Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

how does he explain "Happy"?

"I'm a hot air balloon, I could go to space." —Pharrell

xpost What did the Chem Brothers do at the peak of their popularity? Or Orbital, et al? Iirc they were all lauded for their live performances, but I never saw them perform.

Both of them melted your face off.

And then I was never able to see them again. :(

Orbital at Glastonbury 1994 was actually the UK version of this very thing.

Must be tough.

story checks out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJqGR5u5LI

good times

daft punk was the entry electronic/dance music act for a lot of ppl of my cultural cohort (current late 20s/early 30s college/indie-rock type kids) and the live tour (i was a senior in college) was the sort of turning moment as i remember

that's not quite the same thing as DP being the "EDM" gateway drug but it was a similar dynamic i think

And then I was never able to see them again. :(

doubt Chems live show this year is going to be any different with just Tom barely visible than it would have been with both of them still barely visible

What, what? Are they down a Bro?

Anyway, I was making a literal joke, since Dan said they melted my face off.

ah.

Ed has stopped touring, still recording. The dude who's done the incredible visuals with them on the last tours is still going.

http://pitchfork.com/news/59661-daft-punk-release-limited-edition-skateboards/

i seriously do not understand the slow trickle of tasteful & pricey merchandise that keeps dripping out 2 years after the hype cycle for this album started

but i'm definitely buying a daft punk coffee mug

Daft Punk was also the entry point for indie rock kids ca. 1995. Guys I knew who listened only to like, Pavement and Jesus & Mary Chain and The Cure were suddenly way into them. Which as a newly converted techno snob of course I scoffed at.

those skateboards look great

teal & orange.xls

https://soundcloud.com/sixtine-ricothewizard/the-fight-le-knight-club

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/11270228_10153247201205673_6488985271395576364_o.jpg

The live set that changed the direction and velocity of all electronic dance music

The only thing I have a problem with is "all". The statement really applies to the US, where Alive coincided with Kanye's Stronger.

Was that the greatest ever tour to follow a total flop album? It basically erased Human After All from the collective memory banks.

I don't mean that Alive was only a big deal because of Stronger, not at all, but the combination made it the point at which the US really got dance music. I have to read Matos's book to see what else was going on at that point that made EDM take off but this was the big bang.

http://mareplaytv.fr/video/daft-punk-unchained-documentaire-du-24-juin-2015/

enjoyed seeing M. Matos show up in this documentary

a friend just sent me this one, presumably for the similarity in the chords & wordless vocal hook to 'Get Lucky':

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtB5jC9_kc4

(production by Guy-Manuel)

sounds like it, too

that's like, the Game of Love synth?

does anyone have a file of this?

https://soundcloud.com/davidmorales/get-lucky-david-morales

I still love that endlessly ascending synth noise on 'Contact' ... fantastic drumming, too!

gr8080 i'll help ya out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjEzx7Glr8

So bummed there was no Alive 2017. :(

that's like, the Game of Love synth?

― niels, Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:31 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure it's a Wurlitzer!

I'm not really bummed that there hasn't been a live show. I can't see how it would live up to either Alive 2006/7 or the studio recordings on Random Access Memories. Pharrell and Chic both play "Get Lucky" live; Julian Casablancas plays "Instant Crush"; and that's about as close we're gonna get.

I'm more bummed that "Overnight" didn't get much attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdBc2Ba8ts

^ You can kind of sing "Face To Face" over that, so they're definitely still making music that can mesh with their earlier recordings, but honestly I think another Alive 2007-style mashup gig would be super corny. otoh I think an Alive 1997-style gig where they're just doing "Da Funk" for 30 minutes would be fantastic!! I've seen way too many fanboys talk about what Daft Punk "should" do next, but fuck it: I wish they would just do some DJ gigs again.

I think they might be laying low till the Chic album comes out? I seem to remember they were supposed to be contributing to that, and in interviews about the album recently Nile Rodgers has kept talking about how there will be a "big surprise."

Sorry. I'm a dork.

You're right that another mashup gig would be corny, and so would have an attempt at playing the new album live with a rotating cast of "surprise" guests.

Alive 1997 it is then ;)

btw this is a fun video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpG3XrPhgtM

my favorite bit of Nile Rodgers in "Get Lucky" is in the second half of the song when the prechorus and chorus come back in over the robot voices and DP sample a different guitar rhythm just for the second chord in the four-chord sequence and it's massively funky

^ I think I can hear it, but pretty fuckin' subtle. Unlike the nadir of the album, when halfway through Contact the drummer decides to give up on the awesome beat and just hit everything within reach on every beat, and nothing in between. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, I find it unlistenable.

haha true

tbh I found a lot of this album sounded pretty compressed to my ears

agreed that "Contact" is underwhelming

that drum part is reminiscent of the drums on "The Final Countdown" though so I guess it's thematically appropriate

I couldn't disagree more, re: 'Contact' ... my favourite track on the album.

Like, by miles.

I like my melodrama with a little more Paul Williams

yeah, that one's the centerpiece