Daft Punk Live-Seriously this time.....

At a slight tangent, have you heard "So Much Love To Give", the new Falcon & Bangalter one? It's absolutely incredible, superficially it takes a simple loop and vocal and just keeps on repeating it, but it is so uplifting. How do they do it?

If there's a new Bangalter/Falcon single out there, I must have it - is it on vinyl yet?

both of the deelat tracks are really, really fresh - i've heard a third awesome deelat track in a felix da housecat set too... who is this deelat, anybody know?

i also love the really sweet sentimental tracks on waves like le knight club's 'cherie d'amour' and archigram's 'in flight (raw club mix)'

How indeed? I like "Together" - quite a lot - but this feels like "Together" to the power of 10. I love it.

Again, does anyone know about a vinyl release date...? It must be mine utterly...

They showed some of their London set tonight on Channel 4 just now, looked awesome. Camera showing several people in the crowd mouthing the hook to 'Da Funk' v funny.

that was basically the best live show i've ever seen, even if i have my doubts that it was, you know, properly live. if it wasn't for the half-nude photo kenan just posted of himself on the wdyll thread, i'd still be on a pretty massive high.

anyone going to the brooklyn show?

I've heard the buzz was kind of harshed by it being basically broad daylight for a lot of it, but everything I heard eventually came down to "amazing".

several people in the crowd mouthing the hook to 'Da Funk'

come on everybody does this, right?

hm i decided in the end not to go to the berkeley show. $73.50 for a ticket? come on, it can't be THAT good.

Unfortunately, the show here is on a Sunday night, thus conflicting with work.

my brother bought tickets to the brooklyn show, but decided to sell them for some reason.

i was thinking about going to the brooklyn show but i doubt it'll be worth it

rather spend $20 on a good dj and be able to do drugs

daylight must have sucked!

walking into the bercy on thursday night just after they started was one of the most awe-inspiring moments of my life.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/556895761_08bacb8e6b.jpg?v=0

this doesn't really capture it at all, but standing above the sea of camera phones (much cooler than lighters) was, well, incredible.

I've heard the buzz was kind of harshed by it being basically broad daylight for a lot of it, but everything I heard eventually came down to "amazing".

yeah, if I had any complaint at all it would be that a little too much of their set was in daylight, but by the encore ("one more time" for the second time) it was pretty much completely dark anyway.

i'm getting goosebumps from re-watching the videos i took. youtube links to come.

this thread is like a kick in the nuts to those of us that want to go and DON'T have tickets.

They were really amazing live at Bercy. Toby otm about the mobile phones being awesome. Also, their costumes turning into red lines at the end was really incredible and very cool.

CAN... NOT... WAIT... TILL... AUGUST

by the encore ("one more time" for the second time)

did they play a mix of human after all/together? that was one of my favourite bits at the bercy (assuming i'm not misremembering, of course).

Also, their costumes turning into red lines at the end was really incredible and very cool.

totally. i really hope they release a dvd at some point.

A DVD would indeed be very fine. The red costumes and the part where there was no more music and the chimes from Aerodynamic started made me go crazy. As did Da funk and just about everything else i guess. Toby, you wouldnt happen to be an irish dude who gave me some whisky ( i think) to drink during the concert? :D

Toby, you wouldnt happen to be an irish dude who gave me some whisky ( i think) to drink during the concert? :D

ha, no!

astonishingly good last night. fantastically upbeat scally-free crowd too.

so, is it worth braving the lollapalooza crowd to see daft punk (plus lcd soundsystem, electric six, and blonde redhead) for 80 bucks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBRaIkEsCU

DVD of this is U + K, they made everything else at Wireless look like a bag of puke.

LCD just seemed like they couldn't quite be bothered cos Murphy couldn't get enough vocals.

i'm not hugely into these guys, but i did see this on TV (the O2 wireless festival, hosted by the cockfarmer from popworld) and thought it was massive - nice good proper marriage of acid and house

It was nice to see A Zane realise he probably wasn't going to get the better of J Murphy and revert to grovelling mode.

see if it had been Alexia Chung interviewing she would've made it a much more convincing joke to assume Murphy was from LA.

Just to add my voices the wireless festival praise - twas superb!

a guy I know met them after "rock ness" and they couldn't understand him and his girlfriend was talking to one of their mums

saw them at pukkelpop, last year. it was great despite it being the end of a long weekend and a bit of a crush

micheal = otm about lcd. really half-arsed.

james murphy is just a crap vocalist. it's too bad because the band is great, egging each other on - it would be great if they had a singer who could egg everyone on, too. instead murphy seems to try to go for some kind of ill-advised ian astbury impersonation interspersed with fey indie asides, very little of which seems to have anything to do with the music being played behind him.

I think If I was any other band on the bill that day I'd just give up. Daft Punk were on a different planet.

their costumes turning into red lines at the end

Roll on, Coney Island. I apologize to anyone near me in the crowd that day if I shit myself.

They were amazing last year. I won't get to see them this year unfortunately.

they're playing Coney? oh man

Hallo. Daft Transformers (Daft Punk's Discovery mashed up with The Transformers Movie) can be found in parts here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/DaftTransformer/video/x2cac5_daft-transformers-digital-love

Love to hear what y'all think...

It is made of fail and poo.

vahid, i bought tix for the berkeley show for 50$. i bought them at the campus, probably to miss the service charges (i forget why now, was a while ago)

good work, son. you still got mine?

ha. show's on my birthday. thought it was on you

;_;

dispwned

vahid (or anyone else), i bought two for july 27th but it turns out i'm in new jersey all summer, is $65 each fair? still pretty expensive for daft punk i know, but ebay sez 86 bucks (plus $15 shipping!) is the lowest and it'd be nice to recoup that shipping/service charge crap ticketmaster pulls, if anyone's interested

http://www.dailymotion.com/DaftTransformer/video/x2cac5_daft-transformers-digital-love

Love to hear what y'all think...

the Harder Better Faster Stronger, Superheroes and Face To Face sync are all pretty good/funny

actually Grimlock mouthing "i need you more than anything in my life" to Kup is the winner.

I saw them on Sunday in Leeds.

The best lighting i have seen - ever. The whole show was fantastic. In parts it was phenomenal, particularly the encore of human after all/one more time/music sounds better with you.

