"Yep, there it is. The view from within the technicolor dream pyramid inhabited by those rascally robots Daft Punk. The innards of the very vessel Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo use to make tens of thousands of people all jump in unison and gyrate their hips in some grand, cosmic harmony. Pretty sweet, although it doesn't hold a candle to the view from the outside."They definitely like their MOOG Voyager RMEs. via antonio. Title link takes you to the full article.
Not a very revealing article, I'd of liked to learn and seen more, but eh oh well. Thanks for posting it anyway. Maybe one day I'll actually go to one of their concerts.
ReplyDeleteZam
These guys seem to have a lot of screaming fanboys. I don't see the big deal, personally. They are average at best.
ReplyDeleteHe needs all that to play back old disco/funk samples?
ReplyDeleteHaha, that is the same thought I had. Any idiot can sample entire tracks and doodle a little synth riff and a couple samples over top. These guys are the definition of overrated IMO.
ReplyDeleteI thought it would be an iPod with two laptops for emailing and webrowsing during the show. But now I'm impressed!
ReplyDeleteIf they are soooo overrated and anybody could do it.. why is it not you being given a full page spread...
ReplyDeleteIt's always easy when somebody else does it ;)
Have you even heard the latest album? I used to think they weren't very interesting, but with "human after all" everything really came together
ReplyDeleteyeah, they use alot of samples alright but doesn't everybody do that nowdays? They weren't the first ones who did that and they even make it clear in their albums.It's all legal, baby and most of those who use samples don't give credit to their original artists until someone gets sued. Besides there are many, many songs based on samples of someone else's tracks made before DP even existed! So stop this DP bashing now already, will ya??
ReplyDeleteThat being said, they made alot of cool tracks of their own without recycling old samples and I think it's about time they release a compilation of their own stuff from their last couple albums. THAT would be awesome!! They ARE innovative once you get over their one-sample stuff.
Nothing wrong with sampling. But ripping off an entire track is just like putting your name on a painting you never did. It's sad. If you paid for it or not doesn't change anything.
ReplyDeleteIf they had any artistic integrity they would write on their album "xxx remixed by Daft Punk" or "Daft Punk presents xxx". Because most of their tracks are just remixes.
I'm staying out of this one. A friend at a dinner party last week had just seen the live show & said it was a touching homage to Kraftwerk.
ReplyDeleteSay what you want about their music, but they do put on a fine show. I couldn't care less about their albums, but someone dragged me to a recent show and it was great. Life changing? Naw. But very entertaining. The music is predictable and VERY repetitive - just slightly new-fangled disco really, but that pyramid and the suits and the lights... genius.
ReplyDeleteI love how people bitch about their integrity, but you know those same people, if given the chance, would love to fill their shoes any day. A whole sports arena full of super-excited partying people having the time of their life, while you sit in the center of a kick-ass multi-million dollar spaceship lightshow tweaking knobs? Sounds like a great career to me.
"those same people, if given the chance, would love to fill their shoes any day"
ReplyDeleteThat is akin to saying "given the chance everyone would sell their sould to the devil for money and fame" I know the devil is a bit extreme, but I am just making a point. Speak for yourself. Not everyone would sell out or want to be in their place just for money, fame and screaming groupies. Its sad that you have such a bleek outlook on life. Some people do still make art for the sake of art you know, not money or fame. Artistic integrity is something I would never compromise for any price, but that is just me.
Some people are desperate for attention and just have to be seen and loved by thousands, some couldn't care less. Lets not make blanket assumptions.
ReplyDeleteSorry if this is a daft question, (sorry had to do it) but what are those gray and white computer keyboard looking things, of which there appear to five, along the top of their gear setup?
ReplyDeleteDaft Punk at least does something interesting when they use wholesale samples of other people's songs.
ReplyDeleteAn even more egregious assault on creativity is what Kanye West did with "Stronger", which is basically just him rapping over the top of a Daft Punk song. At least DP went through the trouble of doing some rather good vocoding.
That rappers get paid what they do for such banality is one of the true crimes of our age.
"An even more egregious assault on creativity is what Kanye West did with "Stronger", which is basically just him rapping over the top of a Daft Punk song. At least DP went through the trouble of doing some rather good vocoding."
ReplyDeleteDude you are completely missing the irony of that song. It was an intentional rip off of DP as a satire of how DP rips off everyone else. Come on, that should have been obvious! I though Kanyes song was a clever and funny stab at those daft boys. I guess irony and satire are just lost on some people.
Anybody could do it but the point is they did it and you didn't. Its kind of like why Andy Warhol is one of the most important artists of the 1900s.
ReplyDelete