What's up with Daft Punk?

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Questionable Franz Ferdinand remixes aside, does anyone know what's up with these guys? I know Bangaltar has kept himself busy working on film soundtracks and producing anthemic house songs with collaborator DJ Falcon. Does anyone know if there is anything coming up on the horizon?

― seez, Monday, 16 August 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

homework = 1997
discovery = 2001
new one = 2005?

― jess, Monday, 16 August 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

*crosses fingers*

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

what was that bangalter injury i heard about a while back again? it sounded serious. i hope we have something new soon.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, nasty case of moog finger. terrible shame.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard his LED was on the fritz, rendering him unable to communicate.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard they'd thrown their synthesisers away and bought some garden furniture.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard they threw their garden furniture away and bought coke spoons.

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk love is the thing about ILM i that baffles me most.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

According to Res magazine, they have just designed a TABLE...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

a very expensive coffe table i heard?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 16 August 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk love is the thing about ILM i that baffles me most.

jed, the world is full of golden mysteries. Come, join us... come.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk love is the thing about ILM that I cherish the most.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I love me da Daft Punk, it's the Basement Jaxx I don't get = /

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link

They're now sucking quietly, instead of the in-your-face-on-every-airwave suckage of a year or two ago.

I like it better now.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no haters!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link

they've split up never ever to record anything again. ever.

....damn, was just a dream

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

...a BAD dream.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link

...a NIGHTMARE

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

it was a nice dream. all was well with the world. all wrongs were righted. and thee was no more daft punk.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, I see, go out at the top, that's what you're saying?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link

er, no.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

there was some ep i downloaded offa soulseek a little while ago, "on da dancefloor," anyone know if this is legit?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

also boo to the haters

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently it's not them slutsky, it's not too shabby tho

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i was a little suspicious! but yeah it's not bad, which version is your fave?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone ever get their wonderful toys?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread is f*cked up.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk love is the thing about ILM i that baffles me most.
-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), August 16th, 2004.

you don't like fun?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I love me da Daft Punk, it's the Basement Jaxx I don't get = /

Not even something like "Red Alert"??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

it amazes me how little of ilm is rabid psychotic daft punk fanism.

(a) patrick alavi of work it baby records releases records online and labels them daft punk. some are ok, none are legit.

(b) bangalter fucked up his ears hence the delay.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU TELL EM!!!

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sick of this 'hater' bullshit.

I think they make boring music, and I think I'm entitled to say so on this forum. Do I have to like every single band in every single genre that ever existed to not be a 'hater'?

I don't give a fuck if you don't like the music I like; I'm not going to say "OMG haters!" if you say Coil or the Fall suck on one of the threads dealing with those groups.

P.S. Bassmet Jaxx suck as well. *Especially* something like 'Red Alert'.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

It's just the rules. You have to like Daft Punk. We say so.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Do not feed the haters.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Roxy?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I, can I say something to you just this once?!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I think they make boring music, and I think I'm entitled to say so on this forum.

haha we think you're a boring hater, and we think we're entitled to say so on this forum.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

it's in the faq that if you don't like daft punk you....eh.......I better not say.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, you're right.

Can I hate on Daft Punk on ILX?

Here on ILX, only Lil Jon is more unassailable than Daft Punk and all haters who attempt to board will be repelled. A second offense will result in computer viruses sent to your IP address. Embrace the digital love or leave.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we should add Basement Jaxx and late 90s timbaland.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Other than the Daft Punk and the Basement Jaxx thing, it is kind of nice round here. Has ILX decided that the last DP album was actually any good in some kind of mass oversight?

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link

what are you saying

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

That it sucked.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't get it

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link

it's over-rated, I like it more than ever tho. Basement Jaxx are my favourite thing of all time.

In answer to Barima's question, no no figurines yet :(

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

daft punk >> basement jaxx > drugs, food, bumping uglies, etc

the proof is in comparing the singles tracks and essential mixes and ignoring album vs album matchups.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

no i think Basement Jaxx have better single tracks and essential mixes too

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

heh, well OK, not entirely - several tracks on Homework I might prefer to anything by Jaxx (Da Funk, Fresh, Burnin', Alive)...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link

really?? hm. i thought the daft punk EM was like the holy grail of french/chicago house. it's the one disc (two discs, actually!) that's consistenly been in my CD wallet since i got it (well over a year, i think). maybe it's a, uh, london thing or something.

xpost - hey exactly, don't forget "around the world" and "one more time"

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh i love those DP EMs but the Jaxx ones I've listened to just as much. I'd call it a high-scoring draw.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd love to be able to forget the annoying vocodered vocals on 'one more time' i really would. same goes for the awful vocodered vocals on one of basement jaxx's singles too. i'm sure in time i will. quite simply two of the most overated acts in recent times. still, i'd rather listen to both of them than oasis or manic street bloody preachers.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

outside ilx they are hardly 'overrated' at all. 'discovery' was generally hated on for its alleged retro irony. the jaxx have never really broken through either, especially not the current album.

― ENRQ, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

broken through what exactly? these two acts have merged the art of electronic dance music with pop fun better and more imaginatively than anyone else ever did or probably will.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah that's why "one more time" and "around the world" are still reliably killing dancefloors in house/techno-shy california.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway when something is both annoying and unforgettable it usually means the problem is you. like when you can't get that girl "you can't stand" out of your head. just give in and feel the love, dude.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah they're two of my faves too, i mean 'broken through' as in become 'two of the most overated acts in recent times', which they blatantly have not.

― ENRQ, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

why do i like DP so much, but find everything Jaxx have ever done so lame?

i watched the DP movie last night (5555). it was... funny.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the film is excellent - it worked brilliantly both at my local cinema and on my DVD player. Concept-album-tastic.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i wasn't completely sure that interstella 'worked', but it was worth it just to go to a cinema full of people and listen to one of my favourite records with them (and i've found short circuit considerably more affecting since hearing in the context of the movie).

there was a time when i was a corny fuck of the indie persuasion that i didn't like red alert (i only bought remedy last year actually), but now i find it unthinkable for anybody to question it's utter goodness (and i feel much the same about just about everything else they've done too). (ps. at the time "romeo" tho was a key moment in my then-burgeoning poptimism).

i don't really want to have to imagine "one more time" without vocoders.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i think my jaxx antipathy stems from Red Alert. it's rubbish, really it is, and I mentally grouped it in with lots of other stuff that came out at the time, what i saw as half-hearted sample-based funk/disco stuff - i'm thinking Modjo Lady (was that the same time?). obv they picked up with Romeo (i'd give it 8 out of 10) and Where's Your Head at is a 100% great song, but everything else i've heard = meh.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

At times like this I just resort to saying things like "B-but how could anyone think 'Living Room' or 'Good Luck' is meh?"

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't fathom Alan's dislike of them at all. 'Red Alert' - I wouldn't know where to begin criticising it, because I can't think of anything I don't like about it really.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

most days it's hard to imagine anything more full-hearted than "red alert".

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Erm, Red Alert came out early '99, Modjo 'Lady' was mid '01, pedant fans.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Make that Lady was mid '00. Doh!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not writing of BJ - i can see that critically they are loved - so it actually troubles me (not like i spend ages dwelling on it). it's like being able to see all the numbers on a dart board clearly BUT NOT THE BULLSEYE. or something

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Red Alert is a bit too full-lunged sometimes.

― Humph, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

It's very boring, that song. "Where's YOur Head At", THAT'S a track

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

'Where's Your Head At' is kind of annoying.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn straight

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It's you guys fault the ILM Top 100 sucks >:[

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

no it's my fault, i forgot to vote

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

and to think that in porn circles bj and dp mean something else

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

hahaha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone think that Metro Area has the potential to become the American head of the international hydra of dance-pop. Will they ever add more vocals and pop-ness?
I think of them I guess because there are two of them and I think they are all awesome.

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Skykicking archives should be required reading for ILXors. Also, "Digital Love" is one of the greatest songs ever - it's one of the purest distillations of longing and emotion ever recorded. I'm hotly anticipating its showing on the ILM tracks countdown.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It's easily top 3.

― M.Y.S.T.I.C. R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree about 'Digital Love', it's better than 'Romeo', which I do love

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Nothing is better than Digital Love.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I prefer 'Crescendolls' and maybe 'Harder Faster Better Strongo'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, maybe "Harder Faster Better Stronger".

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Hang on now, "Lady" by Modjo is an ace song! it's like the pop house "Last Christmas"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

the Aloud mix of 'What I Mean' is much better :)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The Mylo and Le Knight Club mixes of Aloud rule.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"Lady" is awesome. That whole time when they were playing that with "If This Ain't Love" was truly a golden age.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"Lady" still gets played regularly enough on the radio. Oddly more than "Music Sounds Better With You", which is mildly annoying.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

*sits on hands*

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"music sounds better with you" and "love at first sight" are almost as good as "digital love".