SHITTTT i thought i had floor tickets for the LA show and im in the fucking concourse

my friends are going to kill me ive been telling them were on the floor

i bought tix for seattle and then moved to sf last month so fuckin shitty.

wait... I know someone who bought tickets for Seattle and then moved to SF last month (or maybe it was a month earlier)... and that dude read ILM sometimes.
My official take is that anyone who bought tickets for the Seattle show should find a way up to Seattle... cuz it's gonna be totally awesome!

which i realize is kind of a ridiculous take probably

Yeah as far as I know I am going to be at the Seattle show.

excited

I will be at the Seattle show.

Heading over to the Sports Arena, SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seriously get as close to the front as u can. it's very worth it.

Seattle is going to be so great. i hope it sells out

I hate you all.

: /

HEY

SPENCER I HOPE U HAD AS GOOD A TIME AS I DID DANCIN UP A STORM IN THE CONCOURSE FXXXED UP

I hate you all.

: /

-- The Reverend, Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:30 AM (Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:30 AM) Bookmark Link

REV IT WAS LIKE HEAVEN, BUT THE HEAVEN OF THE FUTURE

OMG so good. Different from Coachella too. They should really set it up in Vegas as a regular thing - at the Luxor of course.

Quite simply the most entertaining thing I have ever experienced.

im sober now but still high as balls from this show

and spencer otm re: vegas... those fucking lights!

im sober now

First time?

you cant zing me rodney I JUST SAW DAFT PUNK

Touche.

They're confirmed for that Las "Vegoose" Halloween festival.

cool. if you watch the vids on youtoob of the la show you can see all these faces that were being displayed in the pyramid that i could not see live.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1369/873906959_03e6f96ef1.jpg

WHEN THEY TURNED AROUND AND IT SAID DAFT PUNK ON THE THE BACK OF THEIR JACKETS THAT WAS AWESOME

very good

the faces were weird. like grandpas babies and people. so weird. weird.

what is the maximum picture size now for posts?

DID U SEE THEM SPENCER?! THE FACES?

the concourse sucked in a lot of ways but i could see all the faces! and the awesome designs on the pyramid!! with the 3D lines and shit. I LOVE U DAFT PUNK

sad that I couldn't go

also awesome: the end right before the encore when everything turned WHIIITEEE

not sure if this will all show up, but the full size image is worth viewing for one guys face:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1193/873880567_ab36a5a39b_o.jpg

lol. i was right in front of the sound guy btw. i want to see me.

great photo but why is it ALL MEN

Not sure, gender split was pretty even.

These people look British!

maybe I am not used to seeing Americans "raving"? =)

all white men too! cept funky face bro.

"there is where teh titties r at". a credit to our race.

the HUMAN race

Did LA have three opening acts like there appear to be for the Seattle show?

LA had Ratatat (terrible)
and then two DJ sets with SebastiAn and Kavinsky (who are awesome)

wait i heard that it was the same setlist/choreography as coachella...

hmmm...

spencer are you positive?

100% Some elements and sections were the same (1st half at least). There are also new effects and the whole encore is new.

I should say 100% positive. I rarely post anything I'm not positive about.

yeah there was a lot of similar stuff the coachella set, but this one was like a half-hour longer.

it was alot of the same samples and stuff of course. i dont think any two sets are going to be exactly the same. they are mixin on the fly.

Daft Punk's live gear setup:
http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=5582237844d39319aaconn9.jpg
http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dafttj6.jpg

the HUMAN race

oh undoubtedly haha

damn what's all them wires about? xpost

that setup is actually surprisingly simpler than what I had imagined. A whole lot less computer monitor screens than I would have though.

err thought.

psyched for friday!!!!!!!!

No computers it would appear, but they were using Jazzmutant Lemurs to control everything.

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-are-daft-punk-actually-playing.html

And Max, I was there on the Concourse as well, row 1 of section 7, which was way in back. Nosebleed, but I saw everything, and it didn't keep me and the gf from dancing through the whole set!

dude's face in that photo is unbelievable. like WAHT

Saw them in Berlin a few weeks ago doing the same set. Lights around stadium in pix here look much better. We had way too much ambient light unfortunately. Cracking set, it was great looking up at stage and seeing them pump fists in the air. The masks and suit thing was incredible, so much better than last year! They also appear to be Jay Z fans as they were doing the pyramid hands thing at the end...

o man i can't wait. i hope the fact that i am in the seated section of keyspan doesn't totally suck.

thanks Spencer!

<3
Steve Shasta

do i want to know the setlist?

or no...?

Hedi Slimane designed their outfits and took some live pictures last month. They are AMAZING:
http://www.hedislimane.com/diary/day.php?m=6&y=2007&d=17

Anyone going to the Seattle show on Sunday or going to the aftershow?

I've put my name down for the free guestlist for the aftershow, but I feel pretty silly going to a club by myself. I'm even spending an extra night in Seattle because of this show (originally I was supposed to leave early monday morning)

I am waaaaay kicking myself over this. I can't even get some scalped tickets and skip work, because I'm in hot water over my chronic tardiness. Is Daft Punk worth getting fired over? I think it may be.

don't worry they'll probably tour again in TEN YEARS

Ya, I know. : (

They're worth it. I'm serious as cancer when I say Daft Punk is... good?? Arse.

those photos are super

how much are the tickets to these shows? i'm contemplating buying a 1-day ticket for lollapalooza, mostly just to see daft punk, and i wondered how that price compares to their solo shows.

it's $50 here (but i paid a little more because i lagged on tix).

what do you think - $80 for daft punk, lcd soundsystem, m.i.a., the rapture, blonde redhead, satellite party, etc

Face value in LA was $65, but they were going for 125-150 on craigslist and then up to 200 outside the venue.

damn! i guess $80 isn't too bad then. it just feels like a lot of money though. i'm not even a huge fan, but i've gotten the impression that this is something you don't want to miss.

Okay, I'm leaving for Seattle... NOW!

Anyone going to the Seattle show on Sunday or going to the aftershow?

i was going to say "what after show?" but then i used this web site called www.google.com and I found this:
http://static.going.com/thumbnails/329/wh524_1500_a0c2045297b0478cd7435f23dceeb641.jpeg

i'm going to the daft punk show, but i don't know about the aftershow. i have to be at work at 6 am the next day :(

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

the show at the greek was amazing

i'm gonna lie down now

stingy, I bought the one day lollapalooza tickets and I work until 4pm that day!

easily the best show i've ever seen. the BART ride back was no joke. there was only a 3 car train and enough people to pack 9 cars. i got so squished i started to have a claustrophobic panic attack and had to get off the train. took 2 hrs to get home :( sorry shasta

anyone go to either of the after parties? walked by asiasf on the way home, but it looked kinda lame and mighty was a bit too far to walk to right then. oh well.

i didn't go to the after parties.

i have to say that it was one of the best shows i've ever seen, too. the venue was perfect.

a group finally makes good on STADIUM HOUSE.

i kept trying to tell a friend that they were one-upping kraftwerk in just about every way conceivable, but he was having none of it.

no joke! the way nearly every element in the music was represented in the light show was just too fucking cool for words, i kept expecting to wake up from the best dream ever

:))

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1157/931631960_e308512869_b_d.jpg

Oh wow!

