Daft Punk Live-Seriously this time.....

yeah I felt a bit manipulated but I was glad they were back

Forgot how great the added encore to the 07 show was.

I will say it was pretty cool when those videos made the rounds detailing how large portions of DP tunes were lifted wholesale from obscure French artists and pretty much no one cared. feel like in a different era that would've been a huge deal.

Can you sue a robot?

The LCD thing was extra annoying because they only waited five years, which is just a normal amount of time for some acts to go between albums. Hell, it's been 20 years since the last proper Peter Gabriel album, but I doubt he's been fielding incessant phone calls about it.

xp I missed those, I heard the 'original' of crescendolls on the radio the other day and I was a bit :(

xps for the one guy out there who didn't already know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKrwna2C8

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…I believe that this is true at least vis-a-vis the studio record canon, not w/r/t mixes or when they DJed which I know nothing of…like, the music that was most fecund for them is house and disco, not at all redoubts for "no girls allowed" shit, quite the opposite… like they would have rather put Julian Goddamn Casablancas or Panda Bear instead of any notable woman singer… but they never did…

I went to the Coney Island show in '07, and it was one of the best nights of music in my life…

maybe this is a dumb question but how much of their live show was "live"? i.e. what are they actually doing up there on the stage beside dance around?

― skip, Monday, February 22, 2021 1:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

My understanding is that most of the tracks were already lined up in Ableton, synced up with some sequenced parts fed into analog synths, and most of what they did onstage involved mixing all that and twiddling knobs (filtering + stutter effects). So it wasn't simply hitting play on a backing track and miming along but it was still pretty railroaded.

That's re: the Alive 2006/2007 tour. I'm sure their actual DJ sets were more spontaneous

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…

yeah I agree for the most part — there is "High Life" though!

it kinda pissed me off when Romanthony died and they didn't publicly acknowledge it at all (as far as I know)

many xps while I looked for the link on wayback

Here was the 2011 LCD post announcing its breakup:

I totally misremembered that the five Terminal 5 shows got added, and then added to, after MSG got scalped (with tickets going for $11,000!), not the other way around. But still, yeah he said that they'd record and play live on a small scale only in New York, then over six years later decided to tour again after all. People change their minds about things sometimes! Especially when the circumstances around which they made a statement changed mere days after they made it, six years earlier.

i’m sure this {ed: adding the smaller shows} will wind someone up somewhere (“but i paid $600 for one seat at MSG!!!) or seem like some shitty “plan” to someone else (“they were gonna do it all along!!! it’s all a big retirement money plan to bilk the fans!!!”) or something else that someone who theoretically likes our band thinks (why are you trying to buy a ticket?? how could you even listen to a band that you think is capable of some of this shit!??)

Anyway Daft Punk's last tour was the best live performance ever by humans or robots, and that debuted as a Coachella headline. It's hard to imagine any way in which "retiring" 13 years later in the middle of a pandemic, and "unretiring" fifteen years after the tour when people can go to festivals again is going to help them get a better gig.

seeing as DP didn't really need any of those concerns satisfied afaik, i'm unsure what the point of breaking up is?

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

hearing this for the first time if you weren't familiar with it before Robot Rock has to be one of the most jarring "WTF sample" moments.

adding myself to the list of ilxors who were at that 2007 Chicago Lollapalooza show

xp yeah I'm cool with sampling in general but that was a bridge too far, even shitty vaporwave producers put more effort into it than that

xp I wonder if doesn’t have something to do with getting rid of the robot schtick and being able to release high profile records under their own names

Was also at the 2007 Chicago show. Distinctly remember that there were no other bands I was interested in that day and still bought the ticket w/out hesitation. *checks lineup* Not a strong lineup for that Friday! (LCD, MIA, Femi, Rapture...)

xp I wonder if doesn’t have something to do with getting rid of the robot schtick and being able to release high profile records under their own names

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, February 22, 2021 5:34 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bangalter released that one track in the midst of the Ed Banger mania that was pretty good.

seeing as DP didn't really need any of those concerns satisfied afaik, i'm unsure what the point of breaking up is

maybe they fell out with each other, or one or both of them no longer feels motivated to create music, or their manager kept hassling them about doing a record and they split up just because they were sick of his texts

or just to give it a nice theatrical ending.

sampling effort, the way you know a sample is good or not

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…

not defending ram here which is a different story but i always thought the vocals were pretty androgynous?

