Should be interesting! 8)

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[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/daftpunkofficial/daft-punk-columbia-records[/SOUNDCLOUD]

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let us know if you hear about the tour! I still need to see these chaps "live"

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[QUOTE=Huggie Smiles;1082207]let us know if you hear about the tour! I still need to see these chaps "live"[/QUOTE]

Same here mate, would love to see a live show.

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Funny to see 109 comments fit on a 1:31 soundwave :lol:

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[QUOTE=feather;1082214]Funny to see 109 comments fit on a 1:31 soundwave :lol:[/QUOTE]

And it's not Nicolas Jaar!

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This should be interesting. Looking forward to it

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Still kicking myself for not staying for day 2 of coachella when they were there :( fml :lol:

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Listened to the clip that debuted on SNL. Sounded a bit old-fashioned for them. I would have liked to hear more stuff similar to their Tron soundtrack, instead of more Disco.

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Who the fuq are Daft Punk?

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^let it go man

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Never.

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:lol:

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[QUOTE=Huggie Smiles;1082207]let us know if you hear about the tour! I still need to see these chaps "live"[/QUOTE] +1

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[QUOTE=sbando;1082666]Who the fuq are Daft Punk?[/QUOTE]

exactly :Smiley:

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May 21.

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[url="http://www.highsnobiety.com/2013/04/15/daft-punk-reveal-secrets-of-new-random-access-memories-album/"]http://www.highsnobiety.com/2013/04/15/daft-punk-reveal-secrets-of-new-random-access-memories-album/[/url]

Random Access Memories is one of 2013′s most eagerly anticipated releases. Late last month, for an upcoming Rolling Stone profile of Daft Punk, they discussed the new album’s creation in extensive detail at their studio in Paris. Here are the ten things you need to know:

[B]They began working on Random Access Memories in 2008, in Paris, with no clear plan.[/B] “After three records, there was a sense of searching for a record we hadn’t done,” Thomas says. The duo were dissatisfied with early demos that leaned heavily on electronic equipment, feeling like they were operating on “autopilot,” Thomas says. Eventually, a new approach emerged: “We wanted to do what we used to do with machines and samplers,” he explains, “but with people.” Except for a snippet of “an Australian rock record” that opens the final track, “Contact,” Daft Punk foreswore samples entirely, and they limited the role of drum machines to just two of the album’s thirteen tracks. The only electronics come in the form of a massive, custom-built modular synthesizer that Daft Punk played live on the album, they told me, and an arsenal of vintage vocoders on which they manually manipulated factors like pitch, vibrato and legato. “There’s this thing today where the recorded human voice is processed to try to feel robotic,” Thomas says, referring to the undying AutoTune vogue. “Here, we were trying to make robotic voices sound the most human they’ve ever sounded, in terms of expressivity and emotion.”

[B]The title captures the duo’s endless fascination with blurs between humans and technology…[/B]“We were drawing a parallel between the brain and the hard drive – the random way that memories are stored,” says Thomas.

[B]…and their endless fascination with the past.[/B] 2001’s Discovery was in part a backward-looking concept album about revisiting the funk, disco and soft-rock of Thomas’ and Guy-Manuel’s childhood. For Random Access Memories, they hired “top-notch session players,” says Guy-Manuel, with credits on classic records by Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, and Eric Clapton. Chic mastermind Nile Rodgers played rhythm guitar on a few tracks. “The Seventies and the Eighties are the tastiest era for us,” Guy-Manuel says. “And all these guys were tripping on meeting again and playing together again.” He adds: “It’s not that we can’t make crazy futuristic sounding stuff, but we wanted to play with the past.”

[B]Pharrell, Julian Casablancas, Giorgio Moroder, and Animal Collective’s Panda Bear are among the guest vocalists.[/B] ”We were at a party for Madonna’s last album,” Pharrell recalls, “and I was like, You guys should have produced this! Why did that not happen? Madonna and the robots would have been unbelievable! They were like, We’re working on something. I said, Whatever you do, call me – I’ll play tambourine on it. They looked at each other and they were like, We’ll be in touch.” Pharrell wound up singing on “Get Lucky” and a stomping disco track called “Lose Yourself to Dance.”

[B]The album’s move away from computerized sounds reflects Daft Punk’s “ambivalence” about the EDM craze they helped to inspire.[/B] “Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it’s not moving one inch,” Thomas says. “That’s not what artists are supposed to do.” He adds that the genre is suffering “an identity crisis: You hear a song, whose track is it? There’s no signature. Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song, even if it’s not him, you think it’s him.”

[B]Keep an eye on those Saturday Night Live commercial breaks.[/B] So far, Daft Punk have debuted two fifteen-second chunks of “Get Lucky” in ads that play during Saturday Night Live, incrementally revealing more of the song. Along with billboards advertising the album, these TV ads represent a throwback impulse that’s guiding the new album’s roll-out. “When you drive on the sunset strip and see these billboards, it’s more magical than a banner ad,” Thomas says. “SNL is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.” (A billboard overhanging the I-10 east greeted motorists driving to Coachella this weekend.)

[B]The new songs came together around the world.[/B] Most vocals and overdubs happened in Paris, but the rhythm sections were committed to Ampex reels in Los Angeles and New York, at Electric Ladyland studio, Henson (formerly A&M) studios, and other venerated old rooms. “There are songs on the album that traveled into five studios over two and a half years,” Thomas says. “They’re vials being filled up with life. Today, electronic music is made in airports and hotel rooms, by DJs traveling. It has a sense of movement, maybe, but it’s not the same vibe as going into these studios that contain specific things.”