This is the only reason I'm still excited for Lollapalooza this weekend.

And back from Seattle. While I will readily admit that I have not lived a "full" or "good" life, thus making the bar a little low, that show was easily one of the greatest things that I have ever, ever seen. The people who get to see this show are some of the luckiest people in the world. WOW was basically all I could come up with afterwards.

Clay OTM OTM OTM.

The interview in the latest (or possibly last month's, bookstores around here are kind of apathetic getting magazines in stock on time) Fader confirms that yes, they are filming these shows and plan to release a DVD. Yay!

THAT WAS SO AWESOME

all this wow talk is really making me wish i'd gone to see them in Hyde Park

you can see me and jaxon and mrs. jaxon in that picture!

during the encore they dropped in the Chaka Kahn/Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You" loop.

I noticed that, Steve! I drop that same loop into my ableton sets occasionally. I was really hoping they'd pull out the whole song to end it. NOT THAT I AM COMPLAINING JESUS CHRIST.

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/34385.daftpunk-goldberg4.jpg

I was really hoping they'd pull out the whole song to end it. NOT THAT I AM COMPLAINING JESUS CHRIST.
otm

OMG I'm so excited for the Coney show I might actually eat a Coney.

get a corndog. i don't know why people eat hot dogs when corn dogs are available.

I saw them at the Greek and it was amazing. Stupefying.

Afterwards I felt as though ten fuses in my brain were blown. I had friends asking me "how was it?" and I couldn't explain it.

Now they just need to make another great album. The songs from Human After All were great in concert, much, much better than the album experience.

buy it use it break it fix it

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

write it cut it paste it save it

The songs from Human After All were great in concert, much, much better than the album experience.

otm x 10,000

Made a gif out of images from some guy who was in the rafters at the LA show (not entirely successful, but fun - it's also big, sorry)

http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j53/spencermfi/?action=view¤t=daftpunk.gif

http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j53/spencermfi/?action=view¤t=daftpunk.gif

haha, nevermind

you can flickr .gifs (i think, or at least you used to be able to)

I was using photobucket, I think ILM might not be allowing the images because of their size.

woah, there were camera people there?

we didn't get those side screens with the close ups. it looks like the venue was bigger though.

At the LA gig there were serious cameras and omni-directional mics

Should I go to Montreal to see them again?

I was thinking about spending a few days out there. and the show makes it seriously tempting.
maybe this time I won't end up standing right behind a 6 ft tall guy as well.

My favourite photo from last night:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1386/950219574_4f05e8fbe8.jpg
click the link to see my others.

god damn it come to australia you robot goons

This was the cool effect at the Sports Arena:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/877803244_c280776384_b.jpg

I hate you all.

: /

-- The Reverend, Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:30 AM (Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:30 AM) Bookmark Link

favorite light fx:

1) tron suits
2) all white before encore
3) insane 3-D shapes in pyramid
4) human faces
5) first time neon lit up around the floor

I don't know why I keep coming back to this thread, other than to remind myself that ten years from now, next time they tour the US, I need to go see them.

I don't know why I keep coming back to this thread, other than to remind myself that ten years from now, next time they tour the US, I need to go see them. torture myself.

Daft Punk was so good that I can't even remember what my previous favourite show ever was. It's so good, you'll happily lose your memory.

That was one of the single best things I've ever seen.

Gaaaaaaaaaaawd.
Are there any negative comments on this thread?

They're playing here in Chicago in a few days, and of course I'm going to be out-of-town, GAWD!

biggest negative comment i had was all the douchetards wearing Daft Punk shirts to the concert.

this thread has me so pumped for toronto, in a week. also relieved in that i'm dragging some friends along who are daft-curious at best, and i convinced them to shell out $$.

A friend that I dragged to the show that I had talked into it was pretty sour before the show, hating the DJs etc. He mostly wanted to see the Rapture. His first comment after the show was like "OKAY MAN SO WHICH DAFT PUNK ALBUMS DO I BUY TOMORROW MORNING FIRST THING"

hahaha GOOD. all good portents. still, i will buy back-up drukgs. migod i can't wait now. tec-nol-o-gic bowm bowm bowm bowm ba-bowm bowm bowm tss...

all this wow talk is really making me wish i'd gone to see them in Hyde Park

-- blueski, Monday, 30 July 2007 19:49 (Monday, 30 July 2007 19:49)

Or when you could have come over to Dublin, seen the gig and generally gone on a mad one... Ah well :)

so not helping

Oh dear. I'd hate you to think I was gloating. About getting to see them. Twice. Compared to your never.*

*This will teach you to thrash me at scrabulous!

well i have seen them twice but that was ten years ago

god damn it come to australia you robot goons

-- jabba hands, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:47 (7 hours ago) Link

OTMFM.

Daft Punk fans are creative.

http://www.viralvideochart.com/dailymotion/daft_hands__harder_better_faster_stronger?id=x2cdue

Daft ruled Lollapalooza, as if there was any doubt. I think I also saw Bangalter afterwards at a party, but can't be completely sure.

daft punk were killer, and i watched from outside the fence

also, robot rock is a great album

ok i can't stop watching that daft hands video. Too bad about the mistake near the end though.

unbelievable show

brooklyn is gonna be NUTS

that's awesome that you got to see it from outside the fence, deej. we showed up right at the end of satellite party and made it to probably 25 people back from the front of the stage. it was pretty freakin crowded by the end of the set, as i guess more people tried to push into that area. it was great being so close though, even if you could only really bob your head at that point. also big ups to todd for the rides after the show.

Keyspan Park is totally unsheltered, right?

