somewhere. check murs & 9th wonder's "intro"!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh this song is awesome. I don't hear any USE-ness really.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

(um guys, I was being facetious)

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link

yes but your joke made us THINK!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

think awful things.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

united hate of funtronica

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

what the...

Is that an mpg from a club or something? i am so not understanding...

― piscesboy, Monday, 17 January 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh it's from a club where someone had a promo i guess. it's a little frustrating (that it doesn't do more) but still infectious (in what it does do, and clearly works best LOUD).

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i KNEW i'd heard that guitar sample from the new daft punk track somewhere. check murs & 9th wonder's "intro"!

Good call! Any idea what the source sample is?

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 January 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

May as well be Ulysses 31 - GOOD THING. Sorta Ulysses/Cornelius - 'Drop' + 'Another View Point'/Discovery. That shit is absolutely fantastic and hearing that makes me actually anticipate my b-day.

― March 21 is B4RIM4 DAY, FOOLS (Barima), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in an immense pickle over whether to totally save it until it comes out (probably more satisfying in the long run), or cling onto every new little bit of whatever that's leaked (bit of instant grat)!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

what's 'U.S.E.'

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"united states of electronica"

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh. it sounds (maybe it's the mic and the crowd noise) like it should be the imagined futuristic dance music from the club scene in "Space Mutiny" starring John Phillip Law and, uh, Reb Brown. yes!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

is that really them?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to listen again, cos on first listen that sounded fairly boring.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

and I really really have faith for this album as being the one that keeps the youth part of me which liked album-dance alive.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

it sounds like Daft Punk doing a cover version of Rage Against The Machine. fucking shit!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

this is tragic, I am trying so hard to like it

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe it's not them! don't panic yet!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope it's not them! But it sounds like them enough to be them!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

GUITARS.. OMG!

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, did the total guitar-cum-synth wank solos on "Aerodynamic" and "Digital Love" just pass over you? Or are you just not into rhythm guitar stabs?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

thousands of dance records have guitars in them. there is nothing to this except the guitar, it actually does sound like WWF intro music.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

And the problem here is....?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

(i really like the track, and want to acquire this.. whether it's Daft Punk or not.)

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I am willing to wait to hear a proper version cos I would expect the drums to be a bit more interesting in that.

This sounds like something off that fucking Prodigy album. The only saving grace is a distant reminder and faraway scent of Daft Punk on the breeze.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

And the problem here is...?

THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE TRUE GUITARIST OF OUR TIME ON THIS ALBUM

http://www.marcweb.de/yngwie.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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