Well shit. Saw them at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in 2007. Best live show of all time. Was hoping they'd storm back with a house record, but alas.

sampling effort, the way you know a sample is good or not

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, February 22, 2021 4:09 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bangalter’s gonna keep doing the music for gaspar noe films and wanted to make sure his calendar was clear

I never knew this. WOW!

Thank you, Daft Punk. https://t.co/I9rusDIrbZ

— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) February 22, 2021

or one or both of them no longer feels motivated to create music

just watched Epilogue: haven't seen Electroma, and assume it is an outtake from that. but if not and they went to a desert to film this during the pandemic, seems clear that the message is that Thomas is the one who wants to quit (also less likely since he's always been more prolific outside of the band).

lol xp to mh

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/daft-punk-kanye-west-coachella-unpublished-interview-1234912789/

seems clear that the message is that Thomas is the one who wants to quit (also less likely since he's always been more prolific outside of the band).

we've established that I have trouble reading your posts and it's happened again - here with the parenthetical

it doesn't really mean anything either way, just guessing that if one of them were dried up creatively in 2021, it'd more likely be the one who's generally done less music outside the group. (even Le Knight Club was a duo, and mainly filtered disco loops...)

they've both done collabs independently of the other in the past few years - Thomas with the Arcade Fire, Guy-Man with the Weeknd and Charlotte Gainsbourg

was the Parcels track the last released thing that they worked on together??

afaik, but I didn't know Guy-Man had done Weeknd stuff without Bangalter

he co-wrote & produced one track on My Dear Melancholy along with Gesaffelstein. what i didn't know is that he co-wrote & produced Kavinsky's "Nightcall"!

neither has been that prolific with solo collaborations really, they've both done about the same amount

had a couple of co-writes on the Tellier album he produced too

Bangalter has done solo stuff (and a little more writing?) as well as other collabs, was my idle half-thought. but it turns out the video is taken directly from the end of Electroma, so no runes to scry either way.

Digging to catch up on the bits they've done since Parcels (in 2017):

Thomas produced and co-wrote Supercherie (2018, kinda Get Lucky-lite) and produced, co-wrote, played synth and sang on L'autre Paradis (2019) for -M-.
Guy-Man wrote the music, co-wrote the lyrics and produced Rest by Charlotte Gainsbourg (2017, mixed by the other bloke from Le Knight Club), and Hurt You (2018) is that Weeknd song with Gesaffelstein.

also was not aware that Natalie Imbruglia had released a cover of Instant Crush

I kind of wonder if the continuity they’ve had since the large-scale festival and arena shows that’s followed through to appearing in the helmets in a variety of tv performances and collaborations has kind of boxed-in the brand. The between-album shifts and minor reinventions are a little trickier to pull off when you’re yoked to the robot helmet shtick?

Random Access was the biggest style shift of all, played with real humans in contrast to the robot helmet schtick. Probably would have been time for a major helmet redesign if they made another record, or just go full anonymous - the helmets were a very minor part of the image when they debuted for Discovery, given the Interstella 5555 videos.

https://miro.medium.com/max/800/1*38WCDE3LajjMlasKnhAFiA.gif

li'l cuties

The Helmets were actually designed for the Discovery era. Interstella 5555 doesn’t feature them much since the idea for the anime was developed with TOEI in the early stages of Discovery and the helmets came after, developed by Alterian. At one point the helmet designs even had hair.

Here’s a short interview with helmet creator Tony Gardner, where you can see the hair design and explaining the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtjucCWeOf4

Also more info with some early nsfw photoshoots:

http://alterianinc.com/creative-boom-daft-punks-discovery-at-20-collaborators-on-crafting-the-iconic-robot-look-and-revolution/

was this already posted?

Original Daft Punk helmets under construction by Alterian Inc. pic.twitter.com/Ja3mF5M16b

— Daft Punk Fandom🤖🤖 (@Daft_Wub) February 18, 2021