Trying to decide whether to bring my ungainly umbrella tonight, given the forecast...

stingy: you did see bangalter:

http://www.mas-forever.com/blog/

DEAR GOD, I WAS BAPTIZED BY SOUND AND VISION.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1052/1060652506_26d1dcb8b4_b.jpg

I would like to further add to the (very unanimous - for a reason) opinion that Daft Punk is a live experience (I was at the Toronto show) that one rarely is able to find. It was truly an experience, and very much a spectacle rather than a concert, and that's just alright by me. And yes, heh, I was able to see the real Thomas Bangalter too.

i hadn't noticed that there are mp3s from the bercy concert all over the place - not as good a recording as those from last year, but pretty good all the same.

spency, that pic is insane.

I want to know if people frequenting this thread know that Tony Wilson has died and who he was. Thanx

I have an original pressing of the New Order "Ceremony" 7", does that count?

wtf Bimble. I want to know if your comment has a point, because outside of some sort of sociological experiment in thread-shitting I'm at a loss here.

Dance peoeplez, dey dont no dey history, mang!

spencer stop posting pics youre making me wish i was back there :(

I had a dream last night that Daft Punk played a free show in the Union Square subway station last night. It ruled. Unfortunately all they played was "Love Train" and it was only a dream.

I guess I feel asleep with that eHarmony commercial on.

I loved how it started quite understated with Robot Rock, just white lights nothing fancy. I was kind of disappointed already and then bam bam bam bam it just kept getting better and better with new effects. Truly awesome.

ahhhhhhhh dudes this show (in mtl) was th ebest thing i have ever seen

here is a 19-second edit of it shot on my bad cameraphone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4CSEkipjEA

that was like reliving the best 19 seconds of my life

that was like reliving the best 19 seconds of my life

i saw them in toronto a few weeks ago

it was the best night of my life

Bimble, do you know who merv griffin is you shallow callous pathetic mote?

Coney show was pretty much the highlight of my year…

I had a job in the '90s where I could pretty much go to any show in NYC I wanted to for free, and I ended up, as it was the Chems/Prodigy/Fatboy "dance music is taking over" era, going to a lot of those kind of shows. So, apart from the fact that Discovery is one of my favorite rekkids evah, Thursday night reminded me of how much I missed dance to music that I really like at really loud volumes…

and many of the people there, I suspect, were very much on board for the "dance music is taking over" era, or maybe they were aging ravers… a lot of the energy was similar to any kind of nostalgia-based, good ole days kind of rock show…

pitchfork says no dvd
I am not smiles time.

"pitchfork says no dvd"

FUCK FUCK FUCK

GOOOD..dfrgr56fuyd

From that pfork article:
"The Billboard article also let us in on a little secret: those dudes in Kanye's "Stronger" video aren't, as previously reported, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, but, rather, the actors from Electroma. Not quite "two bums in helmets," but still, tricky."

Maybe they're at home or in the audience during "their" shows too.

I had been wondering about that myself. Why tour when you don't have to?

that would be rad. some residents shit.

Well, The FADER interview says there will be a DVD and there were some serious cameras going at the LA show.

"Why tour when you don't have to?"

Assuming it was them two, it's possible that they, like many if not most musicians, find it gratifiying to perform their music in front of thousands of people that have been/are gagging for it…

Judging from the amount of gear that's actually inside the pyramid, I think TB and GMdHC are pretty much required to be in those suits to work it. I mean, there seems to be a considerable amount of live mixing happening in there.

Yeah it said in the Fader that the other 2 dudes appear at things that Bangalter and Homem Christo want Daft Punk to be at, but aren't able to for some reason. I assume this wouldn't include DP concerts.

but it did include the Fader photoshoot.

August issue of Mixmag has a photo of the gear inside the pyramid btw, you can easily g00gle it.

http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/35353.insidedaftpunk.jpg?

If there's a DVD I'd really like it to be a single static camera with a head on view of the whole set start to finish.

^^^y'know what, I agree with that.

Part of me wished i was in the center bleacher at COney instead of on the field.

they were certainly on tour even if they don't go on stage; they were seen out of costume at some local clubs around the time of lollapalooza

The bad thing about being in the stands at Coney was the big empty space between us and the people on the field. Kind of killed some of the energy. But the views were amazing and people were really into it and dancing and stuff.

I gotta get the hang of this occupying 2 different positions at the same time thing. Would've been awesome at Boadrum too.

Pythagoras to thread.

I know people who are pretty well connected who say "it's not them in the suits", etc etc. I think those people are WRONG. For one thing it's probably much easier to just have it be Thomas and Guy in the suits.

occlam's razor strikes again!

it wouldnt be too weird if it wasnt them though. maybe they just aint that good at live mixing!

It doesn't really matter to me either way, but they're quite good at "live mixing" with tables, but that's not what they're really doing in the Pyramid:

http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/35353.insidedaftpunk.jpg?

whoops, not sure why I reposted that. meant to post this part from pitchfork:

1. ABLETON
"The show revolves around Ableton Live software on custom made super-computers, which we remotely access and control with Behringer BCR2000 midi controllers."

2. SCREENS
"Next to the ethernet remote computer screens there are four Minimoog Voyagers, the classic analog synthesizers. They're a 30-year old design."

3. MOOGS
"We can mix, shuffle, trigger loops, filter, distort samples, EQ in and out, transpose or destroy and deconstruct synth lines. We keep some surprises on the side too!"

4. VISUALS
"There's a direct connection between our rig and the lights and visuals of the show. The light and video engineers can also add or control layers during the show."

5. SYNTHS
"Inside the pyramid are synthesizers and remote controls connected to the rest of the music equipment and computers, which are in rack-mounted towers off stage."

6. TEAMWORK
"Working the music equipment, lighting and video equipment, and building the pyramid for each show takes around 10 people, including both of us."

custom made super-computers

That sounds bad ass.

can't have that shit freezing up now

When does something become a "super computer" anyway?

At Daft Punk my brother half jokingly made a comment about "they probably just got their friends to tour for them" which was followed by a laugh combined with an uneasy moment of pondering. However, it's somewhat reassuring that I did see Thomas Bangalter in person that night. Why he would fly to Toronto to go to a shitty after-party, but not perform would make all the less sense. I saw no Guy though, hmmmmn.

That and with tickets around $60 and around 4-5 thousand people attending theres serious money to be made.

