All About Daft Punk

[Somafunk]

Ahh……Curtis Mayfield, he’s responsible for my absolute #1 song ever. “Silicone Soul - Right On“ on Soma with their sample of Mayfield‘s “Right on for the Darkness. Had the utmost honour to book Craig & Graeme a couple of times to headline our tents and when that track dropped at the end of the night i was so ecstatically happy, no feeling like a tent full of folk absolutely loosing their shit over months of work to bring everything together.

Back of Craig and Graeme’s heads,

Never made it to Glastonbury despite getting passes from mates as i was usually away mtb guiding in Spain during June, really regret not making it.

I think you’d have loved it at Wickerman as Sid Ambrose who initially formed the idea of a festival in the area was a punk at heart and it always kept that ethos and we always booked the best punk artists, shame it ended the way it did but we had a fantastic 13 years.

Anyway…… that’s enough ramblings of yesteryear

 

[Chr1]

Fantastic mate. Good on ya's!

Aye, enough whittering on about the good old days. Ahem.

 

[VintageFlanker]

The rumour of the day...

...They could be back for the great opening of Olympics Paris 2024.

Which has been finally refuted a few hours later :

Ouverture des JO de Paris : la décision des Daft Punk "est de ne pas y participer", clarifie Thomas Jolly, le directeur artistique des cérémonies

Une interview de Thomas Jolly, metteur en scène de la cérémonie d'ouverture, a déclenché un emballement médiatique... retombé comme un soufflet.

www.francetvinfo.fr

 

[JSmith]

Ever watch Interstella 5555? Daft Punk produced an anime musical for Discovery:

Daft Punk fans divided as 'anime house musical' returns to cinemas

Interstella 5555 — Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto's 2003 "animated house musical" — is finally hitting Australian cinemas. But the film's remaster and complex legacy is dividing fans.

www.abc.net.au

Now, the film has been remastered and will screen in more than 800 cinemas in more than 40 countries, including here in Australia, from today.

JSmith

 

[JohnnyAudio]

Within cover - Daft Punk (piano & vocal/vocoder​

fishenelmar... very nice with the EP

 

[Berwhale]

Well if we're going down the covers route...

 

[Mart68]

Ahh……Curtis Mayfield, he’s responsible for my absolute #1 song ever. “Silicone Soul - Right On“ on Soma with their sample of Mayfield‘s “Right on for the Darkness. Had the utmost honour to book Craig & Graeme a couple of times to headline our tents and when that track dropped at the end of the night i was so ecstatically happy, no feeling like a tent full of folk absolutely loosing their shit over months of work to bring everything together.

You don't hear much about Curtis Mayfield nowadays, but he was outstanding.

Maybe he'll be rediscovered like Hendrix or The Doors were in the early '90s?

Re Daft Punk: count me as one of the latecomers. I have 'Discovery' but never got into it, but I do like 'Random Access Memories'. That's been in my regular rotation since it came out.

I'll give 'Discovery' another go.

 

[-Matt-]

If you like Daft Punk (as I do) then you may also like this Synthwave Goose track...

 

[Booker]

If you're a fan of Daft Punk, you might be interested in the current Fortnite event. It's really well done!

https://www.fortnite.com/@epic/daft-punk-experience?lang=en-US

 

[Karmacoma]

I bought Random Access Memories, but after sampling some of their other albums, nothing caught my ear.

I can try again.

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Ok, tried a little, same result.

It makes me sad to read that, the first time I listened to ''harder better faster stronger'' I had the same feeling than listening to Bach's toccata, like how the hell someone can come up with that level of inventiveness and talent.
And on the same album, ''too long'' best house music track ever, for me and many others but you have to love house.

 

[Raiju]

 

[Somafunk]

That was an excellent visualisation of the track breakdown

 

[GK.]

These guys produced the kind of stuff that I can imagine being made by a couple of moderately musically inclined eight year olds in 1992 with an Amiga 500 and a copy of OctaMED.
Kraftwerk suck too, but they were freaking virtuosos from an infinitely higher dimension compared to these turkeys.

 

[Karmacoma]

These guys produced the kind of stuff that I can imagine being made by a couple of moderately musically inclined eight year olds in 1992 with an Amiga 500 and a copy of OctaMED.
Kraftwerk suck too, but they were freaking virtuosos from an infinitely higher dimension compared to these turkeys.

For people in this thread to fully understand the context and where you come from, allow me to share one of your recommended track from another thread:

 

[GK.]

 

[Sjkrabbe]

R.A.M. is such a great album. Both synthetic, artificial and very organic at the same time. The perfect mix of man and machine. I have tried to listen back in their cataloque, but nothing catches me as much as R.A.M.
Contact is over the top great

 

[Somafunk]

These guys produced the kind of stuff that I can imagine being made by a couple of moderately musically inclined eight year olds in 1992 with an Amiga 500 and a copy of OctaMED.
Kraftwerk suck too, but they were freaking virtuosos from an infinitely higher dimension compared to these turkeys.

I normally reply with a thorough debunking of your outburst but it’s obviously a troll post so…………………

 

[GK.]

I normally reply with a thorough debunking of your outburst but it’s obviously a troll post so…………………

Oh no, I was hoping for another utterly mind-blowing sampling breakdown.

 

[Karmacoma]

 

[Count Dacula]

Recording Random Access Memories | Daft Punk

Daft Punk spent four years and over a million dollars on their quest to revisit the golden age of record production. Mick Guzauski and Peter Franco were with them all the way.

www.soundonsound.com