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"music sounds better with you" is BETTER, I think anyway.

though lately I have to say I have been playing "Something About Us" on repeat. simple but brilliant.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

yes. something is my current fave too

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Face to Face" is wonderful too. It's so nice to bring Todd Edwards out of his speed garage ghetto (which is a lovely ghetto, but he really needs to do some traveling).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i hate to admit it but i think i like "face to face" better than todd edwards' own material. it's, uh, more listenable i guess. better produced or something.

there are some basement jaxx tracks one-up todd edwards too, aren't there? "hot & cold" is the first one that comes to mind.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

'Supersonic' for one.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

pedant alert - i don't associate Todd Edwards with 'speed garage' - 'Face To Face' is a typical Edwards style track really. His remix of Phoenix 'If I Ever Feel better' is my favourite thing he's done tho, bar 'Steal My Heart'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost: Yeah, "Face to Face" is more generally sonically palatable and seems to have cleaner bass and less harsh hi-hats for example - but it's his own production style that serves to accentuate the helium nature of his vocal cut ups and leads to that frenzy of the voice which is a complete endorphin rush for me.

The Jaxx' "Hot & Cold" may sound a bit like "Face to Face" (the soft clang sounds, maybe?) but I don't see it as directly comparable to Edwards' own tracks.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I initially underrated Discovery, even though I knew almost instantly it would be my favourite album of the year. There were moments that I thought just didn't work as well as they could (mainly the slower stuff like "Quo Veridis"), but at some point - and perhaps Interstellar had something to do with this - I just hooked into the way those moments complement the more memorable tracks so well.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost: Steve, I really disagree that "Face to Face" is typical of him. I only say that because virtually all his other tracks follow an extremely strict template which "Face to Face" contradicts on many levels - I mean it has an actual vocal related to the song, it's slower, it has isolated instruments, the snare doesn't sound like a whip etc. The effect of the breathy vocal cut ups is the same, but the construction is very different.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i think i see "hot&cold" as edwards-esque because of the micro-sampled and super-chopped orchestra hits that start the track off, the skippiness of the beat (though yeah, it's closer to a neptunes beat or something than a garage track, and not really similar to either) and there's a bit after the chorus where the singers' voice is like run backwards and masked and filtered into these breathy "oh-oh-oh"s that seems deeply indebted to edwards' (and probably early hardcore and other things too, i guess) if not directly from his playbook.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't want to derail this lovely JAXX conversation but getting back to daft punk...

i for one was less concerned about bangalter's ears than i was about crydamoure's sudden and inexplicable dropping off (first in quality, and then in just dropping off the face of the earth).

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost: Interesting take, I'm going to listen to it again when I get home(It's definitely THE "dance" track on 'Kish Kash,' if you will).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i've spent 10 minutes trying to decide whether or not dastoor meant his slip or not up there

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess they needed a break.

My fave Todd rip is 'Face In A Cloud' by Audio Bullys, back to Punk now.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Keep on deciding, bucko.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I, can I say something to you just this once?!
-- Gear?

Spit it out, dude.

MAN, this thread blew up.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

~~Nick:~~ "Harder! Better! Faster! STRONGO!!"

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

*sits on hands, wishes somebody would give me a clue why these guys are so popular aside from being 'really good'*

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

It's about hearts, not heads, Miccio.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i have to ~~get to someone to call me strongo while~~ hav~~ing~~ sex before i die

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Stevem summed things up nicely here: "these two acts have merged the art of electronic dance music with pop fun better and more imaginatively than anyone else ever did or probably will."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to see if I can work "Harder! Better! Faster! STRONGO!!" into my sex talk next time I get the opportunity.

N.B. It will not be with you.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"art of electronic dance music" sounds pretty damn heads not hearts to me.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah WTF that michaelangelo was practically an anatomist, wasn't he?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

if their references were def leppard and late 80s billy joel instead of the doobie brothers and 10cc, i bet you'd like them

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I meant the "reason they are so popular" is +hearts -heads.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm listening to Discovery again and 'Superheroes' and 'High Life' are suddenly my favourites. It's the album that keeps on giving.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The album mix of "One More Time" sounds so anemic and undanceable.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

where da BASS?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"SOMETHING ABOUT US" 4EVA

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

What's the best mix of 'One More Time'?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I never use my head to appreciate music. I use my ass.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

argh. ILX just ate a paragraph response, but Jess is kind of on the right track with Def Leppard (though late '80s Billy Joel? If you mean I'd prefer it if they rapped about history then yeah, ok). My biggest problem with Daft Punk is how soft the beat feels. It's like the whole album is caked in vaseline. And don't give me the "Anthony doesn't like dance music" jive, ok? Say I don't like IDM, say I don't like Euro-trance whatever, but saying I don't like dance music is waaaay off target. I still have "Digital Love," "Face To Face" and "One More Time" on CD-R though, and I'm glad Scott Woods put "Bigger, Faster, Yadda, Strongo" on his Rough Guide To Vocoderism CD-R cuz it sounded better in that context.

but isn't the art of dance music PART of pop fun? In what way are they separate beasts?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

One question: why do you hate dance music?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

One question: why do you hate fun?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

ARGH! If anything this stuff doesn't strike me as dance enough! But I'm aggro (the six best tracks on Kish Kash blow this out of the water in Stevem's definition).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Does a beat have to be loud for it be danceable? Does loudness/hardness of the beat = danceability? Is that a modern idea? Surely Daft Punk's "vaseline" beats are a Disco throwback?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Haven't you ever felt the rhythm of dance grip you, CeCe?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's dress up as robots and go to his house.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

So why did they have to pump up the drumz for da clubz, then?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

disco had some hard ass fucking beats

p.s. discovery is not a dance album

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

it's more folktronica probably

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

at least this thread isn't as bad as the one where I asked if Discovery is supposed to be ironic

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

p.p.s. "da funk" and "muzique" and some others have drums/basslines that could shear your scalp off

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Disco sounds HARD compared to Daft Punk. Also more hooks, less fuck'with'dabeat'n'trace ballyhoo. But argh, this is why I was sitting on my hands. I'm just hungry to hear something about Daft Punk that isn't "I like x more than y." "I prefer z. But all are great!"

Admittedly, no one here is responsible for providing that. I'll sit on my hands again.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"Da Funk" is the JAM!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

disco had some hard ass fucking beats

Enter The Village People.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

haha x-post with Jess! And I really should hear Homework. I do like "Around The World!"

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

p.s. discovery is not a dance album

exactly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

and I'm dancing ALL THE TIME in my apt, Gear and Roxy. So come on down.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

'The Strongo Song' is easily one of my top 10 dancer tracks.

Everyone likes 'Around The World', even some of my hip hop mates.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Disco did have some hard ass beats, but it seems like things have gone in a kind of "hardness of the beat > everything" direction. A lot of 70s disco stuff, while delivering the beats, seems less beat you over the head to me than modern club music. More subtle and detached? I don't know.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

ok, so what IS Discovery aside from a Euro-brainy DETACHED look at pop fun that lacks the basic force that a lil' American headbanger like myself associates with dancing?

and everywhere where I bitched about Daft Punk I'm really bitching about Discovery. The three-four tracks I've kept were the ones that at least had pop hooks and a little less beat-fuckage monotony.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

do you hate nostalgia? (i ask this seriously.)

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are we talking about this album as if it wasn't always already the soundtrack to an anime movie about blue alien popstars.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but Discovery is music from the FUTURE

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE

― jess, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

YES

― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Jess I LOVE nostalgia (see recent posts about nu-wave on my blog), I just like it to be genuinely trashy, less...BECK. I probably would like the album more if I was sitting on my ass in a movie theater watching japanimation.

and I love how every time I complain about a song being "overegged" (a phrase I'm eternally grateful for Stevem bringing up on that Kish Kash thread where I was going all over the map instead of just admitting that the album as a whole struck me as crazy-busy) and overlong, people assume I can't dance to ANYTHING for a long time, something nobody who's seen me in a bar would imply.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

you haven't heard 'Around The World' until you've heard the '97 tour version.