Fact Magazine sez it is indeed called Alive 2007 (boo), it's 2xCD (yay!), a live version of "Harder Better Faster Stronger" will be the single, and maybe- just maybe- it looks like this:

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/siteimages/medium/Andy-Mallalieu---daftpunk.jpg

i'd buy that for a dollar

WORK IT

should i spend $80 on a vegoose ticket to see daft punk only?? on halloween? i might also go see cypress hill.

that a lot of bread but holloween daft punk show sounds like a blast

Max, I forget, have you seen them? If not, then $80 is well worth it. I'm probably going.

yeah i saw em here and it was one of the 10-12 best experiences of my life which is why im even considering

One thing I'm thinking is that the Vegas show won't be as good because the lighting can't be topped from the Sports Arena, plus all the trappings of Vegas might cheapen it? Not sure.

its never as good as your first time, i guess.

but ive also never been to vegas.

also: HALLOWEEN

So I'm thinking really really seriously about going to this. The lineup for Saturday is pretty awesome! MIA! The Stooges even! And Daft Punk! And Las Vegas and Halloween! It'd be a spendy trip but I mean jesus it seems so very worth it.

I have to say I saw Daft Punk at Coachella as well, and the second time was just as good.

god damn it come to australia you robot goons

http://nevereverland.com.au/daft_punk/top.jpg

spencer lets take a plane down under

holy cow!! i am happy!!

the lighting can't be topped from the Sports Arena, plus all the trappings of Vegas might cheapen it? Not sure.

the stadium is a bit outside of town, at least. i saw a lollapalooza there once and the place could really work for Daft Punk.

I want to go.

flight: 200-250
ticket: 80
halfway-decent hotel, 2 nights: 150(?)
misc (drugs, food): 100

hmm

i could kick myself for missing the tickets pre-sale today. ARGH.

max come to melbourne i would totally smoke you out.

haitch come to sydney and convince gaz to blow $130 on a ticket

i will swim across the pacific on the strength of good will and the backs of sea turtles

I might make it over for this! Tho Muscles + Bang Gang = DO NOT WANT.

bought my tickets for saturday vegoose!

So want to go still.

yeah. considering it pretty seriously

Muscles + Bang Gang = DO NOT WANT.

The show starts at 2pm, hopefully Muscles and Van She will be on at 2:45 and 2:15, hours before anyone bothers turning up. Bang Gang will presumably be DJing between all the real bands. Cut Copy + Presets + Sebastian & Kavinsky + Daft Punk is good enough to outweigh the other two!

i will come up if we can convince gaz. can we convince gaz???

i am thinking about this.

Bang Gang DJs are GREAT! Light Sound Dance is one of the mixes of the year and "Around the World Again" is awesome! Van She are great too, "Kelly" is very pretty.

Have you seen Van She live? I have twice, and while the recorded Kelly is indeed pretty, they need to get a lot more interesting before I'll go to a stadium show early to catch them.

(I bet we can't convince Gaz. I have extra tickets though.)

Haven't seen them live (not sure they've played the US), but honestly, having seen Daft Punk, I really don't care to see any more live shows by anyone else!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC515bethg&mode=related&search=

OOH! Live stuff up on their myspazz.

Err...one live track anyways, but GREAT.

Alive 2007 is, and I'm not exaggerating, ridiculously fantastic. You know that perfect sounding audience recording of that great Coachella gig that's been on the net everywhere? I've listened to that hundreds of times because it's so good. But I don't think I'm ever going to listen to it again, because Alive 2007 is lightyears better. It's like the bestest DJ set ever, and it's all their own material too! I'm tellin' ya, this is just ridiculously great.

I need this

preorder ?????

http://i16.tinypic.com/6xvi9f6.jpg

i find it pretty boring

about as boring as that sandal? or even more?

about the same.

first live album is superior

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G0HOmrd6L._SS500_.jpg

The encore, on the night itself: that is one crowd going completely apeshit. *shivers*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQUwlcFHGAo

Or this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkkTnstvmk4

lol

After being underwhelmed by the mp3s that had been floating around, I picked up the 2 disc import and am listening on headphones and am absolutely BLOWN AWAY. Really surprised and am wondering if the leak was even real or was a really bad encoding. I'm hearing all sorts of things and the crowd noise is perfect now.

Also, the encore on the bonus disc is AWESOME - slamming!

Yeah, there were several lousy rips out there at first and I stand by my initial enthousiasm :-)

I also bought the 2-disc version, and yes, it's fucking great. Best live album of at least 2007, if not the last several years.

OK, I've just confirmed that the first mp3s I heard listed as Alive 2007 are not the same recording as on the CD.

It's not even the same show.

The coachella show from 2006 was being passed around as Alive 2007 for quite awhile. The actual release is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Totally, this is such a relief! Actually, the "Alive 2007" leak that I had wasn't anywhere near as good as the Coachella recording.

Where are you people getting the 2-disc version? I can't find anyone with it in stock, not even my Amazon preorder.

AHA (I AM INTERNET DETECTIVE)

If you are, like me, in the States, can't find the 2-disc version, and don't mind giving your email address (or a quickly setup Hotmail or whatever) to Satan, Wal-Mart of all people have it in their online store.

I picked up the only copy I saw at Amoeba Hollywood on Sunday night.

melbourne-ites, how many of you are going on friday? ALL my friends bailed on me, so I'm going on my own. Fuck missing daft punk.

I found my copy of the 2-disc version at the local Border's, it was their only copy though.

how's the book and the fotos in the 2disc-er?

I officially give up trying to look for the double CD version in local Belgian stores and am going to order it abroad now.

Virgin, either let us know it's limited edition or don't make a double CD version at all, if you don't like selling it.

Yeah, exactly- I was this close to full-blown panic mode when I realized Amazon wouldn't be able to honor a preorder I placed months ago and every other reputable shop in the goddamn world was sold out less than a week after the album's release. Or at least release the entire contents of the album in the non-limited format and confine the fanciness to the packaging.

I was assuming that "limited" meant "music industry limited" ie "not limited in any way whatsoever," finding out they meant it was a bit of a shock...

I just ordered it at amazon.fr where they did have it in stock. (.co.uk didn't)

how's the book and the fotos in the 2disc-er?

Honestly? Nothing too special. Nice, sold packaging... but the book is just a whole bunch of photos. No additional test or information, just tour photos. Nice tour photos, but really nothing you'll do more than flip through once.

test = text

If you're just looking for the music and can skip out on the fancy packaging iTunes is selling the whole thing for only about $11, I think. And it's in the iTunes+ format, too.

Amazon has it for 8.99.

woo... i thought i'd missed 1-2 songs of the set, but it turns out all i missed was the extended vocal intro and came in right when the music kicked in. sounds good.

melbourne-ites, how many of you are going on friday?

haitch is going, maybe hie thee to the mongrel thread?

i am going!!

...on the thursday night.

god that was good. the encore!!

