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It is unreal to me the amount of impact Daft Punk had with only four studio albums.
by jedimastert 1y ago
It is unreal to me the amount of impact Daft Punk had with only four studio albums.
- trollied 1y agoWas lucky enough to see them live at a small venue in Manchester in the 90s when I was at University. Epic times.
- marcedwards 1y agoAwesome! That would have been so good. I saw them just once — the Alive 2007 tour. Was a great day.
- marcedwards 1y agoAbsolutely. Hopefully there’s at least one more.
- ukuina 1y agoHow can this be?
- marcedwards 1y agoThere’s rumours they’re working on more material. I wouldn’t blame them for telling the world they’ve broken up, just to take the pressure off. I can live in hope, right?
- colecut 1y agoAt least if they don't produce another album, we still get to see them perform at Burning Man this year, out by the trash fence
- ilinx 1y agoI mean, they’re retired, and I’m not holding out hope. But it’s remarkable that 30 years after their debut Daft Punk could put out an album and probably be as innovative and relevant as ever. That’s such a rare quality.
- diggan 1y agoTo be fair, they've done a lot more than just studio albums, from collaborations to live albums, concerts and whatever more. Personal favorite is probably Alive 2007 that went on repeat until Mom complained about the windows in the living room downstairs almost breaking.
- joezydeco 1y agoThe TRON:Legacy soundtrack was an incredible piece of work. Fit the movie exactly.
- devilbunny 1y agoI have said many times that while TRON:Legacy wasn't a very good movie, it was absolutely the best-ever Daft Punk video.
- joezydeco 1y agoHoly shit, you're right!
- prmoustache 1y agoFunny because Mom alternated between a Bob Marley greatest hits and Daft Punk Discovery and Human after all records when doing the ironing and cleaning at home. No idea what she is listening to these days when doing those chores.
- pengaru 1y agoIs your Mom one of my exes?
- KolyaKornelius 1y agodad?
- olelele 1y agoBoth of them had separate labels and released a lot of other artists. See DJ Mehdis super hit for one of my favourite tracks ever :)
- olelele 1y agoSpecifically Roulé and Crydamoure (unsure if spelling correctly)
- philistine 1y agoThey did so much more. Thomas made Call On Me, a track he found unsatisfying, and it still ended up as a massive hit because it was stolen from him.
- tobr 1y agoImagine inventing pumping sidechain compression and finding it unsatisfying.
- kennyadam 1y agoA YouTube video (that the algorithm loved) about all this and is super interesting: https://youtu.be/wyYAiU4DKUY?si=CpcOuhzAvXs7fqWF https://youtu.be/wyYAiU4DKUY?si=CpcOuhzAvXs7fqWF
- tobr 1y agoInteresting watch. It leaves some things unexplained though. How did Prydz end up as the artist on a song not in his own style, nearly identical to two previous artists making the same song, based on a re-recording of a sample? I wonder if the label was simply looking for a competent producer to make a version of what they thought would be a hit after having figured out how to clear the sample.
- philistine 1y agoYou've got it exactly right. The people at the label knew the loop of Call On Me was sure to be a hit. They only needed another version.
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- rickdeckard 1y ago(They also did the Soundtrack for Tron:Legacy, basically their fifth studio album) Anyway, I keep remembering how panned 'Human After All' was, and how bad the reviews were because the album was too "mechanical" and was "missing the warmth of House", while this is EXACTLY how the genre evolved in the years to come and none of those music experts saw this. Many journalists did a retrospective of it a few years later and admitted that they misjudged it. It's not that Daft Punk drove the industry in this direction, the album wasn't well-received by most at that time. They showed the destination of a journey while people didn't even realize they are traveling... In the end, it appears that 'Random Access Memories' is one of their least innovative and "lasting" albums. It's probably their most successful one, the most complex to conceptualize and produce, but IMO it has the least unique character of all their productions. Looking at the whole picture, the product of "Random Access Memories" is less the music, but the duo celebrating the process of production itself...
- bongodongobob 1y agoRandom Access Memories was such a letdown. It's an OK disco album that doesn't innovate at all. Masterful recording, it sounds great of course, but it didn't take any risks. I listened to it twice and that was it.
- rickdeckard 1y agoExactly, fully agree. If it would have been released as a Pharrell Williams Album "produced by Daft Punk", it woul have been met with different expectations. And especially now it would perfectly blend with other Pharrell Williams Albums (i.e. "Happy" could have been on "Random Access Memories" without standing out at all...)
- spcebar 1y agoRAM brought back that funky sound which had been completely absent from contemporary dance music. It was a revival of old elements, mixed with modern electronic sound. A masterful mingling of elements of the past and the future coming together to form something not quite as good as either, but listenable and danceable, and most importantly impactful, because after that album there was a wave of artists emulating that sound. We wouldn't have gotten Uptown Special if we hadn't gotten Random Access Memories. That's my feeling on it anyway.
- Thaxll 1y agoBecause those albums redefined the music industry, they also created the base platform for all live EDM concert with Coachella in 2006. Daft punk had a large impact on music overall, they were ( are? ) really really good musicians.
- cpitman 1y agoInterstella 5555 is still one of my favorite movies. It's an anime movie where the entire soundtrack is the album Discovery. There are no vocals, the entire story is told by only the animation and music, and it works incredibly well.
- bee_rider 1y agoI don’t even know what it is, haha (maybe it is an… Album Video). But it is great. I guess there is the concept of a Rock Opera, but that doesn’t seem to have expanded much across the genres.
- cpitman 1y agoThey were the official music videos for the album, looks like Daft Punk released all of them on YouTube. This Playlist has them all in order: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdoVPM5WnndLX6Ngmb8wktMF61dJirKl&si=A0I2YgiAZ1bNtZLR https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdoVPM5WnndLX6Ngmb8wktMF...
- muziq 1y agoInterstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem for the first time was an astonishing thing with that soundtrack.. Back then wasn’t really into DP, but that sold me entirely..