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...a NIGHTMARE

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

it was a nice dream. all was well with the world. all wrongs were righted. and thee was no more daft punk.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, I see, go out at the top, that's what you're saying?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

er, no.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

there was some ep i downloaded offa soulseek a little while ago, "on da dancefloor," anyone know if this is legit?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

also boo to the haters

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently it's not them slutsky, it's not too shabby tho

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i was a little suspicious! but yeah it's not bad, which version is your fave?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone ever get their wonderful toys?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread is f*cked up.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk love is the thing about ILM i that baffles me most.
-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), August 16th, 2004.

you don't like fun?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I love me da Daft Punk, it's the Basement Jaxx I don't get = /

Not even something like "Red Alert"??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

it amazes me how little of ilm is rabid psychotic daft punk fanism.

(a) patrick alavi of work it baby records releases records online and labels them daft punk. some are ok, none are legit.

(b) bangalter fucked up his ears hence the delay.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU TELL EM!!!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sick of this 'hater' bullshit.

I think they make boring music, and I think I'm entitled to say so on this forum. Do I have to like every single band in every single genre that ever existed to not be a 'hater'?

I don't give a fuck if you don't like the music I like; I'm not going to say "OMG haters!" if you say Coil or the Fall suck on one of the threads dealing with those groups.

P.S. Bassmet Jaxx suck as well. *Especially* something like 'Red Alert'.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

It's just the rules. You have to like Daft Punk. We say so.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Do not feed the haters.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Roxy?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I, can I say something to you just this once?!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I think they make boring music, and I think I'm entitled to say so on this forum.

haha we think you're a boring hater, and we think we're entitled to say so on this forum.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

it's in the faq that if you don't like daft punk you....eh.......I better not say.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, you're right.

Can I hate on Daft Punk on ILX?

Here on ILX, only Lil Jon is more unassailable than Daft Punk and all haters who attempt to board will be repelled. A second offense will result in computer viruses sent to your IP address. Embrace the digital love or leave.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we should add Basement Jaxx and late 90s timbaland.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Other than the Daft Punk and the Basement Jaxx thing, it is kind of nice round here. Has ILX decided that the last DP album was actually any good in some kind of mass oversight?

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link

what are you saying

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

That it sucked.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't get it

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

it's over-rated, I like it more than ever tho. Basement Jaxx are my favourite thing of all time.

In answer to Barima's question, no no figurines yet :(

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

daft punk >> basement jaxx > drugs, food, bumping uglies, etc

the proof is in comparing the singles tracks and essential mixes and ignoring album vs album matchups.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

no i think Basement Jaxx have better single tracks and essential mixes too

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

heh, well OK, not entirely - several tracks on Homework I might prefer to anything by Jaxx (Da Funk, Fresh, Burnin', Alive)...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link

really?? hm. i thought the daft punk EM was like the holy grail of french/chicago house. it's the one disc (two discs, actually!) that's consistenly been in my CD wallet since i got it (well over a year, i think). maybe it's a, uh, london thing or something.

xpost - hey exactly, don't forget "around the world" and "one more time"

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh i love those DP EMs but the Jaxx ones I've listened to just as much. I'd call it a high-scoring draw.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd love to be able to forget the annoying vocodered vocals on 'one more time' i really would. same goes for the awful vocodered vocals on one of basement jaxx's singles too. i'm sure in time i will. quite simply two of the most overated acts in recent times. still, i'd rather listen to both of them than oasis or manic street bloody preachers.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

outside ilx they are hardly 'overrated' at all. 'discovery' was generally hated on for its alleged retro irony. the jaxx have never really broken through either, especially not the current album.

― ENRQ, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

broken through what exactly? these two acts have merged the art of electronic dance music with pop fun better and more imaginatively than anyone else ever did or probably will.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah that's why "one more time" and "around the world" are still reliably killing dancefloors in house/techno-shy california.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway when something is both annoying and unforgettable it usually means the problem is you. like when you can't get that girl "you can't stand" out of your head. just give in and feel the love, dude.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah they're two of my faves too, i mean 'broken through' as in become 'two of the most overated acts in recent times', which they blatantly have not.

― ENRQ, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

why do i like DP so much, but find everything Jaxx have ever done so lame?

i watched the DP movie last night (5555). it was... funny.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the film is excellent - it worked brilliantly both at my local cinema and on my DVD player. Concept-album-tastic.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i wasn't completely sure that interstella 'worked', but it was worth it just to go to a cinema full of people and listen to one of my favourite records with them (and i've found short circuit considerably more affecting since hearing in the context of the movie).

there was a time when i was a corny fuck of the indie persuasion that i didn't like red alert (i only bought remedy last year actually), but now i find it unthinkable for anybody to question it's utter goodness (and i feel much the same about just about everything else they've done too). (ps. at the time "romeo" tho was a key moment in my then-burgeoning poptimism).

i don't really want to have to imagine "one more time" without vocoders.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i think my jaxx antipathy stems from Red Alert. it's rubbish, really it is, and I mentally grouped it in with lots of other stuff that came out at the time, what i saw as half-hearted sample-based funk/disco stuff - i'm thinking Modjo Lady (was that the same time?). obv they picked up with Romeo (i'd give it 8 out of 10) and Where's Your Head at is a 100% great song, but everything else i've heard = meh.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

At times like this I just resort to saying things like "B-but how could anyone think 'Living Room' or 'Good Luck' is meh?"

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't fathom Alan's dislike of them at all. 'Red Alert' - I wouldn't know where to begin criticising it, because I can't think of anything I don't like about it really.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

most days it's hard to imagine anything more full-hearted than "red alert".

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Erm, Red Alert came out early '99, Modjo 'Lady' was mid '01, pedant fans.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Make that Lady was mid '00. Doh!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not writing of BJ - i can see that critically they are loved - so it actually troubles me (not like i spend ages dwelling on it). it's like being able to see all the numbers on a dart board clearly BUT NOT THE BULLSEYE. or something

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Red Alert is a bit too full-lunged sometimes.

― Humph, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

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Seem to recall a couple of months ago Has It Leaked? claimed they were in the studio so possibly legit

― groovypanda, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link

I hope there is a spoken word track with Ralf from Kraftwerk talking about the history of the band over a minimalist drum machine pulse.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link

Vangelis, By...Vangelis

― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link

i'd like one from rowlf, the muppet piano dog.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link

French press says fake

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 6 February 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link

Wow, all mine does is make coffee, never seen one that talks!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 6 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link

Here's hoping they use a drum machine and/or sampler for percussion again.

― octobeard, Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link

Yeah, Boombass from Cassius has denied any knowledge xps

― groovypanda, Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link

I guess around the time of RAM, I noticed that those guys have never used a female vocalist. Have I missed that they in fact did? Is it not unusual that scholarly fellows such as they have avoided doing so?

― veronica moser, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link

The only female vocals they've ever used are on 'Ouverture', from Daft Club, iirc. That's Élodie Bouchez, Thomas Bangalter's wife. And yes, it's very unusual.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Looks like they’ve officially disbanded?

― eisimpleir (crüt), Monday, 22 February 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link

Ha, yes, I bumped the more recently active thread, but I saw that.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

My wife says ppl online are freaking out b/c the group just updated their homepage. Anyone heard anything?

― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link

surely it's an NFT thing

― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link

They're playing at my house.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link

Da Funkgible Token Punk

― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link

They're playing at my house.

Alternatively, they're going to show up for LCD Soundsystem's SNL performance this weekend.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link

https://www.twitch.tv/daftpunk

― fpsa, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link

Kinda fun! Wish I'd gone to the show but I remember the era there.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link

this is pretty cool

― fpsa, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link

whats the venue?

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link

The Mayan in LA

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link

Also reissuing Homework on vinyl, apparently.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link

Been a fun set. Just listening mostly but it's a true snapshot of time and place.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link

video download since Youtube rips are being taken down:
https://m**a.nz/file/uVtkmIzD#3YZtUJcgUMZNqL4cZ71UjraiYwtMecZiVkbSr13-uII

― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link

Saw them around that time. They were fun but not too different from very good contemporary Chicago or NYC dj’s playing in the House world. It’s just that …” pssst … these are two really young French dudes!” made it special.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link

The first album, remixes, offshoot labels and “Discovery” were and are still godhead to me, though.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:00 (two years ago) link

xxpost -- thanks for that!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link

yeah, thanks

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 February 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link

eleven months pass...

https://ra.co/news/78411

Thomas Bangalter, one half of legendary duo Daft Punk, is releasing a new solo album.
Out on April 7th via Erato/Warner Classics, Mythologies was commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for the ballet of the same name, which was premiered last year by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.

― groovypanda, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link

Interesting. The ballet's title is a direct reference to Barthes which is blowing my late-90s rave+theory mind.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link

that's a dope record cover

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:36 (one year ago) link

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