The Brisbane schedule is a little weird. The gig runs from 4:30pm until 10:30pm (so you can tuck the kids in?) and then afterwards most of the lineup is djing around the corner.

Still, quite excited.

Finally, finally found a hard copy of the limited version and honestly, I kind of wish I hadn't. The music is wonderful, the encore is sublime, and the photos are nice; too bad they skimped on the part of the packaging that actually holds the damn discs. It's those supertight paper sleeves that are impossible to extricate CDs from without scuffing and scratching them all to hell. So out they come, ripped to .WAV for safekeeping, make my mp3s, and I will never remove them again because doing so will only damage them further. It's like if the first Durutti Column LP had the sandpaper on the inside.

im real happy with the live album

finally an official release...maybe we can see it on some critics list and give this tour even more crediility

This album is like the best comedy record of the year

[*Electronic fart*]
[Rapturous cheers]
[*ffffaaart*]
[Orgiastic applause with some tears and shudders]

I even like Daft Punk and all, but come on.

Thanks!

What were we thinking?

Should someone start a "ask Whiney G. for permission to like an album" thread?

I'm just trying to protect you. These are the warning signs of the robot invasion!

http://www.aintitcool.com/image/GiantRobot.jpg

They will conquer your cities

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/41515094_4d4cc94701.jpg

They will take your women!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/32484717_0bc9477a7a.jpg

They will annoy your pug!

OMG, I had no idea, I thought they were singing about a http://i18.tinypic.com/6ydrnz5.jpg

He's riding two blimps across the atlantic ocean. that's how fucking big that robot is.

it's a rowbot!

Dogs abhor a vacuum.

Also Whiney, do you find all live albums to be comedic? Is cheering for non-electronic sounds less ridiculous?

i got the 1-disc version tonight. is this qualitatively much different from a creatively-mixed "greatest hits" comp? maybe crowd noise doesn't really do it much for me ... or the crowd is just mixed much lower than in "alive 97"?

they do an ill job on "steam machine" though. that keyboard line! sounds like fred falke's been giving lessons ...

apparently there is a 1-disc version out there with the encore? is it worth it spending the $$$ for 10 minutes + a video, though?

also apparently there's a japanese version that includes the bearbricks ...

yours for a mere 55 euros!!!

may we also recommend a pair of socks, customized with a big "X" on them by KAWS, for a mere 25 euros?

these super-busy keyboard arpeggios are getting a little annoying ... do daft punk really need to resort to ripping off kavinsky?

nobody noticed my controversial position

;_;

that's what i get for not reading pitchfork anymore

;_;

It's childish but I never fail to giggle a bit at the repeated "fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck it" in the middle of the live "Technologic."

TS: Alive 2007 vs Minimum-Maximum?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZNvRHXTpJk

would kill* for a HQ version of the Essential Mix.

Suddenly, someone finds three unseen DV sources + great audience audio of an Alive 2007 show and uploads them for free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVqHD4L2tw

+ there's a couple of links to a 15 Gb download version (including Technologic that's missing from the above) in the comments here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DaftPunk/comments/gtoomh/links_to_download_a_preyoutube_complete_render_of/

version 2 - including Technologic and some small fixes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rug34mTWofk

And then there's

Whoa - a great-quality Daft Punk live performance from 2007 has been unearthed, since somebody captured a private live satellite 'wildfeed' of it: https://t.co/aKva8h2OCh

— Simon Carless (@simoncarless) January 24, 2021

Awesome, that's the one I saw.

HOLY CRAP! thia is amazing!

That was a fantastic night, so cool to see it again!

if this show doesn't make your heart beat faster then you're not human, robot.

Haha, I pulled this up on our TV to show my wife, since we were at the show together, and my 9 year-old was entranced the whole time. “These guys are SO much better than Marshmello” which is, in his world, very high praise indeed.

lol <3

Just finished watching it on my TV as well -- wonderful recording/presentation and what a show.

Best concert I've been to! In Berkeley at The Greek

same video but with the audio from the live album (I'm too much of a purist to think this is still a kosher recording but it doesn't not work)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbp2HXOItLU

Man the echo is what makes it!

I know! but some people can't handle the soundboard sound and think it doesn't sound live enough :-/

Pfft.

Daft Punk is kaputt, sadly.

https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-it-quits/

You try wearing those masks 24/7 for years on end. Not feeling so funky now are you?

Nah, they had a good run, but completely understand this.

Weird, it's been almost 7 years since the last album, who knows how long since the last tour, they only appear anonymously. We've been conditioned not to even expect more music/performances from them. Why even formally announce a break up?

Anyway, they should tour as holograms.

they could waited till 2/22/22 at least

It’s been almost eight years since the album and over 13 since the tour, which everyone knows either because they went, or because the band helpfully put the year in the title of each of their live albums

Oh man, thank you to whoever shared that Lolla wildfeed. I went, too. Best show I've ever seen.

great run
were they ever polled here

Why even formally announce a break up?

especially as seeing this bumped and their trending on Twitter just gave me at least three seconds of "NEW ALBUM?" / "THEY"RE DEAD?!" panic

I mean, I'm guessing they formally announced it so people would quit asking them? I don't know why this is so weird to some folks, I'm guessing they were taking their usual slow pace and didn't know what their future was to be, but have since figured it was a good time to call it. I'd rather have an official announcement than just leave it in limbo.

Plus, now they can reunite.

at least they're not pulling a Blue Man Group thing (renting actors/having several versions of the band on tour simultaneously)

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one of the all-time great ilx posts

at least they're not pulling a Blue Man Group thing (renting actors/having several versions of the band on tour simultaneously)

tbf there are at least a dozen Daft Punk tribute bands that apparently just show up on stage in costume and play the Alive 2007 CD while pretending to DJ

Re: #DaftPunk. pic.twitter.com/VQ4XWpP4yx

— James ‘Eagle Fang’ Mielke (@LimitedRunJames) February 22, 2021

eh

you had some good stuff, thanks for your input

Who is that guy and why is he writing fanfic about himself

“One time I had a 100% greenlight to make a video game about Daft Punk, and they were really into it and wanted to do it with me, and the only reason it didn’t happen is because even though they really wanted to do it with me, they wouldn’t work with me and refused to let me use their music. Then I beat up a cowboy and had an ice cream.”

“Also I think they are DJs.”

over/under in years vs LCD soundsystem before they reform?

Goodbye then Daft Punk, the rudest most humourless DJs we ever had at @thesociallondon

— Robin Turner (@robinturner) February 22, 2021

Is that what you call a humbleslag?

those frogs...