Jaxx and DP represent for me the pinnacle of head+heart, fun+serious, dance+think, noise+song music. Who else can rival them for combining sonic invention (nobody can/does do what the Jaxx do, if they can I haven't heard it...no two bars the same, a different event every 4 beats, some subtle/missable even after 100 listens some unavoidably in yer face, a suitcase bursting with all kinds of ideas, Ratcliffe and Buxton sitting on top trying to keep it all in, and i think they manage to do this every time, preventing a complete mess - tho i know Miccio disagrees on this)

oh, same kinda true with Daft Punk of course, but in a different way

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Who else can rival them for combining sonic invention

...with quality popcraft

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

CeCe: this was my long drawn out ponder on why Discovery was great and not really a dance album, at the time of its release. It canvasses some of the issues you raise I think.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

it was actually Reynolds who described Kish Kash as overegged, to my chagrin, tho you did seem to feel the same way.

I still listen and dance to 'Good Luck' all the time, and I maintain that it comes incredibly close to just collapsing into chaos...but imo IT DOESN'T, and that's part of their genius

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I appreciate yer post Stevem, cuz if anything I'm missing the proggier, technical elements of this stuff, not the pop aspects. And I'll admit that both the Jaxx (who made some CLASSIC tracks in '03 I can now admit, I just tend to get anxious and jump for the next one with a minute still left) and Daft Punk are heads over heels better than many of their peers when it comes to combining popcraft with sonic invention.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

but if it doesn't want to make you dance there's nothing wrong about that at all. 'Get Free' doesn't make me want to dance, but I know it will some people.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Thing is that out of the fuckin' blue Britney Spears topped Kish Kash at its own game pop-wise and while ILX is smart enough to acknowledge the glory of "Toxic", most critics didn't give it the same creedence cuz the "artist" wasn't two nerds. It was JUST great pop, not primarily meant to be appreciated as some synthesis of art and fun.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean the only reason someone could argue "Toxic" didn't beat Kish Kash was that it wasn't COMPLEX enough so ha ha PROG.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

is it possible that BJ's intent is just fun and the way they're received by critics is fun+art because they can't get past the two nerds bit?

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Jaxx producing Britney would probably end up more like Corrina Joseph's 'Lonely' or 'Always Be There' - but her people would never have that

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Gear, judging by the last two minutes of their tracks, BJ's concept of fun is quite a bit proggier than pop.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

nothing per se is wrong with this, but I have to bring it up when I'm accused of hating fun.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Toxic could have fitted pretty well on Kish Kash.

Who else can rival them for combining sonic invention
...with quality popcraft

Well, you've seen your gmail...

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

(I was joking about the hating fun, obv.)

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

'Plug It In' and 'Toxic' are viciously battling to be my no. 1 single of the year.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Gear I don't think it's JUST fun because it seems clear they have very specific attitude to production. i get a stronger sense of 'this bit has to happen HERE, NOT THERE' and 'just throw that in there to make people go wtf some more' more than i ever did listening to Aphex or Autechre, but with that kind of approach you're often wondering how much is accident and how much is intentional and with all three artists I think it's generally a healthy mix of both. It also suggests a desire to do MORE than just make people dance and have fun, tho that's certainly the priority in both DP's and BJ's case (not with the Warp dudes, heh).

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

(I know, Roxy, but I've been thinking about this shit ever since that Kish Kash thread way back esp. since I CANNOT STOP PLAYING "LUCKY STAR" so I had to let it all hang out and explain, hopefully more politely and clearly than last time, why this stuff doesn't strike me as the pinnacle of pop goodness)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

and just to remind people as if they needed it, i'm as much about prog as i am about pop...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

but CeCe upthread you said, and I quote:

nothing per se is wrong with...hating fun.

-- CeCe Peniston (anthonymicci...), August 19th, 2004 5:13 PM.

which sort of confused me

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to say I don't like BJ all that much, I like DP a lot, and Junior Boys better than both, that is all!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

well it's not pure pop, what i am saying is it's this amazing convergence of pure pop philosophy and something else...blowing people's minds with fucked up sounds that demand dancefloor response basically

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

And Big&Rich?

xpost

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I need to hear this Junior Boys, though like with cult hit movies I'm almost afraid to.

I REALLY need to hear Big & Rich.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

ugh Roxy

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Save an assroomie, ride a couch.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Save a couch, ride a truck.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think toxic and aerodynamic are playing the same game, CeCe (though i think they're both winning). and DP's 'two nerds' status (i'm not sure however that this is quite how they're perceived) has prob done them more damage than good in the eyes of (non-euro?) critics, considering how common yr complaint about the 'joy-crushing layers of postmodern irony' was in so many discovery reviews, as ENRQ said somewhere way upthread. (ffwd to 2004 and marcello and richard x etc...)

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

oh man it's 3am and i'm skimming this and substituting daft punk for basement jaxx at random, just forget everything i said.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Daft Punk doll-things are finally here! Got this in my email this a.m.

http://www.daftpunk.com/banner-top.gif
Daft Hello !

We are proud to introduce to you the Limited Edition Interstella 5555 Figures box set .

Each box with its own unique printed serial number (xxxx of 5555) contains 5 colored figures of the main characters of Interstella 5555 with their instruments : Keyboards , Drums and Guitars all designed by Leiji Matsumoto and manufactured by the famous japanese toys company Banpresto.

But Watch out : Only 5555 boxes have been manufactured, and less than 4000 are for sale, exclusively on the daftpunk.com site, starting today. They are available for €55.55 (+ shipping costs) only from daftpunk.com

Check out daftpunk.com before it's too late ;)

The daft team

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

CREDIT CARD ONLY :(

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Who can I beg today?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

This is not the news I was hoping for from this revival

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, quit harshing our buzz and buy some goddamned dolls, Andrew.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Well um I'd LOVE TO, actually. Still I wanna new album!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

"Daft Hello"!?

― Shady Loch Lenin (haitch), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I know, Daft wtf.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm kind of weirded out by daft punk using the winky-face

― jones (actual), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

f-ck i got so excited there 4 a minute at the sight of this thread bouncing back up. come on where the f-ck are they?

― piscesboy, Monday, 6 September 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel ya Pisces

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk would like to announce no new music, but some figurines to go with that cartoon from last year. There you have it.

― ___ (___), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Gathered that much on my own actually

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Guys, obviously with the dolls out of the way they can start making ph4t b34ts again with a quickness.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

didn't anyone see this last year?
http://www.nme.com/news/106896.htm

― allfudgedup, Monday, 6 September 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://base58.com/ilx/omgdaftpunktoys.jpg

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

yey, i got mine this morning as well!

― zappi (joni), Friday, 17 September 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes!!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

omg...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

you were just using that as an excuse to take a picture of that ASS!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that, in fact, an ass?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 18 September 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Leave Ken his dreams.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Saturday, 18 September 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

More bad news (deep mournful sigh).

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Group 'ilXor' Forum > DAFT PUNK

alexfack

DAFT PUNK
I am all out of the loop but I was sent this today and maybe it is TRUE, maybe (if already widely-circulated news I apologise a bit)

Daft Punk to release 3rd studio album "Human After All" on March 21, 2005
through Labels / Virgin / EMI.

Daft Punk will release their first new studio album in four years on March
21, 2005 on Labels/ Virgin / EMI worldwide. Entitled "Human After All",
this is their third studio album to date and the follow-up to 2001's "Discovery".
Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem Christo recorded the ten tracks of
the new album in just six weeks between September and November 2004, in
their home studio in Paris.
The French electronic music duo came to worldwide attention in 1997, with
the release of their debut album ''Homework'', a huge critical and
commercial worldwide hit whose impact on the dance music industry was
revolutionary. In 2001, they released their second album, "Discovery", which
also became a global success and again broke ground musically and visually,
through the use of Japanese anime imagery and the portraying of the band as
robots.
As ever, the music is diverse and fresh whilst retaining their trademark
Daft Punk sound, this time with a more spontaneous and direct quality to the
recording. A mix of guitars and machines, "Human After All" takes us from
the hardcore ''Brainwasher'' to the pumping "Technologic'', with the
addition of rockier tracks such as "Robot Rock" and emotional moments such
as "Make Love".
Album Tracklisting in Full :
DAFT PUNK "HUMAN AFTER ALL"
1. HUMAN AFTER ALL
2. THE PRIME TIME OF YOUR LIFE
3. ROBOT ROCK
4. STEAM MACHINE
5. MAKE LOVE
6. THE BRAINWASHER
7. ON/OFF
8. TELEVISION RULES THE NATION
9. TECHNOLOGIC
10. EMOTION

― :| (....), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

from the ilxor audioscrobbler forum

― :| (....), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I hadn't heard about this, thank you.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

is this...TRUE???!!! no!!

