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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

It's very boring, that song. "Where's YOur Head At", THAT'S a track

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

'Where's Your Head At' is kind of annoying.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn straight

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It's you guys fault the ILM Top 100 sucks >:[

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

no it's my fault, i forgot to vote

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

and to think that in porn circles bj and dp mean something else

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

hahaha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone think that Metro Area has the potential to become the American head of the international hydra of dance-pop. Will they ever add more vocals and pop-ness?
I think of them I guess because there are two of them and I think they are all awesome.

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Skykicking archives should be required reading for ILXors. Also, "Digital Love" is one of the greatest songs ever - it's one of the purest distillations of longing and emotion ever recorded. I'm hotly anticipating its showing on the ILM tracks countdown.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It's easily top 3.

― M.Y.S.T.I.C. R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree about 'Digital Love', it's better than 'Romeo', which I do love

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Nothing is better than Digital Love.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer 'Crescendolls' and maybe 'Harder Faster Better Strongo'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, maybe "Harder Faster Better Stronger".

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Hang on now, "Lady" by Modjo is an ace song! it's like the pop house "Last Christmas"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

the Aloud mix of 'What I Mean' is much better :)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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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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