[B]While recording, Daft Punk found time in their schedules to jam with Kanye West for his next album.[/B] At their Paris studio, they laid down a combination of live and programmed drums while Kanye worked out rough vocals on the fly. “It was very raw: he was rapping – kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas says. “Kanye doesn’t give a fuck,” Guy-Manuel adds. “He’s a good friend.” Director (and longtime Daft Punk compatriot) Michel Gondry says that Kanye recently played him “two songs” that sprang from the session. “One of them, I told him it sounded solid and powerful – I envisioned a cube when I heard it,” Gondry says. “He told me, Chris Cunningham’s already directing the video!”

[B]The biker gear from the last album and tour is out; sequins are in.[/B] Hedi Slimane, the Saint-Laurent-by-way-of-Dior-Homme fashion designer who made Daft Punk’s black-leather bike-dude outfits for their last album, 2005’s Human After All, designed their new look (spied for the first time in the exclusive photo above.)

[B]They say there are no current tour plans to promote the album.[/B] Their “Alive 2007″ world tour, in which they played within a giant steel pyramid covered in screens, was a marvel of pop stagecraft, but Thomas says “we have no current plans” to tour the new record. “We want to focus everything on the act and excitement of listening to the album. We don’t see a tour as an accessory to an album.” When they do finally hit the road, he added, it will be with a career-encompassing set list, not one overly focused on the new material.

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i tell you what, the marketing team behind daft punk is brilliant. the snippets after SNL, the coachella thing...they will make tons of money. i like daft punk but im not their biggest fan, alot of the songs sound the same after a while. im hoping they take this album in a new direction.

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Yeah im thinking the same, the marketing team behind them are doing a great job, i was lucky to see them on there alive tour and it is still to date the best gig ive been too, dame them robots are good. Can the album live up to the hype?

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Madonna, Kanye West, Pharrell...

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i hope nile rodgers is on every song

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[COLOR=#CCCCCC]"Random Access Memories is one of 2013′s most eagerly anticipated releases."

Who says? Daft Punk's publicist?

Let's be honest, they're shite, irrelevant and French

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:lol: qft

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Must be pretty disappointing for anyone who was eagerly anticipating this shit

[video=youtube;JMJwcOiBoZE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JMJwcOiBoZE#![/video]

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[QUOTE=audrey_w;1087239][COLOR=#CCCCCC]

Let's be honest, they're shite, irrelevant and French

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I like Daft Punk, but that's pretty funny :lol:

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[QUOTE=audrey_w;1087312]Must be pretty disappointing for anyone who was eagerly anticipating this shit

[video=youtube;JMJwcOiBoZE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JMJwcOiBoZE#![/video][/QUOTE]

what the actual?

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[IMG]http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003592453/314558598_Lol_94249156205_xlarge.jpeg[/IMG]

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[U][B]alleged[/B][/U] to be the new radio single: [URL]http://pmd.sonic1029.com/audio/downloads/rick_lee/daftpunk_getlucky.mp3[/URL]

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Officially released the rest of the song: [URL]http://www.rollingstone.com/music/songreviews/get-lucky-20130419[/URL]

Not my cup of tea but pretty interesting and fun.

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Oh dear it's real :lol:

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Their new song is on Spotify. It shouldn't be, because I listened to it and it sucks.

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[QUOTE=audrey_w;1087312]Must be pretty disappointing for anyone who was eagerly anticipating this shit

[video=youtube;JMJwcOiBoZE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JMJwcOiBoZE#![/video][/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqxdauHne61qh712io1_1280.jpg[/IMG]

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[video=youtube;OOlM5CDSoi8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OOlM5CDSoi8[/video]

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the first video literally makes absolutely no sense:

[video=youtube;6QVtHogFrI0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVtHogFrI0&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGODj4c_JrofSG mRCThOYx8&index=4[/video]

This guy is cool as hell 8): [video=youtube;da_Yp9BOCaI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da_Yp9BOCaI&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGODj4c_JrofSG mRCThOYx8&index=3[/video]

Interesting: [video=youtube;eYDvxo-M0OQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDvxo-M0OQ&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGODj4c_JrofSGmRCThOYx8&index =1[/video]

[video=youtube;yf2bu0P_4Vo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf2bu0P_4Vo&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGODj4c_JrofSG mRCThOYx8&index=2[/video]

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Daft Punk - Roboto Mexican Monkey :lol: [video=youtube;ekED7P4Guj4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ekED7P4Guj4[/video]

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[URL]https://soundcloud.com/dumbshitthatjakazidmade/get-clucky[/URL]

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^^^ hahahahahaha fantastic thanks

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streaming the lot:

[url="http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Daft+Punk+Random+Access+Memories/86439304"]Grooveshark - Free Music Streaming, Online Music[/url]

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Listening to the leak now. 3rd track Giorgio by Moroder is brilliant methinks.

[url="http://global14.com/daft-punk-giorgio-by-moroder/"]Daft Punk GLOBAL 14[/url]

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i think its free to stream legally on itunes today.

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It's all over the web anyway.

On to track 6. Besides 3, everything has been meh so far.