Da Funk is one of my earliest musical memories.

over/under in years vs LCD soundsystem before they reform?

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, February 22, 2021 1:15 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

That was my first thought!

Maybe it's just my timeline, but it's been weird to see this spin that RAM was a terrible album or something. It wasn't their greatest and I'd be fine never hearing any of the singles ever again, but I thought it had a lot of great moments.

Maybe it's just my timeline, but it's been weird to see this spin that RAM was a terrible album or something. It wasn't their greatest and I'd be fine never hearing any of the singles ever again, but I thought it had a lot of great moments.

I didn't give it a good listen back in the day - the two biggest singles were all I really listened to again - but someone posted the Grammy AOY acceptance and it's kind of WTF moment for anyone unfamiliar with the album. Like, cool, there's Nile Rodgers, but is that Paul Williams of the Muppet Movie fame? Was this his album?

I think it's a fine record, miles ahead of Humans After All, but not quite on par with Homework and Discovery, which was always an impossible task.

stilt in the wings (sic) at 11:56 22 Feb 21

Who is that guy and why is he writing fanfic about himself

ex EGM writer who moved into development long ago, works at Q Entertainment for Tetsuya Mizuguchi. worked on Lumines a pretty brilliant puzzle/music game hybrid. assuming the DP project was going to be an offshoot of that

Daft Punk was both a revelation in their own right and a gateway to so much music that shaped me.

Here's a mix from 2013 that relaunched Musicophilia after a hiatus, in tribute to their 'Random Access Memories,' of music that might well have shaped them:https://t.co/3xeLBPjztS pic.twitter.com/1DhWvRwIK8

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 22, 2021

I LOVE the stretch on Random Access Memories with the Todd Edwards and Panda Bear songs back to back. Other than that, it's good-not-great

xpost

I looked again and he said it Lumines, Ubisoft was the international publisher of Lumines so it makes sense he would have pitched them

Maybe it's just my timeline, but it's been weird to see this spin that RAM was a terrible album or something.

I've been pretty vocal since the album's release about how much I hate it

if they were cynically going to break up just to reform for big bucks, why wouldn't they have done it five years ago? i mean it could still happen but it doesn't seem calculated (like the lcd soundsystem "break up" did)

Comeback album to be called Daft's Not Dead.

Dafty Duck

I have really strong (not good) opinions and thoughts about RAM, I could write a whole self-righteous wire-on-zappa essay

ram still owns

the fact that they've only made 4 albums & haven't really toured since 2007 kinda implies they aren't coming back

Probably my biggest musical regret is not seeing them live in 2007.

Discovery
Homework

Alive 2007
Essential Mix

RAM

Human After All

yeah would've loved to see one of those 2007 shows. Alive 2007 is pretty much the only thing of theirs that I still listen to

I know the Essential Mix isn't an album and I know they have other live mixes in circulation but I have played the Essential Mix too many times to count and consider it worthy of ranking

LCD said “we’re going to keep working together and will play live again, but this is the end of a big album / tour cycle so here’s a hometown show in a 3,000 cap room walking distance from our homes, before we go off to do less prominent stuff for a while” wow so cynical, what a ripoff

(then scalpers and bots bought all the tickets, so they added a show for real fans, then scakpers and bots bought them all

(then they added and sold out three more shows and had to end up playing Madison Square Garden as the sixth (19,000 cap) just to sell legit tickets to meet demand. that old cynical trick of professional musicians selling tickets to watch them perform.)

the fact that they've only made 4 albums & haven't really toured since 2007 kinda implies they aren't coming back

Not necessarily. Touring aside, it was eight years between HAA and RAM, so it wouldn't have been that unfathomable that we could have seen another new record.

Human After All is by far the worst album but so many of its tracks were effective in Alive 2007 when mashed up with other things. "Steam Machine" is borderline unlistenable on its own but when overlaid on "Too Long" and segued into "Around the World"... so good

justice 4 human after all, "steam machine" rules

Man, the whole (de)evolution of LCD critical appraisal is so weird to me and another topic for another day. Things went really rapidly from "hey, maybe LCD was slightly overrated" to "LCD was always terrible and everything they do is awful".

maybe this is a dumb question but how much of their live show was "live"? i.e. what are they actually doing up there on the stage beside dance around?

Absolutely, skip otm. HAA is still my least favorite of their records, but seeing that 2007 show really warmed me to large chunks of it.

LCD said “we’re going to keep working together and will play live again, but this is the end of a big album / tour cycle so here’s a hometown show in a 3,000 cap room walking distance from our homes, before we go off to do less prominent stuff for a while” wow so cynical, what a ripoff

(then scalpers and bots bought all the tickets, so they added a show for real fans, then scakpers and bots bought them all

(then they added and sold out three more shows and had to end up playing Madison Square Garden as the sixth (19,000 cap) just to sell legit tickets to meet demand. that old cynical trick of professional musicians selling tickets to watch them perform.)

― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, February 22, 2021 1:42 PM (twenty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

cool except you left out the relevant bit when they reunited five years after "breaking up" which is what multiple people have been claiming daft punk is setting up to do

skip, the various 2006/2007 shows are definitely different. elements get repeated, stretched, added and removed, even though the basic structure remains the same

Not necessarily. Touring aside, it was eight years between HAA and RAM, so it wouldn't have been that unfathomable that we could have seen another new record.

for sure, I was half-expecting them to announce something soon-ish, but I can't think of too many bands that went inactive for years and THEN said "yeah, we're splitting" which then reformed 5 years later

LCD said “we’re going to keep working together and will play live again

LCD Soundsystem is a different situation entirely, their music was sort of based on this notion of "lets enjoy this moment in time because nothing lasts" which I think colored how people perceived their reformation

there are a million articles from the time of the break up and the time of the reunion that frame what happened as a "break up" or the band quitting, including quotes from murphy using those words

bottom line is that sending out a press release saying your band is breaking up does a few things and not much else:
1) - Stops journalists from asking if you're still in that band (but not if you're getting back together)
2) - Trigger clauses in your extant contracts that require you to pay back X cash and/or walk away
3) - Provides free publicity and allows you to play even larger venues for longer runs when you reform

seeing as DP didn't really need any of those concerns satisfied afaik, i'm unsure what the point of breaking up is?

maybe they really were human after all

Here was the 2011 LCD post announcing its breakup:

good people of earth:


lcd soundsystem are playing madison square garden on april 2nd, and it will be our last show ever. we are retiring from the game. gettin' out. movin' on. but for just one more night, we will be playing with friends and family for nearly 3 hours -- playing stuff we've never played before and going out with a bang. and we'd like you to be there.

if you would, we'd love it if people all came in white. or black. or black and white. and come ready to have fun, please. and come early, as the festivities will be opened by our favorites, liquid liquid. yes: liquid liquid.

if it's a funeral, let's have the best funeral ever!!!

