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Fact: Daft Punk is one of the greatest production/mastering acts on the planet
- Thread starter Chrome Hyena
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Both Thomas and Guy-Manuel are really excellent House producers. Their side projects are all over the place in terms of quality and consistency, but they've done some great stuff.
I recommend checking out the different Roulé (Bangalter's record label) compilations as well, some classic house tracks on those.
I recommend checking out the different Roulé (Bangalter's record label) compilations as well, some classic house tracks on those.
RAM is boring and and was completely underwhelming. I loved Homework and Discovery, even enjoyed HAA, but RAM just lacks something special. It's a Daft Punk and Friends album and fails at being just a Daft Punk album.
I wouldn't consider them the best producers out there, they don't do much outside of their own music. Right now the hot producers that are making headway into different genres and receiving accolades are SOPHIE, Jack Antanoff and A.G. Cook.
Daft Punk, for better or worse, are just too inactive to be called best in the word of anything. They need to do a tour, tbh.
I wouldn't consider them the best producers out there, they don't do much outside of their own music. Right now the hot producers that are making headway into different genres and receiving accolades are SOPHIE, Jack Antanoff and A.G. Cook.
Daft Punk, for better or worse, are just too inactive to be called best in the word of anything. They need to do a tour, tbh.
"The song with todd edwards makes me feel like I'm alone at waffle house and the jukebox is broken and only micheal mcdonald plays out of it"
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Yeah I looked him up. I had no idea Phoenix has been around that long. I just assumed maybe a few years before they blew up in '08.
Yeah, their production is topnotch and their schtick is entirely unique, from the origin to the fact that they've kept it up this whole time. Most people have never seen their faces outside of a few videos of record producer parties on youtube.
I remember when they were still just adding vinyl scratchie noises to Franz Ferdinand singles. They've come along way.
I wonder why they didnt do an alive 2017 tour? I've been waiting for an awesome remix album of random access memories from them for a while now and that would have been a perfect debut but I guess not?
I remember when they were still just adding vinyl scratchie noises to Franz Ferdinand singles. They've come along way.
I wonder why they didnt do an alive 2017 tour? I've been waiting for an awesome remix album of random access memories from them for a while now and that would have been a perfect debut but I guess not?
Tron legacy soundtrack is amazeballs. I actually really like the remix album, reconfigured, a lot also. Even moby's track is banging.
80% of People here don't seem to know what is meant when someone talks about the production and mastering of a record.
Touch remains the most a song has ever felt like a straight up journey. The way they layer sounds and tracks and then pull them as the song progresses just creates an incredible sensation of progression.
They helped make Yeezus. That automatically cements their legacy as being second only to the GOAT, Kanye West.
They have some very good production. I think as actual disco music something like RAM is pretty dull. I don't know if this is because of the production to me. I listen to Get Lucky and my thought is always that it has lots of bass but no panache to it. The funny thing is despite the upthread comparison to Steely Dan, I think Steely Dan's stuff tends to be overall a lot more interesting and dynamic. I don't think much in the way of Aja being a dance song, though.
Anyway I'm listening to The Crusaders' Street Life ft. Randy Crawford to detox. This, is disco.
Anyway I'm listening to The Crusaders' Street Life ft. Randy Crawford to detox. This, is disco.
Daft Punk make a looooot of boring music (their own recordings, not as producers), I usually find 2 or 3 songs at most that I like out of each one of their albums. The rest sounds like filler to me.
I felt that way about RAM, but someone sent me a copy of Discovery on vinyl and I actually enjoyed the hell out of it.
Discovery is one of my favourite albums of all time.
I saw them live in 2007 and it's one of the best live experiences of my life, incredible.
The last two albums, while enjoyable, haven't lived up to Discovery for me.
I saw them live in 2007 and it's one of the best live experiences of my life, incredible.
The last two albums, while enjoyable, haven't lived up to Discovery for me.
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Every time a song from RAM comes on shuffle I think "dayum this album went OFF" and then I listen to it and get bored 4 songs in.
Think that was the whole point, especially with all the generic EDM out there.
RAM alone is proof of this.
Can't believe it's been five years since it was released.
Nah it's fact.
Can't believe it's been five years since it was released.
