Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

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some dance music you do like doglatin?

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, I was just thinking in the shower, as you do. Why don't I like this when tracks like Sound Of The Big Babou, La Rock 01, Losing My Edge really cut it for me.

On Steve's request - here's a mix cd I did in Acid Pro.

disc 1
01 ill cosby - one of the family
02 paul hardcastle - 19
03 lcd soundsystem - losing my edge
04 lfo - lfo
05 mory kante - yeke yeke (hardfloor mix)
06 electrotheque - everyone's a winner (electrochocolate mix)
07 si futures - we are not a rock band
08 imatran voima - in-out
09 infected mushroom - bust a move
10 hennes & cold - the second trip (nick sentience mix)
11 dk - murder was the bass

disc 2
01 dk - murder was the bass
02 headroom - ride the threshold
03 thomas krome - wood carver (adam beyer mix)
04 dave the drummer - one night in hackney
05 pragha khan - injected with the poison (bk & nick sentience mix)
06 drugface - fill me with drugs (the crow mix)
07 dj tim vs lock n load - access ya mind
08 deepack - prophecy (luna mix)
09 marc smith vs safe n sound - identify the beat
10 john b - blandwagon poos
11 adam f - brand new funk
12 andy c - body rock

It's a bit eclectic and there isn't a whole lot of house on there, but that's kind of ultimate for me in the way of dance.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe I'm just not cut out for house and club music. The dance I do like would be more suited to raves and maybe the IDM scene. Still, as someone said upthread, Homework should work for me on paper as it gets rid of all the disco-diva nonsense of most commercial club music. Hmmm...

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

are you sharign that mix on slsk?

― :| (....), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

discovery clearly beats homework's ass. but dl i weep at the fact you did not attened the GREBTEST 'gig' EVER:

Cambridge Corn EXchangXor (hell yeah)
November 1997 sometime
BASSMENT JAXXXXXXoR
DAFTENPUNK

I can't believe I haven't got the DP live album.

― HKM, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

very good stuff dl, which makes it all the more baffling why you're not feeling 'homework' or 'advance'. easy on those disco divas tho, they can be pretty fab too.

i was reminiscing over 'Brand New Funk' the other day - absolute bomb at the time

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

ha Enrique, i was at the Astoria leg of that gig, and that's MY favourite gig ever

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

disco diva nonsense

it's called "house" ; )

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

nobody would say "it's just guitar playing" about a rock band.

... unless they were on ILM

― HKM, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

disco diva nonsense

This only applies to Black Box lyrics, otherwise, I don't get it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

set me free Spencer, set me free

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

When I said it was over you aimed at my heart
Won't be long for I'm leavin' all my love
But I'll feel it forever, no sound's in my life
You can call that no livin', on my own so free

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

As far as i'm concerned, except for a few places where the songs drag on a bit 'Homework' is an unnassailable classic.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi dere.

Mix ain't on slsk at present but if peeps give me an email I may be able to find the time to send you it on CD.

I think maybe my dislike for Homework and Advance might be Geirist to be very honest. I love melodies and cheeky hooks and memorable samples and stuff in most of my music (eg I love metal bands like Sigh because they experiment a lot whereas Darkthrone et al just refuse to budge from the mold). Homework and Advance are all about, well beats and maybe a bit of a squirky noise or something and it doesn't move me. Maybe I'm anti-subtlist or something heheh - although it does bother me that I'm not feeling what everyone else is.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

oh I agree, I just meant that Daft Punk should do an a completely vocodered album.

Redundant though, no? given these guys now?

― F1 F2 F3 F4, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

doglatin if you're not hearing melodies (Alive springs immediately to mind) and cheeky hooks (well, where to start...) in Homework you need help. Advance is not an album that purports to be having any sense of 'pop' to my ears with possibly the exception of 'Tied Up' which was a single and 'Shove Piggy Shove' (some melodic elements here surely) which became Bjork's 'I Go Humble'.

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link

ack i meant 'Fresh' not 'Alive' there

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

What was the "surprise" that you got with the DaftClub card? Was it a bonus track or something? My copy of "Discovery" that I bought yesterday came with the card but apparently the content is not online anymore.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Friday, 12 November 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got it a few weeks ago and I wondered about that too. I found this archived page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020610034412/www.daftclub.com/musique.php

― a banana (alanbanana), Friday, 12 November 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link

all that content is on DAFT CLUB remix album. can't argue.

― piscesboy, Friday, 12 November 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

they offered up the Alive 97 live mix on the site too - the files were in a strange format but obv. they were easily convertible to mp3.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

no question- dicovery is classic. it discovered (oh, what a pun) 80s pop to me. i am no longer afraid of disco after i had to admit i love this album, and so did my friends! its also a great soundtrack to the 5555 anime movie. it proves that daft punk are out of this world. everything they touched is classic. (with the only exception - Take Me Out remix).

― karl76 (karl76), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

In addition to everything you just said Karl, I *love* the "Take Me Out" remix. It's what remixes used to be about - massaging the track to bring out the inherent dance qualities. It's actually a "re-mix" as opposed to an entirely new song with the same vocal on top - and it's great.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Spencer completely OTM. I just love how their treatment just creeps into the song.

― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i still find it difficult to think of the 'Take Me Out' remix as anything but a disappointment considering what they're actually capable of, but as a DJ tool i guess it's useful.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, it would have been nice if they'd done a dub too! (and Steve, I know what you mean, a more complete reinterpretation would have been cool, but as it stands, it's quite a nod of reverence to FF).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

In technical terms it actually reminds me of the Stooges' '97 "remix" of Raw Power.

TS: Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" (Daft Punk remix) vs. Chemical Brothers - "Life Is Sweet" (Daft Punk remix)

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

i just want to thank whomever it was driving through chicago blaring this earlier today. "one more time" drifted up four stories, compelling me to give this a spin of the hard-drive. "digital love" came on just as my grande coffee kicked in. i totally forgot about the freezing cold puddle i stepped in on my way in today, the office manager bitching me out, career confusion, etc. etc. ... ahhh.

classic, obv.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Will there ever be a better dance record than Discovery?

― brightscreamer, Sunday, 8 April 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

rip dog latin never forget

― pretzel walrus, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes the whumping goes on for a good five minutes without actually doing anything.

― jim, Sunday, 8 April 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds like my ex in bed.

― Roz, Sunday, 8 April 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(I love Daft Punk.)

― Roz, Sunday, 8 April 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

.....

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Will there ever be a better dance record than Discovery?

Yes.

― HI DERE, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(For one, Homework.)

― HI DERE, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"Discovery" may have waned somewhat, but if you compare it to "Human After All" it may well sound like the greatest album ever made. Although that says more about "Human After All", really....

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 April 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly how has Discovery "waned somewhat"?

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 9 April 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dear god. someone stop me from posting drunk ever again. wtf was i on about up there?!

― Roz, Monday, 9 April 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

~~Will~~ Has there ever be been a better dance record than Discovery?

answer: yes

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 9 April 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Do tell. I don't know much about the genre, so it'd be interesting to see/hear your recommendations. FWIW, I don't think Homework is better.

― brightscreamer, Monday, 9 April 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link

isolee - wearemonster
mr fingers - another side

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, i meant:

mr fingers - ammnesia

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i've heard another side by fingers inc is also very good but i haven't listened

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

isolee - rest
drexciya - the quest

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

galaxy 2 galaxy - galaxy 2 galaxy

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the martian - LBH - 6251876 A Red Planet Compilation

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not really an album genre

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

just about any album by carl craig

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

how did this thread turn into 'least fun dance albums s/d'

― fies, Monday, 9 April 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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