it'll definitely be a huge event but I can't imagine it being any good!
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol not sure why i continued with that post
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
anyway I don't listen to any DP outside of Alive 2007 any more. their full length albums always really bummed me out. Discovery is pretty good I guess.
http://ggeeoorrgg.net/wp-content/themes/tumblelog/images/i_want_to.jpg
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
I think I'm the only one on earth but I like their TRON ost !
The people they're working with suggest an avenue for it that could yield something good, like a kind of back to roots disco/pop record (apart from Panda Bear but that's a v old rumour.)
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
scared by the collabs rumors (esp Panda bear) but I am ready to believe
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
i'd like to see an ian brown or a richard ashcroft involved. or perhaps a really old school rap figure, you know, from before rap became about bitches and hos.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
MC Miker G?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbamz6y7SG1r5dalro1_1280.jpg
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
No Hope Sandoval no credibility.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
...or Beth Orton?
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
When electronic musicians release albums with several big-name guest stars, the results tend to be pretty meh, right? Psyence Fiction, Fat of the Land, Saturnz Return, etc... Seems this stuff is always less than the sum of its parts, or has someone actually managed to pull it off with great results?
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 March 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
That said, I would by a Daft Punk/MC Miker G collab single in an eyeblink.
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 March 2013 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Another collab I would love to hear is between Thomas Bangalter and his dad, it's weird that this hasn't already happened? Daniel Bangalter/Vangarde has written and produced many awesome disco tunes that are better than any Daft Punk track.
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 March 2013 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
That may well be true but I just have a reflex cringe at the idea of any musician collaborating with their dad.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 March 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
But there are many examples of this producing great records! Frank & Nancy Sinatra, Serge & Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Staple Singers, etc...
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 March 2013 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
would his dad wear a helmet ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 1 March 2013 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
― B.A. "Bad Attitude" Santamaria (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 March 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
I hope this is isn't the Daft Punk album Gotham wants,
but the Daft Punk album Gotham needs.
(quietly repping for Contino Sessions as a good album w'guest vocalists)
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 1 March 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
^ good one
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 1 March 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
the new DJ Koze is the collab-heavy dance album it's ok to like
― Number None, Friday, 1 March 2013 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
((has it leaked))
???
― Crackle Box, Friday, 1 March 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
the koze...
yup
― Number None, Friday, 1 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Basement Jaxx's Kish Kash?
― MarkoP, Friday, 1 March 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, excellent point. I'm not sure Daft are close enough to their prime to give us a Kish Kash at this point, but we'll see.
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Friday, 1 March 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/49754-daft-punk-air-mysterious-advertisement-during-saturday-night-live/
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 3 March 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
sounds exactly how i'd expect a Daft Punk/Nile Rodgers collaboration to soundhttp://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxakggLCkn1ql1xs6o1_500.gif
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 3 March 2013 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
"let the games begin"
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 3 March 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds promising to me, once they stay towards disco/pop and away from blurping techno then I trust them.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
goddamn that sounds like nile fucking rogers to me.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
It sounds pretty good, I found myself imagining the Digital Love style vocoder that might come in at any moment.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 March 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
yesssssssss
― we're beautiful like robots in dis guys (m bison), Sunday, 3 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
I take it that's not a sample? That would be interesting, if they've gone straight to their roots and doing straightforward disco now... I wouldn't mind that, because IMO "I Love You More" > "Digital Love".
― Tuomas, Sunday, 3 March 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
multiple commercials for this during snl
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
EVENT!
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 March 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not a huge Daft Punk fan but if they become responsible for re-introducing Nile Rodgers styled musicality back into dance music I will build a pyramid in my backyard in their honour.
― Oblique Strategies, Sunday, 3 March 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― :C (crüt), Sunday, 3 March 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
Très chic.
― willem, Sunday, 3 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
That would be interesting, if they've gone straight to their roots and doing straightforward disco now...
Nile's been talking for over a year now about jamming with them and how great it was
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Sunday, 3 March 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
that is like the best-case scenario of what a 16 second sample of their new album could be
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 4 March 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
― zero dark (s1ocki), Sunday, March 3, 2013 5:02 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
YES, this.
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Monday, 4 March 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
Now let's just hope they didn't decide to just have that loop for 5 minutes and call it a song.
― MarkoP, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
relevant to my
― caek, Monday, 4 March 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
otm. Minimum 9 minutes.
― Plasmon, Monday, 4 March 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
Best album of the year material, where will this album place in P&J?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 4 March 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/U43Ate3Itjs
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 4 March 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
i saw a tv commercial last night that was like 3 seconds long and just said "daft punk"
― purp (roxymuzak), Monday, 4 March 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
Y'all know this album will be hot garbage
― my super interesting Kant story (DJP), Monday, 4 March 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
Pharell's vocal on Lose Yourself to Dance is pretty bad. But beyond the sounds of his voice, the grammar grates horribly for me:
"I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often"
I don't feel there are any circumstances that would lead to one human uttering that sentence verbatim to another human.
"That often" or "too often" would make so much more sense...
Furthermore: the guitar does pretty much the same thing throughout the track, so it sounds silly when he calls out "Guitar!" and it just carries on doing what it was doing.
I anticipated this album like crazy, enjoyed elements of it when it came out, but now it is firmly my least favourite Daft Punk album.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 27 February 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
I also hate the album cover. This logo from the promotional videos would have been 1000x better:
https://i.imgur.com/4KZONGd.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 27 February 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
I always heard it as "or something" rather than "this often", not that that makes the lyric any better.