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

doubtful

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

oh bollocks

http://www.nme.com/news/110884.htm

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel deeply ambivalent about the idea of Daft Punk discovering they're human after all.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah don't think much of these titles, or the idea it was all done in six weeks (considering how long the refining process of Discovery supposedly was). but i'm reminded how somewhat disappointed i was when i first heard Discovery and maybe this will have a reverse effect. perversely i hoped it was a hoax! but i couldn't really think of better titles for any new material from them anyway.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I am excited but you guys put a downer on it for me with your worry.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

tis the season!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

echoed. i kind of hoped it was a hoax...what's up with the title?

i keep thinking of that GAP ad aswell.

so dp are back, the avalanches are back...
it's like waking up in 2001 again.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

DANCE IS BA-OW!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

wot tim f said.

i would've liked DP to stick to one word titles, it seems fitting.

one more thing...

THE AVALANCHES ARE BACK? why wasn't i informed??

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

come on guys this is supposed to be good news!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!! The doubters' uppance will come!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

has anyone seen it reported anywhere other than nme.com yet? it's not even on the Virgin Music site The Raft it seems.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Buncha hataz!! :) Human, robot, dog, bacteria. Whatever. And only a very reasonalbe three months waiting period too!

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

omar! soulseek!! (i'd expect 1 month tops).

i'm off home 2 have a back2back DAFT CLUB/DISCOVERY fest.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah, SLSK is good for stuff like the new LCD Shitesystem. A new Daft Punk needs to be waited on till the official date of release and oldfashioned trip to the shop with "ah no, it still isn't in dude, maybe friday" style disappointments. Or is this just too 20th century? :(

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

tee hee "shite"

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

the day Discovery came out i'd only heard the first two tracks and i didn't even buy it until lunchtime after swanning down to V-SHop in Turnham Green and hearing 'Crescendolls' and 'Superheroes' blasting out. will be quite a different 'first listening' experience this time i imagine.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Daft Punk will be playing at my house.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

MY HOUSE!

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm mildly annoyed at the LCD appropriation of Daft Punk. I suspect he doesn't really *get* them anyway.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Like, I bet he's talking about "Da Funk" and not "Digital Love".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually I'm all about "Short Circuit", chumply

― Jimmy "Booty Clap" Murphy (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

That would make sense too. I'm still pretty confident that he'd consider much of their output and most house music in general, 'too gay'. It's the American disease.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Uh, not this American!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

How about asking him, Spence?

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

How about I don't really care, Nat?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, I'm kind of referencing that LCD thread which links to the WIRE interview (expanded, I think). Please note, I *really* like LCD Soundsystem, but I still think his use of their name is odd - I mean, he's hardly a Mongoloid.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

that LCD track sucks anyway

am i wrong to think 'Humanoise' is a better title? (don't answer that)

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe Still Human After All These Years?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

In League With The Humans

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

How about I don't really care, Nat?

if you care enough to speculate about it on a public forum, it's not that difficult a leap to make, y'know.

what is this about the Avalanches? details pls!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, when did it become a rule that we had to decisively determine an author's conscious intentions when speaking about what may be revealed by their work??!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, but who put the shovel up your ass?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway, WHAT IS THIS ABOUT THE AVALANCHES? c'mon Spencer, if anyone knows this it's gotta be you.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm serious. I think it's fully within reason to speculate on Murphy's views on dance music without actually asking him. I don't think that's a revolutionary concept. Also, what's with the "shovel up your ass" bit?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Ass for the Avalanches, they're definitely working on a new album, but I've only heard an extended snippet at the modularpeople.com site - and it's down now. I could send it to you of course - if I ever get this shovel out of my ass!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

spencer that murphy interview left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth too but i think you might be jumping to conclusions in re: whether dude appreciates daft punk in the "correct" manner

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno?!?!?!?! maybe your punctuation?!?!?!?!?! made it look like you're taking it more personally than I meant it?!?!??! (OK I'll stop now)

anyhow, it is reasonable to speculate, but it's also reasonable to ask if maybe there's more (or less) to know in fact-not-theory. no one's mad here (or I thought you were and I was wrong); I was just trying to be evenhanded.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

also people who are not dickish can easily come across as if they are in interview transcripts.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I wasn't mad at all!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

and no, I haven't read the interview yet (the new issue isn't out in Seattle yet, grrr--we get magazines really late most of the time as it is); maybe if I had I'd be more inclined to be annoyed w/Murphy myself. that, and "right" and "wrong" ways of listening tend to be a bit of a sore spot for me, for whatever reason. that's where I misread you, S.C.--apologies.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

matos the unedited transcript of the interview in question is on the lcd thread (oh wait--probably not anymore!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost
None necessary! My sore spot at the moment is when dance music is being accepted grudgingly by corny indie types. There was a link to the unedited interview on a lost LCD thread where he completely dismisses the Happy Mondays and Primal Scream (I'm assuming Screamadelica), two bands who much more wholeheartedly embraced "dance music".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i wouldn't neccessarily read that as a blanket dismissal of dance music tho--i mean maybe he just doesn't like those bands!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost
That thread also contained all sorts of qualifying statements about how big a fan I am of LCD Soundsystem.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, it appears not to be there, just a disco ball leading us to the new video.

I've had the album a week but have been so wrapped up in year-end shit I haven't played it yet. (also, it's copy protected, which means I have to drag out a regular CD player I barely use anymore, ugh ugh rigamarole who needs it.) I will play it soon, however--gotta review it for someone.

xpost: I have to say, I'm not much of a Mondays or Primal Scream fan myself--they have singles I like, but that's not the same thing as liking them as bands. I'd definitely say that most of that stuff was and remains really overrated. that's just me, though--I'm not gonna assume that's necessarily what Murphy meant.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

and the key word of Spencer's post is "grudgingly," it should be said.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"It was something that Tim and I never pushed and weren't very interested in. That stuff was meaningless to me. I thought it was shit. At the time that stuff came out, I was like, 'This is crap'. I remember hearing 'Fool's Gold' and thinking it was really likeable and that a lot of college kids would like it, but it was like Vitamin C to me without the weird, crazy Japanese guy. It just never meant anything to me. I was in an American world at that time. I like some of it now looking back at it, but it's not a touchstone for me at all. I think they got kind of interested in that stuff. I think aesthetically a lot of that stuff is really meandering and unclear and all over the place."

Key words: "was"; "looking back at it"

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

spence he doesn't completely dismiss happy mondays or primal scream, the interviewer mentions how the rapture name those bands as touchstones and asks him if he feels the same and he responds that they didn't really mean anything to him at the time, that he was listening to other music, that he liked "fools gold" well enough, and that he likes some of it now. he hardly dismisses madchester as much as the pixies or pavement (he's blathers on some anti-scene rhetoric in general, so maaybe that could be taken as anti-madchester); english mag asks american artist is english artists were a "touchstone" and american artist responds 'not really' /= the trash talk it's been made out to be.

xpost

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Last line of the article: "I also like Terry Riley a lot, not like a dillettante, this is something I love."

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

blount otm

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean are both rock reactions/interactions with dance culture? - yeah, but they're fairly different reactions, different fashion, drugs, not NEARLY the hippy vibe around murphy as with yr average bagboy.

nate i hope to god that's the last line of the article, you can just see his gears working there 'right the wire, hmm, ok i know what i'll say...'

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not into reformulating everything I posted on the lost thread, but I will say again that I'm not surprised at his remarks. I'll also repeat that the discomfort with dance music that I sense is what makes LCD Soundsystem so interesting and great anyway. He's at least engaging with the Other which I suspect attracts and repulses him.

(also, this all started with a discussion of the cover).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Which, with it's xeroxed disco ball, several times removed from the glitter, maintains its ironic distance.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it could also mean "glitter can be diy too!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

how has this thread become about LCD?! when surely 'Human After All' is the biggest news for ILM folk (apart from all those Radiohead fans hyuck hyuck) for nearly 5 years?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Also Matos, "right" and "wrong" ways of listening are accusations I would NEVER, EVER make.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

In other words, I'm very glad he loves Daft Punk, however, I'm curious as to which tracks he loves (and I have my suspicions). I should not have said "*get*".

Also, Steve is CORRECT.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

However, I'm unsure as to what to say about it. I fully expect to be amazed musically and conceptually and I doubt the value of even speculating about how they're going to turn my world upside down!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

thing w/Daft Punk is that I can't even expect they'll floor me again; I just have to wait and see. that's what I do w/Basement Jaxx, too.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

so were you saying you had their album or LCD's?

speaking of Basement Jaxx, they've got a new track on their site which is pretty neat, the vocalist sounds a bit like Shystie at times

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link

some people think i'm shy
some people think i'm nasty
but if you really want to know just ask me
and i'll say i'm shystie

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

and they say UK rhymes is wack!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

so yes just to confirm, the new Daft Punk album will feature collaborations and appearances from James Murphy, Basement Jaxx and Shystie.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

daft punk feat. shystie and michel'le "me shystie, u nicety (morgan geisty remix)"

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently they turned down offers from The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Primal Scream.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

they completely dismissed them! (cf. future b-side "groovy train down the drain (fraiser crane remix)")

― jblount, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Turned down offers for what? Crack?

