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There are a hell of a lot of samples used throughout Discovery. If Something About Us was entirely original then it would be an outlier. Also their latest albu

There are a hell of a lot of samples used throughout Discovery. If Something About Us was entirely original then it would be an outlier. Also their latest album (Random Access Memories) came more than a decade later than Discovery and was departure from their older techno roots. You also have to bear in mind that while Discovery is a great album, it wasn’t created in a vacuum. Electronic artists sampling rock and funk music was in vogue at the time. With artists like Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy having their own seminal albums with heavy use of creative sampling. If you look at popular electronic music from that era, more tracks have made use of sampling than tracks that haven’t. > Maybe they didn't. They are musicians, not just DJs I think that’s rather disparaging to artists who do sample. Producing electronic music might be a different skill to playing the guitar but it’s still a difficult craft to learn. It’s also an entirely different skill to DJing Source: myself, who was a DJ and producer in the Daft Punk era.

disillusioned 2y ago
Interestingly, there aren't any listed on whosampled, but a comment there calls out that the bass line borrows extremely heavily from Curtis Mayfield's Tripping Out (and a bit more than the bass, if you listen to it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCR6ecWb064 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCR6ecWb064 Not quite a sample necessarily, but more than a bit of inspiration there. And when you watch the Discovery sample deconstruction videos, it becomes obvious just how much artistry went into their albums... how they'd hear the tiny guitar riff and mix it into exactly what they need for so many tracks. God, I love Daft Punk.
jmcgough 2y ago
Something About Us is the odd track on the album that does not use any known samples. The backing music is likely inspired by Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night", which Daft Punk has sampled in two other songs (Voyager and the intro to their 1997 BBC1 Essential Mix).
wodenokoto 2y ago
> Also their latest album (Random Access Memories) came more than a decade later than Discovery and was departure from their older techno roots. I don’t know. When it came out it felt very off brand, but now another decade later looking back, it feels pretty on brand and more of an evolution than a revolution. I feel the same about Radioheads Kid A. It was quite controversial when it came out, but looking back it’s like OK Computer was 1 step and Kid A another step. As to sampling being in vogue, I think it’s more of a copyright enforcement thing that have pushed a lot of artist to create their own samples.

disillusioned 2y ago

Interestingly, there aren't any listed on whosampled, but a comment there calls out that the bass line borrows extremely heavily from Curtis Mayfield's Tripping Out (and a bit more than the bass, if you listen to it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCR6ecWb064 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCR6ecWb064 Not quite a sample necessarily, but more than a bit of inspiration there. And when you watch the Discovery sample deconstruction videos, it becomes obvious just how much artistry went into their albums... how they'd hear the tiny guitar riff and mix it into exactly what they need for so many tracks. God, I love Daft Punk.

jmcgough 2y ago

Something About Us is the odd track on the album that does not use any known samples. The backing music is likely inspired by Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night", which Daft Punk has sampled in two other songs (Voyager and the intro to their 1997 BBC1 Essential Mix).

wodenokoto 2y ago

> Also their latest album (Random Access Memories) came more than a decade later than Discovery and was departure from their older techno roots. I don’t know. When it came out it felt very off brand, but now another decade later looking back, it feels pretty on brand and more of an evolution than a revolution. I feel the same about Radioheads Kid A. It was quite controversial when it came out, but looking back it’s like OK Computer was 1 step and Kid A another step. As to sampling being in vogue, I think it’s more of a copyright enforcement thing that have pushed a lot of artist to create their own samples.