DP aren't exactly known for their perfect grammatical flourishes ("We're up all night for good fun", "The kind of feeling I've waited so long").
It's acceptable and kind of amusing when sung by a gallic robot, but not so much when Pharrell does it
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Saturday, 27 February 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
Agree on Pharrell’s vocal on that one being pretty lackluster, sucks because the instrumental is great.
I once heard an edit that cutted out his vocals and just left the vocoder “robot voice” and it improved the song greatly imho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
Also agree on the album cover. Always irked me that they decided to break the tradition of having the logo only as the album cover.
I like the boxset edition with only the title better. Hell, I even like the fan edits that parody Thriller better:
https://imgur.com/gallery/FkNA0yF
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
how has the term "new jersey" never once been used itt
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
This first came out just after I was made redundant, and it genuinely "helped me through a difficult time" - I remember thinking of it as referencing the past to offer up a prayer for the future. I'd never been much invested in DP as an album act before, so didn't have any weight of expectation, and was soothed/invigorated/intoxicated by what I experienced as a unique sound-world.
I ended up playing it too often, and got to the point where I no longer got anything from it. So when I read some of the recent criticisms upthread, I wondered whether I'd been over-investing in what had turned out to be a weak piece of work.
Seeing that the vinyl is now worth a decent amount on Discogs, I listed it for sale a couple of days ago, then gave it a farewell play... only to find that it had almost completely renewed itself, and that what had worked as a life-beyond-redundancy soundtrack now worked as a life-beyond-lockdown soundtrack. Now as then, there's something deeply reassuring at its core. None of the songs felt too long or too repetitive (although I've certainly sometimes felt that with some of their all-electronic work), and I luxuriated in its textures. "Touch" into "Get Lucky" still felt like the fulcrum of the whole set, and the positioning of those two tracks on Side Three still felt just right.
Halfway through Side Four, the record sold. If it hadn't, I might have withdrawn the sales listing.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
Daft Punk reveals tenth anniversary edition of Random Access Memories with unreleased materialhttps://t.co/wLoXkPxDAn— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) February 22, 2023
...includes nine unreleased tracks totaling 35 minutes. Among the bonus material are alternate versions of "Get Lucky," "Lose Yourself To Dance" and "Give Life Back To Music," unfinished demos and other behind-the-scenes recordings. There's also the 2021 version of "Touch" used in the duo's farewell video.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
01. Give Life Back To Music02. The Game Of Love03. Giorgio By Moroder04. Within05. Instant Crush06. Lose Yourself To Dance07. Touch08. Get Lucky09. Beyond10. Motherboard11. Fragments of Time12. Doin' it right13. Contact14. Horizon (Japan CD)15. GLBTM (Studio Outtakes)16. Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo)17. GL (Early Take)18. Prime (2012 Unfinished)19. LYTD (Vocoder Tests)20. The Writing of Fragments Of Time21. Touch (2021 Epilogue)
Columbia Records will release Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition) on May 12th, 2023.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
10 years? Jfc I'm old
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:13 (one year ago) link
Wait til you find out how old Homework is this year
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
Homework does feel like a long time ago tho, RAM feels like about 3 years back
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
A song called Vocoder Tests by Daft Punk excites me.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
GLBTM (studio outtakes) out today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiZfLvLU5Jc
― StanM, Friday, 21 April 2023 12:32 (eleven months ago) link
oh, and this was out a Month ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKekR6661o
― StanM, Friday, 21 April 2023 12:34 (eleven months ago) link
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles)
It’s not a song. It’s literal vocoder tests for “lose yourself to dance”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 21 April 2023 13:52 (eleven months ago) link
why the hell aren't those strings on the actual "Give Life Back To Music"
― c u (crüt), Friday, 21 April 2023 14:38 (eleven months ago) link
They are released a "drumless" version of this album. Seems pointless to me, but maybe the drums were a late addition to the album? might as well just put up all the mixing tracks and see what people can do.
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:54 (six months ago) link
Drumless and no-vocals would be interesting
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 29 September 2023 11:21 (six months ago) link
someone's got a contractual obligation to fulfill with Columbia!!!
― Murgatroid, Friday, 29 September 2023 11:42 (six months ago) link
Discovery (sample less edition) coming up
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:13 (six months ago) link
This idea is wack tbh.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:14 (six months ago) link
Random Access Memories (4’33” mix)
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 29 September 2023 14:16 (six months ago) link
Within version is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLa3JlGANuU
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:25 (six months ago) link
^ tbf, that's a pretty great version
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:28 (six months ago) link
I'm weirdly and unexpectedly really digging this version. Sounds like the best produced muzak ever, highlighting stuff i'd never noticed on the original. A bit of an odd flex but nails what it's meant to achieve - making people listen to the album with fresh ears
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
As I said upthread, if they took the vocals out too, that would be even better
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:23 (five months ago) link
"We took all the music out." "Ah...excellence."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 November 2023 16:24 (five months ago) link
Also most of the music
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:24 (five months ago) link
I also like this version more than I expected to, but I also wasn't feeling especially cynical about it to begin with
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 17 November 2023 16:50 (five months ago) link
Unsurprisingly the uptempo stuff doesn't work that well - Lose Yourself to Dance is agonizingly long and dull - but the maudlin stuff at the beginning sounds really nice, in a 1986 aging yuppie kinda way
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 November 2023 17:00 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiG1H9QH_4
session drummer/percussionist on RAM says he was involved with sessions for a new album in 2018 and has heard they're working on that material again recently
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:05 (two months ago) link