am I the only person on the internet who doesn't like the new Daft Punk stuff?
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
Sounds like their spirit left them...the fire gone out.
Barry
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
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- KVRAF
- 16733 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
As a toned down version of your point, I don't really like the album, as I said, I won't buy it. I would like it to be influential, however, and this is largely as a response to Skrillex et al. That said, I'm not sure that I see it happening. It doesn't seem that it's quite strong enough to have a lasting effect. Will people be wanting more EDM that is groovy and features disco musicians? I find that unlikely.NER wrote: Thus far it looks like a lot of people like this album out of spite of Skrillex or EDM. I'm going to bet in 6 months people won't ever want to hear this schlock again. Even the single 'Get Lucky' got extremely old quickly.
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- KVRian
- 996 posts since 14 Jun, 2012 from Toronto, Canada
Who cares whether it is EDM or not? I don't like that label...
I find the album really lacking in some effort to keep the groove going. Yeah, electronic music is missing a lot of groove these days... that's true. And I think Bangalter has earned the right to criticize current electronic music scene.
But I find the album overworked. So frustrating when the production is near immaculate... groove needs some attention span, and the songs move from one point to another so fast. It's too bad. I think DP is capable of much more, but this doesn't show it.
The album sounds like it was designed by a committee of focus groups.
I find the album really lacking in some effort to keep the groove going. Yeah, electronic music is missing a lot of groove these days... that's true. And I think Bangalter has earned the right to criticize current electronic music scene.
But I find the album overworked. So frustrating when the production is near immaculate... groove needs some attention span, and the songs move from one point to another so fast. It's too bad. I think DP is capable of much more, but this doesn't show it.
The album sounds like it was designed by a committee of focus groups.
It's all about the wavelets. I dream of the perfect additive synthesis.
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- KVRAF
- 2628 posts since 30 Mar, 2007 from In and Out Burger
One of many reasons why I hate America.jancivil wrote:
I think they must be more 'important' to folk in the UK than here.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111257 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
or, pehaps...trimph1 wrote:Sounds like their spirit left them...the fire gone out.
they made the album they wanted to make
it could happen!
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- addled muppet weed
- 111257 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
bailees7irish wrote:One of many reasons why I hate America.jancivil wrote:
I think they must be more 'important' to folk in the UK than here.
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- KVRist
- 107 posts since 14 Apr, 2007
They made about 20% of itvurt wrote:or, pehaps...trimph1 wrote:Sounds like their spirit left them...the fire gone out.
they made the album they wanted to make
it could happen!
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs." ~ Salvador Dali
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
They found their true metier!!!vurt wrote:or, pehaps...trimph1 wrote:Sounds like their spirit left them...the fire gone out.
they made the album they wanted to make
it could happen!
Barry
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
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- KVRAF
- 4054 posts since 8 Jan, 2005 from Hamilton, New Zealand
I never got Daft Punk. I mean, I could see the appeal, if it weren't so inanely repetitive. Than again, I'm an IDM kinda guy.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
I heard a bit of the one song, because 'Nile Rodgers'. it was far too boring for me, I don't know why they needed him, why not buy a loop from him. it has a glossy surface and well mixed. far too low in terms of content. I really do believe this requires a gigantic hype to do anything.
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- KVRAF
- 4329 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
It would make a great summer Target™ commercial! 
Put Pharrell in a nice pink polo and have him and the boys in their masks and cheap hawaiian prints doin a little two-step!
Put Pharrell in a nice pink polo and have him and the boys in their masks and cheap hawaiian prints doin a little two-step!
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- KVRian
- 784 posts since 3 Apr, 2013 from Belgium
I think they will react well to groovy tracks and disco influenced grooves (but better is funk, disco is so EDM finally...). But on the other side they don't give a f**k if it is played by real or machine musicians. In the daft punk clip get lucky the music is made by a surreal rasta that u can only imagine in your dreams, and two old rusty robotsghettosynth wrote:As a toned down version of your point, I don't really like the album, as I said, I won't buy it. I would like it to be influential, however, and this is largely as a response to Skrillex et al. That said, I'm not sure that I see it happening. It doesn't seem that it's quite strong enough to have a lasting effect. Will people be wanting more EDM that is groovy and features disco musicians? I find that unlikely.NER wrote: Thus far it looks like a lot of people like this album out of spite of Skrillex or EDM. I'm going to bet in 6 months people won't ever want to hear this schlock again. Even the single 'Get Lucky' got extremely old quickly.
And what the people certainly don't want is the lack of power we find in this album. This is not dance, this is sleeping time. Sadly people don't give a f**k about plagiat, and thus they may ultimately like this daft punk because the melodies were tilting some part of their lizard brain and remind them something from childhood without knowing what exactly. I just hope nobody will ever copy their workflow that would be regression in electro.
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- KVRist
- 107 posts since 14 Apr, 2007
ghettosynth wrote:As a toned down version of your point, I don't really like the album, as I said, I won't buy it. I would like it to be influential, however, and this is largely as a response to Skrillex et al. That said, I'm not sure that I see it happening. It doesn't seem that it's quite strong enough to have a lasting effect. Will people be wanting more EDM that is groovy and features disco musicians? I find that unlikely.NER wrote: Thus far it looks like a lot of people like this album out of spite of Skrillex or EDM. I'm going to bet in 6 months people won't ever want to hear this schlock again. Even the single 'Get Lucky' got extremely old quickly.
Well pitchfork apparently gave it a 8.8/10 for similar reasons.
"So RAM is best appreciated as a counter to these trends." http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/180 ... -memories/
They even said 4 of the songs weren't good. That is 30% of the tracks! What load of crap. I wonder if their exclusive cover story was granted in exchange for a (clearly) undeserved rating?
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- KVRAF
- 8101 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK