Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

so are parts of the 2007 one, i see that album as the nail in the coffin for that sound. everytime i put it on i'm surprised by how good (and moving, at times) it is.

i always figured HAA was a reaction to that whole 'trying to be daft punk' copycat thing that's persisted for the last 10 years or so. especially the way things were heading around 2004-5 with certain scenes getting bigger, louder, brasher, less conceptual, less futuristic-techno-robot-utopia-celebration, more mid 00s-anxietyridden-dystopia. i find a lot of that boys noise/justice/simian mobile disco type scene really ugly.

i actually really like how little happens on HAA and how 'lo-fi' it is. it's not like they didn't give the fans what they wanted all along with alive 2007 anyway.

this loop is funny though, it's not really giving much away. i don't really like the drums on it but it does has that magical daft punk sunshine vibe, which is a good sign imo.

i'm really hoping the morodor collab is some kind of 10 minute disco arpeggio prog odyssey

like this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM49JFEsd7g

Moroder's contrib is spoken vocals tho AFAWK

As Far As Winona Knows?

This loop, for all we know, is a snippet of a breakdown on one song. Do we know if Nile actually played on everything or just dropped in to play on some stuff?

lol if the loop was the panda bear track

Yeah, here's Giorgio talking about his contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5koXi_49rDs

unheimlicher perfectionist!

amazing

i always figured HAA was a reaction to that whole 'trying to be daft punk' copycat thing that's persisted for the last 10 years or so. especially the way things were heading around 2004-5 with certain scenes getting bigger, louder, brasher, less conceptual, less futuristic-techno-robot-utopia-celebration, more mid 00s-anxietyridden-dystopia. i find a lot of that boys noise/justice/simian mobile disco type scene really ugly.

But didn't HAA essentially encourage more of that type of sound?

Yeah I raised an eye at that, HAA basically *is* that sound.

HAA was maybe more tongue in cheek than it seemed? i dunno - it's kind of a crap album but in the context of Alive 2007 it's very good. In the same way I don't think Homework really sounds too good these days after seeing what they did with those tunes later on. Discovery still sounds good though.

HAA was a practical joke AFAIC

i listened to discovery all the way through for the first time in what must be years yesterday and it sounded glorious. i forgot how many songs were on it!

"Digital Love" is still such an incredible track

OTM

yes, and one more time etc but i had forgotten how many OTHER tracks there were

I always skup One More Time. Never enjoyed it a great deal TBH.

more like one less time

tbh Alive 2007 ruined pretty much all DP for me since I only want to hear the version of "One More Time" that goes into "Aerodynamic", or the "Superheroes" that runs with "Human After All". I think "Digital Love" and maybe "Da Funk" were the only tracks spared from this (the former because it wasn't on Alive nor would it have fit, the latter doesn't really mix well with others). In that respect HAA felt like an "expansion pack" release, none of those tracks were really good on their own but damn do they mix well with everything else.

Shit, I've had Alive 2007 hanging around since... must be 2007, and I still haven't given it a proper spin. Will change that tonight.

it still feels odd to me since I had downloaded their infamous Coachella set and that summer I had coworkers who loved DP so we listened to that all the freakin time - when Alive came out it was basically the same but with some minor differences so it always felt a little weird to me

Alive 2007 is pretty much the only Daft Punk album I listen to as an album.

Listened to Alive 2007 at 6am on Friday night/saturday morning at full blast whilst high on life/beers/cocaine and can confirm that it is still GLORIOUS.

casual mentions '13

casually mentioning playing music at full blast

intentionally casual btw.

it's not the side effects of the cocaine

Nathan East is the slept-on collaborator here. Dude's played bass for Barry White, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Lionel Richie, Aretha, Whitney and scores of other greats. Hoping they'll be using him a lot.

I also read somewhere that they were possibly working with some of the studio musicians that worked on Thriller, though I'm not sure who.

vincent price

i heard Meatloaf was involved with some of the foley work

I heard Scott Joplin was going to play piano.

I heard they're using Thomas Edison's original wax cylinders

I heard u and ur band sold your samplers and bought piano rolls
I heard you and ur band sold your piano rolls and bought opium

I heard everyone that you know is more relevant than everyone I know. xp ha

I also read somewhere that they were possibly working with some of the studio musicians that worked on Thriller, though I'm not sure who.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, March 6, 2013

http://www.dancingastronaut.com/2013/02/5-game-changers-behind-daft-punks-new-album/

i heard they were working with 5 game changers

they're working with tom friedman

i didn't even hear that, i just know that

I love how Gonzales is now considered a game changer

They've only been working with him for 12 years, his involvement is plainly going to transform their process

The hyperbole in that listicle reads like ESL

whoa, david foster?

album of the year.

www.dancingastronaut.com

Shit, I'm really buying into all the hype and now my expectations are really high. This can only lead to heartbreak.

perhaps 808s as well?

Have a friend who works in a mastering plant who told me a couple of tracks were made with noted game changer Shigeru Miyamoto.

The .gif from Interstella has me thinking: won't it be amazing if this is a really big record and they win a main award at the Grammy's and they just blink "Thank You!" and ":)" ?!!!

Shit, I'm really buying into all the hype and now my expectations are really high. This can only lead to heartbreak.

― Kitchen Person, woensdag 6 maart 2013 23:17 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ this, very much so