Was it Z-Machines???
i donāt think so, was trying to find a clip to show, but canāt remember the name and didnāt recognise any.
Floex has a robot drummer.
some great stuff some crap stuff. 3
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Itās not that Iāve fallen out of love with Daft Punk, but I find I listen to them less and less these days - itās possible itās simply a psychosomatic thing where Iām just waiting for new material after rinsing everything else theyāve released to death - but even then I donāt know if thatās the case. Either way, Iāve not seriously listened to DP in a few years.
I am one of the seemingly few fans not to be disappointed by Random Access Memories - I actually thought it was a completely fitting evolution/devolution to their sound. Theyād utterly changed the face of music production with Discovery circa 2000 (their fingerprints were all over electronic music for years after) and it seemed natural theyād go full production nerd eventually, and the lengths to which they went to get the sound right for RAM are extraordinary. And itās an extraordinary album that I think has come out the other side of hype into a genuinely strange underrated territory. Itās bloated - every DP album besides, maybe, Human After All - has been bloated. But thereās absolute brilliance to be found on it. Get Lucky was horrendously overplayed but itās not awful by any metric - and itās totally overshadowed by the far, far greater Williams collab on the album, Lose Yourself To Dance. Doinā It Right is also sublime, one of Panda Bearās finest moments.
The DP album that has surprised me most is Human After All - I loved it at first blush but stopped listening to it pretty quickly after the rush of the new had worn off - it doesnāt make a lot of sense and genuinely felt like a backwards step after the glitz of Discovery (though it basically gave us Justice, so no bad thing - ymmv) to go so raw and repetitive and ugly, as if theyād taken the challenge of the album title to heart. And then a couple years later on a live tour now committed to legend, the album made perfect sense - theyād written it so they could make mash-ups of their own songs. Alive 2007 is thrilling, even for someone who couldnāt make it to the pyramid themselves.
I probably donāt need to say much about Discovery; other posters have more eloquently spoken about its impact above me - but I was writing music reviews for several local and student magazines at the time it was released and no one else got a look in when the CDs were being disseminated for review. Oh, and Voyager is the best thing on it.
Homework, likewise, is amazing. The sound of the new made from regurgitations of the past in an unmistakably āFrenchā way; hip hop and electro inextricably entwined. Da Funk and Around The World are the first (and only) 12" vinyl I ever bought - I was so obsessed I had to have them in every format. Iāve gone with Around The World as my favourite, but it was a hard choice between the two.
Not spoken of much in this thread, but probably the Daft Punk album Iāve listened to the most overall is the TRON: Legacy soundtrack. Itās perfect; as a soundtrack it is vital to the movie, a huge part of what makes it work (for me at least) as a total audio-visual feast, a feat Joseph Kosinski tried to replicate by using M83 for the Oblivion soundtrack with diminishing returns. Itās just so unlikely - an electronic suite of music utilising an 85 piece orchestra to astonishing effect, yet it never sounds anything less than Daft Punk. The movie literally lives to their beat - Kosinski and Haygood edited it to the music. Itās brilliant, I love it, and itās the Daft Punk I want more of, some day.
Sorry for the ramble, itās been a while since I engaged in a HGATR, this is a tough time of year for me, but Daft Punk are worth dragging myself kicking and screaming to write some actual thoughts down. Iām only Human, and the Robots are a 5.
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Sublime.
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When my son was 8 we made a video of us covering Verdis Quo. This is the video! (My Son is now 17)
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Letās have a look then
Daft Punk get a respectable 3.50!
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Kasabian please people
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PLEASE
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Itāll just be hot takes and roof jokes, a few peolke might ay something interesting but an absolute waste.
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Takes peolke to know peolke, i guess.
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havenāt been this excited on Xmas Eve since the Great Santa Lie was exposed
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He actually prefers whiskey butter to brandy butter?
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IIIIIām dreaming
of a Cocteaus Christmas
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Gutted 
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be great if it was nobody that was on the list (i.e. somebody good)
The quiz has taught me the auld Joke double bluff too well, and Iām now taking this post as absolute confirmation that weāre getting Cocteaus tomorrow.
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