Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

...or Beth Orton?

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?

That said, I would by a Daft Punk/MC Miker G collab single in an eyeblink.

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.

That may well be true but I just have a reflex cringe at the idea of any musician collaborating with their dad.

But there are many examples of this producing great records! Frank & Nancy Sinatra, Serge & Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Staple Singers, etc...

would his dad wear a helmet ?

I think I'm the only one on earth but I like their TRON ost !

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)

^ good one

the new DJ Koze is the collab-heavy dance album it's ok to like

((has it leaked))

???

the koze...

yup

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?

Basement Jaxx's Kish Kash?

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.

http://pitchfork.com/news/49754-daft-punk-air-mysterious-advertisement-during-saturday-night-live/

sounds exactly how i'd expect a Daft Punk/Nile Rodgers collaboration to sound
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxakggLCkn1ql1xs6o1_500.gif

"let the games begin"

Sounds promising to me, once they stay towards disco/pop and away from blurping techno then I trust them.

goddamn that sounds like nile fucking rogers to me.

It sounds pretty good, I found myself imagining the Digital Love style vocoder that might come in at any moment.

yesssssssss

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".

multiple commercials for this during snl

EVENT!

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.

otm

Très chic.

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

that is like the best-case scenario of what a 16 second sample of their new album could be

that is like the best-case scenario of what a 16 second sample of their new album could be

― zero dark (s1ocki), Sunday, March 3, 2013 5:02 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES, this.

Now let's just hope they didn't decide to just have that loop for 5 minutes and call it a song.

relevant to my

Now let's just hope they didn't decide to just have that loop for 5 minutes and call it a song.

otm. Minimum 9 minutes.

Best album of the year material, where will this album place in P&J?

http://youtu.be/U43Ate3Itjs

i saw a tv commercial last night that was like 3 seconds long and just said "daft punk"

Y'all know this album will be hot garbage

i saw a tv commercial last night that was like 3 seconds long and just said "daft punk"

a different one to the one being discussed?

lol dan

lol someone's out for pimp ship's balloon-popping crown

I'm with Dan. There needs to be a bit more balloonpopping on ILM these days.

Still: that's a nice loop.

guy from Aeroplane *is shaking*

Aeroplane shared a link.
16 hours ago
Me & The Robots

One day, a friend of mine gave me a record she got for her birthday but didn't like. That record was Daft Punk's first album " Homework " .
I came home, and played the thing. It changed something in my brain and left me with an energy and an excitement I hadn't felt before.
So I played it again, and I've been playing it for the past 15 years. One week after that I stopped my Nirvana cover band to buy a computer and a sound card. I was 15 and that's how I got into electronic music.

Since that day, all my efforts went into trying to make a record that would make people feel the same way, that would make ME feel the same way.
Do Thomas and Guy-Man feel like that when they listen to their own records ? I hope so, if not they're missing out. Much like my other heroes Kraftwerk, they get perfection out of simplicity , which is the real challenge. They are like a magician ( no pun intended ) that reveals his tricks to you but still you stare at him without understanding. I've tried to crack the code, copy them, tried to sound like them until I realized it's not the way to go ( I couldn't anyway… ) and I had to try to come up with my own identity. There is something so special and specific about the way they sound.

All their records were influential, the artworks, the videos, let's not even talk about their live show which is the best thing dance music brought to us. How can you compete with that ? You can't. And you shouldn't. They've been criticized for the sampling ( even by me, I regret it ) but thing is I wouldn't have been able to come up with One More Time, which to me is the best example of how to use a sample to create something new.

Today a 16 second video got me shaking. Physically shaking. I can't wait. I missed them. They know how to push our buttons and how to create incredible buzz and expectations and always match it . Nile Rodgers on the guitar ? We've known that for a while but hearing it sound exactly like what you dreamt of is an incredible feeling.

Daft Punk is the reason why I want to stop making music. They are also the reason why I want to keep making music. It gives me the hope that one day I can hit that spot and make someone feel like I felt today and 15 years ago.

They are back. Thomas, Guy-Man thanks for everything, and even if we've never met I love you both.

very excited by this sample.
otm "hearing it sound exactly like what you dreamt of"
let this be the record of the summer !

keep them shook crews runnin

maybe that sample is a standard Columbia recs jingle from the 70s

Y'all know this album will be hot garbage

not really, no. i don't know this.

lol at a COMMERCIAL being yanked from youtube for copyright infringement.

Homework does feel like a long time ago tho, RAM feels like about 3 years back

A song called Vocoder Tests by Daft Punk excites me.

GLBTM (studio outtakes) out today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiZfLvLU5Jc

oh, and this was out a Month ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKekR6661o

A song called Vocoder Tests by Daft Punk excites me.

― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles)

It’s not a song. It’s literal vocoder tests for “lose yourself to dance”

why the hell aren't those strings on the actual "Give Life Back To Music"

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.

Drumless and no-vocals would be interesting

someone's got a contractual obligation to fulfill with Columbia!!!

Discovery (sample less edition) coming up

This idea is wack tbh.

Random Access Memories (4’33” mix)

Within version is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLa3JlGANuU

^ tbf, that's a pretty great version

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

As I said upthread, if they took the vocals out too, that would be even better

"We took all the music out." "Ah...excellence."

Also most of the music

I also like this version more than I expected to, but I also wasn't feeling especially cynical about it to begin with

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

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