Daft Punk done

[Better Midlands]

They will play this as my flaming corpse gets catapulted into the Seine.

https://youtu.be/4HSGDI4ART4

Definately, I totally lost interest after the Roulé and Crydamoure period. Together - Together is still my favourite and was the reason I delurked to write my first post on here.

Daft Punk have done some lazy sampling but Bangalter truely is a sampling god as this youube clip showing the construction of Together shows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccKBHSOJQWM

and to be fair the backwards engineering to make the video is pretty smart too

Special mention to Revolution 909 and Stardust too, all the still sound amazing.

Doin' It Right was good, because of Panda Bear not them.

That came up on a playlist once, I didn't know who it was but the algorithm knew I listened to a lot of Panda Bear and remember being surprised it was Daft Punk, great pop tune that pisses over Get Lucky.

Then again I preferred Blurred Lines to Get Lucky so don't listen to me.

[sevendaughters]

At the time I really liked it, but after discovering the original sample, it's disappointing that they barely did anything to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVfZAZdIUs

Pierre Menard's Robot Rock.

[peanutbutter]

At the time I really liked it, but after discovering the original sample, it's disappointing that they barely did anything to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVfZAZdIUs

was sampled on a reasonably prominent hip hop album the year before too. Cannot imagine how underwhelming it must've been for some people hearing Robot Rock the first time (was the first song released from HAA, wasn't it?)

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

Just been having another listen to Random Access Memories for the first time in ages, and have been reminded of how absolutely fucking awful the song 'Touch' is.  Christ, it's rotten.

Fragments of Time and Doin' It Right are probably my favourite 2 tracks on there.

[gmoney]

Contact is the best track on it.

[Captain Z]

'Face To Face' is probably my favourite, and fair play to the lad who breaks down the sample construction here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWl8n9wxlA

[Custard]

I really like RAM, though admittedly I listen to my own re-ordered and cutdown version, as it was way too long and the running order didn't really flow well at all

I think the highlight is Touch. Makes all the hairs on the back of my pods stand up. Beautiful bit of music. Contact at the end is an absolute banger, too

Bit sad at this news. Thought maybe they'd spent the last eight years slowly making a new record. Bit upsetting to hear there'll be no more

[checkoutgirl]

. So odd to have it confirmed after all this time, especially in such a vague, anticlimactic way.

Yeah, breaking up a band seems relevant if you are active touring and releasing with a baying mob of fans awaiting your every movement, but if you've done fuck all for the best part of a decade it just looks a bit odd. If Bangalter or Manuel de Homem Cristo were looking to launch solo projects a good break up is a decent way of getting a bit of attention.

In other news, the band Moop are refusing to play.

Even though I'm one of about 20,000 people who's actually seen them live I'm not a fan of anything after Homework which is a decent record. I was always disappointed about how conventional their sound was after their debut record.

[sevendaughters]

maybe they just tried to get it back together, work through some issues, make sure they're both up to date with their copies of Cubase and take turns paying for a big dropbox, but it just felt like it wasn't happening.

[chveik]

rest in peace mister punk

[Bronzy]

i wouldnt call myself a fan of daft punk, but i will say its the healthiest way to prepare punk

[checkoutgirl]

They could be ninety and wear those stupid robot costumes and no one would know the difference.

They could put their pool cleaner in the outfits and no one would know the difference. Maybe that was the point. The outfits were most likely their biggest innovation. Their relative anonymity, the brand, the showmanship and ultimately the fact that anyone could be wearing the outfits. Perhaps when they reform anybody will be wearing it. By the time they reform actual cyborgs will be cheap and effective. That's their real legacy, decades long commitment to a bit.

The music seems like an afterthought really. They were extremely overrated musically. Although their live show had much tougher beats than I was expecting so fair play. The most annoying part of that gig was that on the bus back some twat put a Daft Punk cd on the stereo. I remember thinking lads have you not heard enough of this band? The gig was fine but their studio albums are mainly disappointing.

[RenegadeScrew]

Just imagine when they reform and loads of people say it's the most innovative thing that's ever happened.

[checkoutgirl]

Pretty sure everyone except Boston Crab realised Random Access Memories was a pile of shit straightaway.

Didn't he start calling himself Daft Punk Fan #1 or something around that time?

[checkoutgirl]

Just imagine when they reform and loads of people say it's the most innovative thing that's ever happened.

I watched the documentary on them and the only thing I can remember is one of them at an early gig and he was touching a jack connector to the outside bit of the plughole to make a static BVVV!! sound and some wog saying how this piece of genius improvisation was an early sign of the greatness to come. And at the time it just annoyed me because he was damaging the equipment, which he probably didn't own, and it was a stupid idea that made a rubbish sound anyway.

[RenegadeScrew]

I watched the documentary on them and the only thing I can remember is one of them at an early gig and he was touching a jack connector to the outside bit of the plughole to make a static BVVV!! sound and some wog saying how this piece of genius improvisation was an early sign of the greatness to come. And at the time it just annoyed me because he was damaging the equipment, which he probably didn't own, and it was a stupid idea that made a rubbish sound anyway.

Music documentaries can be particularly ridiculous in parts (should probably start a thread actually).  To be fair it's rarely the featured artist but some other talking head.  Usually stuff that could go in pseuds corner in private eye.

In the classic albums about The Doors, a guy reads the lyrics "break on through to the other side (x4) / yeah" off a page as if he's just came across it, then waxes lyrical about how deep it is.

[earl_sleek]

some wog saying

Erm?!

[Chedney Honks]

checkoutgirl done

[jobotic]

Now that's a typo!

Or we have a new Laurence Fax

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

28 years old, they were.

[Bronzy]

She might be Australian, in which case it's still not great.

[buntyman]

I think it's a he. And he needs cancelled unfortunately. A shame as he's been a fine, long standing member of the cab community

[Cuellar]

Had no idea they were still going to be honest

[mobias]

I watched the documentary on them and the only thing I can remember is one of them at an early gig and he was touching a jack connector to the outside bit of the plughole to make a static BVVV!! sound and some wog saying how this piece of genius improvisation was an early sign of the greatness to come. And at the time it just annoyed me because he was damaging the equipment, which he probably didn't own, and it was a stupid idea that made a rubbish sound anyway.

That documentary is so much hyperbole. The only two who came across as down to earth about them were the Slam guys. I finished watching that thinking if I was Daft Punk I'd be utterly embarrassed by it. I do wonder if the order of magnitude installed upon their greatness by that documentary contributed to them splitting up. They couldn't live up to all the hyperbole about them everywhere.

Yeah, breaking up a band seems relevant if you are active touring and releasing with a baying mob of fans awaiting your every movement, but if you've done fuck all for the best part of a decade it just looks a bit odd. If Bangalter or Manuel de Homem Cristo were looking to launch solo projects a good break up is a decent way of getting a bit of attention.

They maybe just got sick of everyone asking when a new album was going to come out so wanted to draw a line under it. I can't imagine they ever got stopped in the street often by adoring fans though.

[the]

They maybe just got sick of everyone asking when a new album was going to come out so wanted to draw a line under it. I can't imagine they ever got stopped in the street often by adoring fans though.

Still, it's impermanent, and also an inexpensive way to get a sales spike.

Quite odd to see people reminiscing about Thomas Bangalter tracks as though he's just split up with himself.

[thecuriousorange]

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[Petey Pate]

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[Captain Z]

The video does give the impression that Bangalter is the one that has run out of steam and wants to stop, while Guy Manuel is going to continue solo.

[Pancake]

just listened to these and they are shite

haha!

[Pancake]

I love RAM! Apart from the Moroder intro, that can eff aff