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

(OK, that's strickly a Mondays joke, but hey)

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i hope 'Human After All' is the conclusion they make after an album full of robots and vocoders.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd rather they just dressed up as chairs (to go with that table they designed). 'Inanimate Objects, Would You Ow You Say Adam And Eve It?' to look forward to in 2008.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the snag with the title is that it's *been done*. on the last track of the felix da housecat lp, there's that track 'neon human' on which (thru a semi-human sounding vocoder) the warm voice but weary lyrics give a first person account of a robot wanting to be a human, having been a robot for so long. this idea of returning to humanity, shedding yr robot-skin is last year's HOTT dance thing! gah!

whoever's in charge of the VIRGIN press release ('from the hardcore BRAINWASHER to the pumping TECHNOLOGIC...') wants shooting.

nevertheless i cant wait 4 the record.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh it's a rub press release and the same thing is appearing on more sites now (Launch...) but still not The Raft! that's just weird incompetence surely.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

"Neon Human"? Try Numan's "Metal". (Which was just rerecorded this year. With Afrika Bambaataa. And nobody told me?!)

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

stevem that 'ow you say adam and eve it' line made me laff!

― jimblountski, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

english mag asks american artist if english artists were a "touchstone" and american artist responds 'not really' /= the trash talk it's been made out to be.

this is why I hate LCD Soundsystem, can we have a moratorium on this sort of country wars crap. the word english just fucking leaps out of that sentence. I mean so what if an English magazine asks him were English artists a touchstone, IT'S AN ENGLISH MAGAZINE.

You bad toothed British fuckers weren't influencing our indie when we saved your limey asses in the war huh! NO SIR!

I mean "I was in an American world at that time", yes at THAT time! There comes a point when this sort of insular crap just grates beyond being able to ignore it, perhaps that point is to do with further political happenings.

I mean you very seldom hear English people being so casually but staunchly patriotic, and actually so obliviously too. It's just sickening, there's a whole world out there and I can't be arsed listening to artists who are part of just one great glob in it, and revel in that, consciously or otherwise.

Or to quote Jess "I'd be perfectly happy for dance music to be made by gay guys in basketball shirts forever".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

not that half the LCD album isn't just alt-rock by any other name anyway, I'd rather listen to Screamadelica any fucking day of the week.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

And the stupendous laugh your ass off part about all this is that Tim Goldsworthy was in Unkle!! If they weren't the food laden drain off in the gigantic washing up basket of early 90s British baggy indie then I don't know what was!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I was not in an American world at that time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

not exclusively...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

We have baseball and Van Halen, we don't need you

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Friday, 24 December 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, Daft Punk aren't *really* "human after all", surely they're just going through a Data-like period of emotion chipitude or something!

TEH EXCITEMENT

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 24 December 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

surely they're just going through a Data-like period of emotion chipitude

im a bit afraid theyll come out of it playing covers of beach boys songs.

― :| (....), Saturday, 25 December 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I shed a tear of joy when I heard the news, seriously. Finally, I can say there's an album coming out in 2005 that I'm actually looking forward to hearing.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Saturday, 25 December 2004 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link

"And the stupendous laugh your ass off part about all this is that Tim Goldsworthy was in Unkle!! If they weren't the food laden drain off in the gigantic washing up basket of early 90s British baggy indie then I don't know what was!"

Goldworthy left Unkle even before they produced their first album and was almost singlehandedly responsible for their best stuff.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway Tim Goldworthy isn't in LCD Soundsytem.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

... and i cant find ANY reference to Primal Scream in that LCD Interview.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone's on the ball!

homework = 1997
discovery = 2001
new one = 2005?
-- jess

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link

omg he must have a palantir or something

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are you people worried about the sound of this record? Of course there's gonna be vocoders and robotic beats and shit! One of the songs is called "Robot Rock"!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a modified cover of Sade's "Lover's Rock", though.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

no, superpitcher's!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 December 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i really love vocoders.

― Crapstone (Crapstone), Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

how long be4 the download? what, days or weeks do we think?

god i've missed them, and a real pining is kicking in about now.

― piscesboy, Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

gahhhhhh!!! i can't wait any longer!!!

i keep typing HUMAN AFTER ALL into slsk and up comes an old Level 42 album.

salt, wounds etc.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

that's actually it. they're using the slap bass more. half fo Alan Braxe's productions sound like 'Running In The Family' anyway so the guys just went the whole hog.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, that sounds exactly like Sebastien Tellier's last album (which is awesome).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Specifically "Wonderafrica" which is wild.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

The promo single has been leaked. It's also called "Human After All." It's pretty great. Cowbells and very thick + buzzy analogue synths.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I've heard that and I suspect it's fake. There's no tune at all. I sort of like it, but I can't imagine it being a single - more like bonus beats.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh yeh. it's fake. i have pie all over my face... and i thought the scarlet fever rash was enough.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Matt, I do suspect that it is actually Daft Punk who made it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Hang on - I thought the file Matt mistook for it was actually Alter Ego's 'Rocker'?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

it is! I just downloaded Alter Ego's "Transphormer" and Rocker it is. Quite good.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i think spencer means that daft punk enjoy "rocker" and are trying to popularize it?? i'm sort of wary of conclusions like that but it's nice to pretend that your favorite artists enjoy the same things you do.

OTOH their franz ferdinand remix strongly suggests they've been keeping up with tracks like "rocker"

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no, I thought it was they who made the spoof track. I stand corrected too!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

So anyway, last week I bought "Skitzo Dancer", the latest single from Parisian band Scenario Rock. Best track is the remix by Justice which, wait for it, is credited with sound polishing by Thomas Bangalter for B.A.S.S.. So that's something, whatever it is.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i think b.a.s.s. is the name of hubert "boom bass" blanc-francard's mastering studio? he's the guy who's in cassius with phillipe zdar.

i say this because there's a sticker that reads "b.a.s.s." on the back of the motorbass album and i once tracked down the meanings of all those stickers and some were from different clubnights in paris and some were from studios/crews involved in the album.

sorry this is a bit trainspottery but this sort of thing fascinates me, can anybody corroborate my spotty (haha) data?

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=CD&title=912404&p=34&g=48&pa=sr

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

That has to be one of the most pointless "best of" collections ever. Even beating Leftfield's recent effort.

If you're gonna get two discs, er... Homework & Discovery at mid-price maybe?

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Customers who bought Musique Vol. 1: 1993-2005 (With Bonus DVD) also bought

Daft Punk - Alive 1997
Various - Ultimate Chillout Classics Album (6CD)
Daft Punk - Daft Club
Sepultura - Roots
Headman - On

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

What's that Parliament remix?

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

its the one with the video that has a cgi Bootsy Collins flying around in disco hyperspace and stuff. at least five years old

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

The "point", probably, is to leave Virgin EMI...

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Is the bonus DVD all of the videos? That might make it worth it....

― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

It isn't, and their two DVDs put together cost less than a new CD already (no jabbering baby robot heads, though)

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

You know, lots of people have complained about the last Daft Punk album ... from James Murphy on Pitchfork down to the many, many ILMers and bloggers ... but in retrospect, short as it may be at this point, hasn't a lot of the other shit people are psyched on been derived from that output OR nearly the same?

Alter Ego - Rocker (remember when this leaked as "Human After All"?)
Justice
Digitalism
a ton of other guitar driven electro shit.

p.s. "Stream Machine" was like the sickest fucking Suicide rip-off ever. Not that all of "Human After All" was solid, but it wasn't bad! There were some really solid tracks ...

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ugh i hate all that farty justice stuff, really does not do it for me, just like this album

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't forget Busta!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Leaving Virgin or not, no "Digital Love" on a DP greatest hits collection ain't a DP greatest hits collection.

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Too right.

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

The show at Coachella was easily the best concert I have *ever* seen. The lights, my god, the lights. It was like a constantly shifting star gate sequence from 2001 crossed with Tron, all perfectly choreographed to the most amazing mash up of all their hits with really intense edits and pacing. They appear as robots on the screens, and they seem to be talking to each other, but can they really hear each other? Did they just push one button? Are they using Ableton? Who knows. Who cares? Just amazing.

― i'm from hollywood, Monday, 1 May 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

HI GUY ;)

― city of gyros (chaki), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

^I'm so jealous.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXHIqhfLtw&search=daft%20punk%20coachella

looks like fun.