Nah it's fact.
This might also be the proper place to pay respect to Nilesh Patel, who was the mastering engineer of everything daft punk (and many other European bands) touched between 1996 & 2011, when he died.
http://stoneyroads.com/2011/12/daft-punk-air-mastering-engineer-nilesh-pateldies/
He also worked for Bjork, Air, Chemical Brothers, 2manyDJ's/Soulwax, Underworld and many many more.
http://stoneyroads.com/2011/12/daft-punk-air-mastering-engineer-nilesh-pateldies/
He also worked for Bjork, Air, Chemical Brothers, 2manyDJ's/Soulwax, Underworld and many many more.
Yeah probably, the thing is that Daft Punk isn't your generic EDM.
They know how to drop, and when they do they drop hard AF.
Source: Alive 2007
You know every track on the album has a video like that, and they all flow into one another and tell a coherent story?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8&list=PLF230C93EF3BB5AE7
Oh yes I knew that, I watched them all in fact. At the times, when YouTube and such weren't a thing and finding good quality official videos was not an easy task, it was almost a mini-event when MTV or some other music channel started showing the new video of the series, so we could see where the story's headed. Great times.
I know some people really don't like RAM because it's a departure from their other stuff, but it's probably my favorite album, or right up there with the best.
Forgot about this. Incredible song and video
I agree that Daft Punk's generally expertly mastered and produced-- though like most people here I find RAM a weird sticking point.
RAM is one of those albums where it's like... I like it but I don't? Giorgio is incredible. Get Lucky is fun as hell. Give Life Back to Music is almost easy listening, in the sense that there's no part of where I'm like "Yeah, the song is popping off now" but it's not at all offensive to the ears. It's pleasurable but it goes nowhere. Touch is fascinating simply because of the fact that it's done by the guy who wrote The Rainbow Connection, and if that's not cool I don't know what is. Lose Yourself To Dance has an undeniably crisp sound but never really resolves into much. Looking over the playlist, there's entire songs that only exist for the amount of time that it takes me to listen to them. Within is the chief example. Instant Crush gamely tries to have a point-- it has a structure, it sounds clean, but at the same time something about it just isn't fun to listen to. Beyond's opening promises something the rest of the song just doesn't deliver on and it's a damn shame. You're getting yourself hyped up for something incredible and then it just never comes. I don't want to hear about how I'm the light behind the clouds right now, I want something worth of that brass section, c'mon! Motherboard is just on the whole very fun-- one of the better songs in that I don't really know how to classify it other than really thoughtful and interesting in general. Fragments of Time does absolutely nothing for me. Same with Doin' It Right. Contact, though-- Contact's the one I always find people sleeping on and I just do not understand. Am I the only one who thought that song was incredible?
RAM is one of those albums where it's like... I like it but I don't? Giorgio is incredible. Get Lucky is fun as hell. Give Life Back to Music is almost easy listening, in the sense that there's no part of where I'm like "Yeah, the song is popping off now" but it's not at all offensive to the ears. It's pleasurable but it goes nowhere. Touch is fascinating simply because of the fact that it's done by the guy who wrote The Rainbow Connection, and if that's not cool I don't know what is. Lose Yourself To Dance has an undeniably crisp sound but never really resolves into much. Looking over the playlist, there's entire songs that only exist for the amount of time that it takes me to listen to them. Within is the chief example. Instant Crush gamely tries to have a point-- it has a structure, it sounds clean, but at the same time something about it just isn't fun to listen to. Beyond's opening promises something the rest of the song just doesn't deliver on and it's a damn shame. You're getting yourself hyped up for something incredible and then it just never comes. I don't want to hear about how I'm the light behind the clouds right now, I want something worth of that brass section, c'mon! Motherboard is just on the whole very fun-- one of the better songs in that I don't really know how to classify it other than really thoughtful and interesting in general. Fragments of Time does absolutely nothing for me. Same with Doin' It Right. Contact, though-- Contact's the one I always find people sleeping on and I just do not understand. Am I the only one who thought that song was incredible?
Digital Love is in contention for my favorite song of all time.
And Discovery is a Top 10 album. Maybe Top 5 even.
And Discovery is a Top 10 album. Maybe Top 5 even.