― Two Scoops (Magic Duster), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/Picture059.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/bcdc1599.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/Picture018.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/Picture091.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/67b3ec94.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/Picture100.jpg

― i'm from hollywood, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

my god. my life seems so small + pointless now.

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link

never have i wanted to be somewhere more than there :/

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

omg just watched the clip where they do Technologic vs Oh Yeah

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

think it may be worth going to Global Gathering in July just to see them!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

new material?

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link

seemingly no

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

not doing much to disprove the notion that global could have taken place in 1999...

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, it's very Britcentric. but they do have Digitalism, Justice blah blah lower down the list tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoah...

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish

the global thing can be crazy expensive. VIP?

no single night tix, either?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe in due course

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

my god. my life seems so small + pointless now.

hahaha, so otm.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, in regards to my life. i am not making any judgments about your life.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y207/secretpublic/bcdc1599.jpg

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I meant to add, that is my new desktop background. Ever time I hide an application I cry a little bit inside.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

would def consider GG, if they do day tix

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

oh my good god.

yeah global all the way for me now. good fckng gracious.

― pisces, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm mainly posting these as a service to those who have the chance to see them. DO NOT MISS IT.

― i'm from hollywood, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow great pics!

― van igloo (van smack), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

All found via flickr. Also read that they were using synths, midi controllers and ableton.

― i'm from hollywood, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

new film on it's way!!!

http://culturecafe.midiblogs.com/archive/2006/05/04/cannes-2006-les-premiere-images-de-daft-punk%E2%80%99s-electroma.html

vaguely: "Daft Punk's 'Electroma' is visual and musical and which follows the history of two robots in their search to become human."

http://culturecafe.midiblogs.com/images/medium_electroma_1.jpg

http://culturecafe.midiblogs.com/images/medium_electroma_2.jpg

http://culturecafe.midiblogs.com/images/medium_electroma_3.jpg

http://culturecafe.midiblogs.com/images/medium_electroma_4.jpg

http://culturecafe.midiblogs.com/images/medium_electroma_5.jpg

― i'm from hollywood, Monday, 8 May 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

that looks amazing.

anyway, what's with the re-issue of "human after all" coming out tomorrow?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Hehehe, I should have guessed my source would have been here already. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

And can someone remind me? Wasn't 'Human After All' a huge dud? Is all forgiven?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

it was all sung in english, as far as I can remember, so what's the prob?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

New Human After All--"Japan-only Remix Album, Will Include Remix(Es) Previously Unavailable on CD. Featured Remixers Are Soulwax, Emperor Machine, Peaches, Playgroup, Basement Jaxx, Digitalism, Sebastian, Alter Ego, and More. Ltd. edition features two bonus figurines designed by Medicom Toy Co. Kubrick collection."

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

there's an amateur video of the entire coachella performance making its way around the torrent sites (themixingbowl.org and others)

the video's not top quality but the performance sure is

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The new er... direction of Daft Punk makes a lot more sense after seeing the single videos somehow. Almost makes it seem like they were first to the supposed trend going on in french house (wot I read about on Stylus... apart from Uffie I've heard like, _none_ of it yet) everyone going for a more rock-inclined in-the-red repetetive brutality in their tracks.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

/heads over to justice myspace to check "the fuss" late as ever..

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

all image and no substance. i still don't get the love for daft punk.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

the supposed trend going on in french house is more than ten years old!

― FLOWING STRAIGHT FROM THE SURVIVAL SCROLL (vahid), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link

what makes you think there is no substance, frenchbloke? i'm not sure what you mean exactly. no depth to the music? or what depth there is is jsut derived from other things?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

hearing snippets of their live set in Ireland down the phone now courtesy of kv_nol. soundin' GOOOOOOD.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

They've added a new member and are now called Sensus, apparently.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

that video was awesome!

not

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Adding a house beat to that would make it the best thing ever.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link

WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?
WITHOUT A REAL ATMOSPEHRE?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

So, who's going????

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

sure why not

― blueski, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Daft Punk at Red Rocks?

― sexyDancer, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

LA tickets went on sale?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i got some!

― max, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"internet presale" at ticketmaster--use the code "robots"

― max, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Given my money flow I might have to see if someone can snag one for me (with the promise of paying back after my paycheck's in on Thursday).

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been daydreaming about quitting my job etc and following them around like they're the Grateful Dead or something.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Follow your bliss, I say.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Europe:
06-10 Inverness, Scotland @ Loch Ness (RockNess Festival)
06-14 Paris, France @ Bercy
06-16 London, UK @ Hyde Park as part of the "02 Wirless Fest" (via Pollstar)
06-17 Leeds, UK @ the Harewood House (via Pollstar)
07-08 Naas, IRE @ the Punchestown Race Course as part of the Oxegen Festival (via Pollstar)

U.S.:
07-21 Los Angeles, CA @ LA Memorial Sports Arena
07-27 Berkeley, CA @ the Greek Theatre*
07-29 Seattle, WA @ the WAMU Center* (pre-sale starts 3/22)
07-31 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks* (pre-sale starts 3/24)
08-05 Toronto, Ontario @ Arrow Hall*
08-07 Montreal, Quebec @ Bell Center*
08-09 New York, NY @ Keyspan Park*

*w/ the Rapture

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

tickets got. psyched!

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 March 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy shit!

No, no, no. HOLY SHIT!

OMG.

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 March 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sort of sad that the Rapture aren't playing the LA date, but we get Sebastian.

― max, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

50 bucks... pffff to that.

― chaki, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

And my euphoria comes crashing to the ground.

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

50 bucks... pffff to that.

My exact thought, I gotta admit.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm...apparently the Seattle show's only $40, but that's still much steeper than I'd like.

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

gotta pay for giant flashing techno pyramids somehow

― sexyDancer, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Their Coachella performance was easily the best concert I've ever experienced. People pay huge sums to see terrible bands (way more than $50). This will be well worth it.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Face value tickets for:

Police = $260, $98.50, $52
Josh Groban = $99 / $75 / $45 / $35
Killers = $45, $35, $29.50
Keith Urban = $79.50 / $69.50 / $47.50

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You could save $5 and see Josh Groban.

Seriously, they are the only group that made Coachella worth the money last year.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with Spencer. I bought tickets to the Seattle show last night and I gotta say, it felt like a bargain.

But I have been really desperate to see them for a ling time.

― Scott CE, Friday, 23 March 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yah well im not going to coachella either.

― chaki, Friday, 23 March 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Supposedly they're playing Lolla this year too. That will definitely make my early-bird $60 tickets worth it.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 23 March 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

if they don't come to australia i will cry blood.

― haitch, Saturday, 24 March 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://photos-497.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/209/105/14500014/n14500014_30411497_9070.jpg

― max, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Playing UK and Irish festivals towards the end of June and beginning of July? Conspicuous hole in the touring schedule over the last weekend of June? YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, DON'T YOU?

― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

...Poptimism appearance?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

hearing snippets of their live set in Ireland down the phone now courtesy of kv_nol. soundin' GOOOOOOD.

OMG I was so bladdered, sorry again man.

Can't see them in Ireland as already sold out. Gutted is me.

― kv_nol, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i still don't understand the fuss!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

someone must have linked this already, but:

daft punk, studio geniuses

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:01 (seventeen years ago) link

genius steals. it makes me like them even more.

gotta love the fact that sampling STILL gets up certain people's noses after all these years, judging from the comments on you tube.

― pisces, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah but they don't even rap over it

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I'm listening back to Human After All and I have to say I love it now! Not what I was expecting/hoping for at the time but a pretty lovable record in retrospect, I think...

Looking fwd to the 02 Wireless gig in June...

― braveclub, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.lemonland.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/daftcovers2.jpg

― roxymuzak, Monday, 2 February 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link

the concert was so worth 50 bucks by the way, and i wasnt even on any drugs

― max, Monday, 2 February 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

one of the best video's of all time?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw

― Bee OK, Thursday, 15 October 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Which version of the song is that one?

― Moka, Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh nevermind.

― Moka, Thursday, 15 October 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

This is a hoax, isn't it?

― James Mitchell, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link

Probably. More dates:

http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/viewnews.aspx?newsID=3736

― StanM, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link

on the other hand, it IS on (their?) last.fm page

http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk/+events

― StanM, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link

Anyone can add things to artists' last.fm pages, so I wouldn't take it as confirmation. However it's been about 2 years since they've toured, so the timing is about right. At least it's not at the O2.

― Jill, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link

When they denied that (Singapore?) show in February, they said they were looking to tour in 2010/2011.

― StanM, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link

The mix of huge and not-so-huge venues is a little suspicious.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link

And only one US date...

― James Mitchell, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link

not-so-huge venues

They're even playing in someone's house!

― StanM, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link

oh *please* let this be real.

― Bill A, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link

TRON 2 is coming out in Dec 2010 so these dates which starts end of July (ie post-Comic Con) through fall are def within the right timeframe of a massive promo tour. awesome if true.

― Roz, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Surely the most obvious issue with this is that the alledged gig in Manchester is on a Saturday, during September, when the footy season has begun!

http://www.erolalkan.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=377960#p377960

― James Mitchell, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i just looked through the list again and olympic park stadium as the venue in melbourne? not bloody likely.

― Roz, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link

>the alledged gig in Manchester is on a Saturday

It says Monday 6 September 2010 on that datatransmission page.

― Bill A, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link

TOUR DENIAL
11 Feb 2009 | from www.daftalive.com
DENIAL. Daft Punk is not playing in Shangri.
The band are not touring this year, and at no point were they approached for this show, and at no point was there ever a possibility that they would do such a show.
The band and those around them were made aware of the scam in the last day or so, and are very upset that there are crooks out there trying to rip off the bands loyal fans.
All daft punk shows are announced on the bands official my space sight, and we urge fans to check the sight before purchasing tkts for shows.
The band's representatives are currently looking into what future action can be taken regarding the fraudsters responsible for the current scam
Daft punk look forward to visiting and performing in china as part of their next world tour, in 2010 or 2011.

― tomofthenest, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link

im guessing that date's meant to be 2nd Nov 09

― just sayin, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link

I think it's from a different ticket scam earlier in the year. These hoaxers have form.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Yep, that was in February.

― StanM, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/1607238.jpg

One of the links ^up there identifies this dude as the evil genius behind today's hoax.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link

If that watering can robot head is growing out of his head then he might well be part of the Daft Punk crew.

― StanM, Monday, 2 November 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link

No way in hell are Daft Punk playing Yankee Stadium.

― billstevejim, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^^^
OTM

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link

Just for shits and giggles:

http://mlb.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=nyy&m=8&y=2010

There's no game that night, but there is the following day which would mean a 0.00001% chance of them being able to pull off a show there.

I've seen Daft Punk in smaller (2,000) and larger (8,000) capacity venues and although they deserve it, there's no way there going to play in a 50,000+ stadium.

― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 November 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link

The Yankees have moved across the road, though - I understand that the old stadium is being maintained purely for Daft Punk concerts

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Doesn't mean it's any truer, but the NME are reporting this now.

― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Friday, 20 November 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh come one NME, do you even try to verify the shit you report now. I say it again, no fucking way is Daft Punk playing Yankee fucking Stadium.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 November 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Disappointed they left out the gig at that 150,000-capacity stadium in Pyongyang.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 November 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Unreleased track from '94, really raw and heavy:

http://soundcloud.com/soma/daft-punk-drive-unreleased

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Sunday, 18 September 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link

heard on good word that james murphy is producing new DP stuff

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 18 September 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link

ah yes, back when daft punk were tough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xec55UOHtxw

― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Sunday, 18 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link

heard on good word that james murphy is producing new DP stuff

― J0rdan S., Sunday, September 18, 2011 3:19 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I can't figure out if this is a good thing or not.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Sunday, 18 September 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

To me, it seems, it is not.

― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 18 September 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link

v interested in theory, but has Murphy produced much / are his collaborative skills going to bring much with/out of electronic producers, rather than bands recording through amps? There’s the first Juan Maclean album, but that’s probably heavily Goldsworthy, as far as hands-on production goes, I’d guess.

― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link

I wouldn't assume that, considering Murphy and Maclean go way back pre-DFA and Murphy brought Maclean into the DFA fold.

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link

(Plus, I'm pretty sure I've heard Juan talk about James being fairly hands-on with his stuff.)

― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link

maybe he is going to try to do "human after all" but good.

― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 19 September 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link

I know, but Murphy could have been bro-ing out and arranging and suggesting things, while Goldsworthy pushed buttons, is what I was thinking

― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Monday, 19 September 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link

five months pass...

So I guess, this dude can be added to Jams Murphy and Nile Rodgers on the list of rumored Daft Punk collaboraters

http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/16/daft-punk-working-with-veteran-songwriter-paul-williams/

― The Reverend, Saturday, 17 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

This dude! Paul Williams is more than that, then again I am Mr. Grew Up With the Muppets and all.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

daft punk dudes i think are the next kevin shields

― the late great, Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link

these guys are like 35 now, they already released a statement of feeling sort of over this shit w/ "human after all", and it's hard to imagine what they could do to top the space pyramid shit

― the late great, Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

I was all '35?' and then I checked and went uh a bit. Somehow I had it in my head they were always a little older than me!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link

once you build a pyramid, you're p much done-- ask the egyptians or the aztecs

― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link

Didn't stop Dick Clark.

― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 17 March 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

they're MY age??

*lies down on floor and hyperventilates*

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link

if it makes anybody feel any better, the last time they wrote a good song they were...24?

― iatee, Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link

35?! They're practically ready for their Rick Rubin moment.

― henry s, Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link

only a sex tape scandal can make them relevant again

― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah but it would look something like this:

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/covers/black-sabbath-technical-ecstasy.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link

daft punk/mbv collab would be wicked overhyped, never get past the demo stage, and i'd be all over it.

― all things must pass (shaane), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link

they're MY age??

*lies down on floor and hyperventilates*

otm

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

maybe they're working on a time machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBr524HaaCU

― the late great, Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

Robot House! (futurama voice)

― StanM, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

Disco legend Giorgio Moroder ha revealed that he recorded a “rap” for the new Daft Punk album. During a one-on-one interview at International Music Summit in Ibiza, the producer behind genre-defining songs such as “I Feel Love” and “The Chase” revealed that he recently went into the studio with the French duo.

The robots asked the Munich Machine to go into a vocal booth and speak about his life. In the studio were multiple microphones of various vintages from the ’60s to today. When Moroder asked the engineer why they had so many mics, he replied that the mic they would use would depend on what decade of his life he was speaking about. When Moroder asked if anyone would know the difference, the engineer replied “They will know.”

― mizzell, Friday, 25 May 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link

hahahahaha

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Friday, 25 May 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

lollll

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 25 May 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link

i *want* to believe.

― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 25 May 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

wow.

― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

I kind of like that their using this album as an opportunity to work with all their heroes.

― The Reverend, Monday, 28 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

new album shd be have a collab track with each artist named in "teachers"

― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link

― The Reverend, Monday, 28 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link

i *want* to believe.

― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, May 25, 2012 7:52 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 28 May 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Just read on the Popjustice forum that there is supposed to be a new single next month called Remona Street.

French magazine 'Tsugi' confirmed the duo will premier the new single July 21st.

I really hope this is true.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link

because the last 10 years of daft punk have been so amazing?

― the late great, Thursday, 28 June 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43Ate3Itjs

This is pretty great. Don't have it right here to compare, but if memory serves this is very close to the live version they rocked on Alive 97.

― andrew m., Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link

Urrrr, massive clipboard fail!

This is the intended link:

http://www.feelmybicep.com/2012/07/02/daft-punk-da-funk-serge-santiago-unreleased-live-mix/

― andrew m., Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link

French magazine 'Tsugi' confirmed the duo will premier the new single July 21st.

It was a joke. (English below the French text here) -> http://www.tsugi.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7159

― StanM, Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

heh

― the late great, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

haha andrew m with the excellent unintended slam there

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 7 July 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, that was pretty harsh until i read the next post!

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 7 July 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link

that was amazing

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 9 July 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link

I have a Daft Punk related question. I remember that before Discovery was released, a number of tracks were leaked online. Some were not actually DP tracks, and some were early versions of what ended up on Discovery. This collection is now floating around online as Discovery (beta version).

When I bought a copy of the proper album, I was actually a little disappointed, because I thought the beta versions sounded better, or like they were going in a better direction. I downloaded the beta version, recently, but the track missing from it, that I really want, is the demo version of Face to Face.

In this version, the samples are rearranged differently and the only lyrics from Todd Edwards are 'What's going on? Could this by my understanding?'

If anyone could point me to where I could find this rare bootleg I would be very grateful.

― 3×5, Saturday, 14 July 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/its-as-good-as-anything-ive-ever-done-nile-rodgers-talks-working-with-daft-punk

― REV LION (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.mixmag.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/article/images/mixmag-status-daft_punkV4.jpeg

― REV LION (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

it's
beautiful

― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

I hope he shreds hard

― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link

excited and nervous

― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link

have they apologized for tron yet?

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link

yes but in the middle of their mea culpa, they vomited up wads of hundred dollar bills

― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link

how did you see them through the masks

― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link

i presume it was kind of like an out of control ATM

― Number None, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

their LCD displays kept flashg dollar signs

― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43Ate3Itjs

― fuck google analytics (am0n), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

Still funny!

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 2 August 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q55ELwJiCt4

― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 26 November 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

This is WAY more fun than it should be
http://codepen.io/kowlor/full/MYOKRd/

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Their Junior Kimbrough remix is getting a Record Store Day release: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8428

― There was a hole bunch of problems whit his campaigns (crüt), Monday, 21 March 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link

that font is horrendous though

― There was a hole bunch of problems whit his campaigns (crüt), Monday, 21 March 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

ghost of an '80s ford mustang ad embedded in their new merch ad:

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/DP2.jpg
http://www.adbranch.com/ford-magazine-ads-from-1980s/ford_mustang_a_sports_car_1980/

― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link

nice retro memorabilia ad campaigns. but id rather hear some new music.

― StillAdvance, Friday, 8 July 2016 09:35 (seven years ago) link

Wtf are they even selling with that ad? I read it twice and I still can't figure it out.

― Tuomas, Friday, 8 July 2016 09:53 (seven years ago) link

i dont think they are selling anything. i went to the site and found nothing. just more adverts lol.

so they just like designing and running adverts.

advertising for its own sake.

unless they are soon to start selling wooden boxes and crowbars.

― StillAdvance, Friday, 8 July 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link

oops.

nope, they are selling clothes. and $80 towels. and mugs, hoodies, etc etc.

― StillAdvance, Friday, 8 July 2016 10:42 (seven years ago) link

"Were you parents totally confused seeing you..."

Quality proofreading.

― nashwan, Friday, 8 July 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link

Heads up, I heard the new Daft Punk coffee mug just leaked. Supposed to be pretty good ...

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 July 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link

xp
I mean, it's just photoshop, so it's not like they have to recall thousands of posters.

(and it is fixed now)

― Dominique, Friday, 8 July 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9n5Lmc7Hg

― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link

fake?

― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link

Probably.

― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link

It's not at all related to their latest release, aesthetically and sonically, so yeah, I doubt it's a real thing...
+ why touring now, years after RAM and without any new release in sight ?

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 13 January 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link

cuz they always tour once a decade and it's now a "7" year?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 13 January 2017 09:26 (seven years ago) link

And they always release something every four years and RAM was 2013!

― Frederik B, Friday, 13 January 2017 09:33 (seven years ago) link

Wtf! RAM was indeed released 2013! I had to doublecheck. Fuck you time.

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Friday, 13 January 2017 09:38 (seven years ago) link

What did they release in 2009?

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 January 2017 09:42 (seven years ago) link

Tron OST was released 2010

― groovemaaan, Friday, 13 January 2017 09:46 (seven years ago) link

i count the live album from 09.

― Frederik B, Friday, 13 January 2017 09:55 (seven years ago) link

So, a surprise release this year ?

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 13 January 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link

Dropped on 7/07 !

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 13 January 2017 10:04 (seven years ago) link

i count the live album from 09.

What live album?

― Tuomas, Friday, 13 January 2017 10:14 (seven years ago) link

The live album, that they released.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link

they didn't release a live album in 09, or did they ?

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 13 January 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link

Nah, turns out it's from 07. But turns out, they've released the livealbums Alive 1997 and Alive 2007, so...

― Frederik B, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link

have they toured RAM at all?

― frogbs, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link

no tour.
a tour with all the guests from RAM would be something ! (impossible)
still the momentum is quite gone, by now, 3y after the release of RAM.
that said, 2007 was 2y after HAA, so who knows...

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link

a Daft tour is its own thing, builds its own momentum. They don't need to tour behind an album

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 13 January 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link

What did they release in 2009?

Didn't they plan for an album for 2009, but scrapped it because they didn't like the direction it was heading, and also got busy with the Tron soundtrack work? Or maybe I'm totally making things up in my head.

Anyways, Daft Punk is the type of group whose fan base totally likes to make things up and generate fake hype, so it's not surprising that there is an Alive 2017 teaser.

― MarkoP, Friday, 13 January 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, a DP tour this year would be absolutely huge, even four years on from the last album and regardless of whether or not there's a new record

― groovypanda, Friday, 13 January 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link

not very funny and mostly sad to read my obnoxious pro daft punk ranting of 12 years ago

daft punk are so awful now and represent so much awful culture now in my mind, it's hard to believe

sorry to be all "old man yells at clouds.jpg" but there you go

still, i think i will always have time for solo bangalter and crydamoure productions of the 90s

― the late great, Saturday, 14 January 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link

Homework is 20 years old today

http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/19/daft-punk-homework-mix-teachers/

― groovypanda, Friday, 20 January 2017 10:12 (seven years ago) link

warm up for the tour ?

http://pitchfork.com/news/71078-grammys-2017-daft-punk-performing-with-the-weeknd/

― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 10:54 (seven years ago) link

weekend collabo is awful. wish they werent performing it too.

― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link

I like "Feel It Coming". one of the few things I like from the Weeknd, actually !

― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link

i feel it coming is my 4 y/o's favorite song right now

― if young satchmo don't trumpet i'm gon shoot you (m bison), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

the official or mint-condition unofficial instrumental of "I Feel It Coming" is worth a listen: https://dbr.ee/8LRt

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link

Nice!

― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 06:50 (seven years ago) link

ahh, that's great. much better than the vocal version.

― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 07:02 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

New Daft Punk in May? pic.twitter.com/0iSTy8b3lp
— Marco Collins (@notmarcocollins) February 5, 2020

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link

Laserdisc?

― 🚶‍♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 05:08 (four years ago) link

The Wave Of The Future!

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 06:13 (four years ago) link

Seem to recall a couple of months ago Has It Leaked? claimed they were in the studio so possibly legit

― groovypanda, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link

I hope there is a spoken word track with Ralf from Kraftwerk talking about the history of the band over a minimalist drum machine pulse.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link

Vangelis, By...Vangelis

― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link

i'd like one from rowlf, the muppet piano dog.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 5 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link

French press says fake

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 6 February 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link

Wow, all mine does is make coffee, never seen one that talks!

― Tuomas, Thursday, 6 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link

Here's hoping they use a drum machine and/or sampler for percussion again.

― octobeard, Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link

Yeah, Boombass from Cassius has denied any knowledge xps

― groovypanda, Thursday, 6 February 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link

I guess around the time of RAM, I noticed that those guys have never used a female vocalist. Have I missed that they in fact did? Is it not unusual that scholarly fellows such as they have avoided doing so?

― veronica moser, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link

The only female vocals they've ever used are on 'Ouverture', from Daft Club, iirc. That's Élodie Bouchez, Thomas Bangalter's wife. And yes, it's very unusual.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Looks like they’ve officially disbanded?

― eisimpleir (crüt), Monday, 22 February 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link

Ha, yes, I bumped the more recently active thread, but I saw that.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

My wife says ppl online are freaking out b/c the group just updated their homepage. Anyone heard anything?

― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link

surely it's an NFT thing

― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link

They're playing at my house.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link

Da Funkgible Token Punk

― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link

They're playing at my house.

Alternatively, they're going to show up for LCD Soundsystem's SNL performance this weekend.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link

https://www.twitch.tv/daftpunk

― fpsa, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link

Kinda fun! Wish I'd gone to the show but I remember the era there.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link

this is pretty cool

― fpsa, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link

whats the venue?

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link

The Mayan in LA

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link

Also reissuing Homework on vinyl, apparently.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link

Been a fun set. Just listening mostly but it's a true snapshot of time and place.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link

video download since Youtube rips are being taken down:
https://m**a.nz/file/uVtkmIzD#3YZtUJcgUMZNqL4cZ71UjraiYwtMecZiVkbSr13-uII

― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link

Saw them around that time. They were fun but not too different from very good contemporary Chicago or NYC dj’s playing in the House world. It’s just that …” pssst … these are two really young French dudes!” made it special.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link

The first album, remixes, offshoot labels and “Discovery” were and are still godhead to me, though.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:00 (two years ago) link

xxpost -- thanks for that!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link

yeah, thanks

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 February 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link

eleven months pass...

https://ra.co/news/78411

Thomas Bangalter, one half of legendary duo Daft Punk, is releasing a new solo album.
Out on April 7th via Erato/Warner Classics, Mythologies was commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for the ballet of the same name, which was premiered last year by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.

― groovypanda, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link

Interesting. The ballet's title is a direct reference to Barthes which is blowing my late-90s rave+theory mind.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:33 (one year ago) link

that's a dope record cover

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:36 (one year ago) link

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