Sounds pretty final.

I'm still mad. It was inevitable that whatever form of electronic music got popular in the US would be terrible, but a lot of it drew from Daft Punk so their breakup is incomplete without an apology.

lol

sorry for Robot Rocking

if this robot's a rocking

I guess I just don't understand why people still get so angry about bands reforming after they announce a break-up, cynical seeming to the outsider or not. Just seems so weird to get pissed off about it, especially when you don't see the same anger for, say, a sculptor or an author returning with something new after saying they were going to retire. People change their minds, miss the stage, whatever.

LCD Soundsystem is a different situation entirely, their music was sort of based on this notion of "lets enjoy this moment in time because nothing lasts"

― frogbs, Monday, February 22, 2021 3:00 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

To be fair, Daft Punk isn't entirely different in that regard!

xp I think like 95% of it was the fact that LCD Soundsystem made a huge deal out of breaking up and THE LAST SHOW, including a 5x LP boxset and a movie with its own theatrical run, I definitely understand why people were cynical when they found out they didn't really mean it

Oh I definitely think the LCD one was more cynical than most, don't get me wrong, but it just seems hardly worth getting worked up over. We've seen so many iterations of the not actual "farewell tour" thing by this point, it's almost expected ime.

yeah I felt a bit manipulated but I was glad they were back

Forgot how great the added encore to the 07 show was.

I will say it was pretty cool when those videos made the rounds detailing how large portions of DP tunes were lifted wholesale from obscure French artists and pretty much no one cared. feel like in a different era that would've been a huge deal.

Can you sue a robot?

The LCD thing was extra annoying because they only waited five years, which is just a normal amount of time for some acts to go between albums. Hell, it's been 20 years since the last proper Peter Gabriel album, but I doubt he's been fielding incessant phone calls about it.

xp I missed those, I heard the 'original' of crescendolls on the radio the other day and I was a bit :(

xps for the one guy out there who didn't already know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AKrwna2C8

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…I believe that this is true at least vis-a-vis the studio record canon, not w/r/t mixes or when they DJed which I know nothing of…like, the music that was most fecund for them is house and disco, not at all redoubts for "no girls allowed" shit, quite the opposite… like they would have rather put Julian Goddamn Casablancas or Panda Bear instead of any notable woman singer… but they never did…

I went to the Coney Island show in '07, and it was one of the best nights of music in my life…

maybe this is a dumb question but how much of their live show was "live"? i.e. what are they actually doing up there on the stage beside dance around?

― skip, Monday, February 22, 2021 1:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

My understanding is that most of the tracks were already lined up in Ableton, synced up with some sequenced parts fed into analog synths, and most of what they did onstage involved mixing all that and twiddling knobs (filtering + stutter effects). So it wasn't simply hitting play on a backing track and miming along but it was still pretty railroaded.

That's re: the Alive 2006/2007 tour. I'm sure their actual DJ sets were more spontaneous

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…

yeah I agree for the most part — there is "High Life" though!

it kinda pissed me off when Romanthony died and they didn't publicly acknowledge it at all (as far as I know)

many xps while I looked for the link on wayback

Here was the 2011 LCD post announcing its breakup:

I totally misremembered that the five Terminal 5 shows got added, and then added to, after MSG got scalped (with tickets going for $11,000!), not the other way around. But still, yeah he said that they'd record and play live on a small scale only in New York, then over six years later decided to tour again after all. People change their minds about things sometimes! Especially when the circumstances around which they made a statement changed mere days after they made it, six years earlier.

i’m sure this {ed: adding the smaller shows} will wind someone up somewhere (“but i paid $600 for one seat at MSG!!!) or seem like some shitty “plan” to someone else (“they were gonna do it all along!!! it’s all a big retirement money plan to bilk the fans!!!”) or something else that someone who theoretically likes our band thinks (why are you trying to buy a ticket?? how could you even listen to a band that you think is capable of some of this shit!??)

Anyway Daft Punk's last tour was the best live performance ever by humans or robots, and that debuted as a Coachella headline. It's hard to imagine any way in which "retiring" 13 years later in the middle of a pandemic, and "unretiring" fifteen years after the tour when people can go to festivals again is going to help them get a better gig.

seeing as DP didn't really need any of those concerns satisfied afaik, i'm unsure what the point of breaking up is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVfZAZdIUs

hearing this for the first time if you weren't familiar with it before Robot Rock has to be one of the most jarring "WTF sample" moments.

adding myself to the list of ilxors who were at that 2007 Chicago Lollapalooza show

xp yeah I'm cool with sampling in general but that was a bridge too far, even shitty vaporwave producers put more effort into it than that

xp I wonder if doesn’t have something to do with getting rid of the robot schtick and being able to release high profile records under their own names

Was also at the 2007 Chicago show. Distinctly remember that there were no other bands I was interested in that day and still bought the ticket w/out hesitation. *checks lineup* Not a strong lineup for that Friday! (LCD, MIA, Femi, Rapture...)

xp I wonder if doesn’t have something to do with getting rid of the robot schtick and being able to release high profile records under their own names

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, February 22, 2021 5:34 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bangalter released that one track in the midst of the Ed Banger mania that was pretty good.

seeing as DP didn't really need any of those concerns satisfied afaik, i'm unsure what the point of breaking up is

maybe they fell out with each other, or one or both of them no longer feels motivated to create music, or their manager kept hassling them about doing a record and they split up just because they were sick of his texts

or just to give it a nice theatrical ending.

sampling effort, the way you know a sample is good or not

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…

not defending ram here which is a different story but i always thought the vocals were pretty androgynous?

Well shit. Saw them at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in 2007. Best live show of all time. Was hoping they'd storm back with a house record, but alas.

sampling effort, the way you know a sample is good or not

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, February 22, 2021 4:09 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bangalter’s gonna keep doing the music for gaspar noe films and wanted to make sure his calendar was clear

I never knew this. WOW!

Thank you, Daft Punk. https://t.co/I9rusDIrbZ

— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) February 22, 2021

or one or both of them no longer feels motivated to create music

just watched Epilogue: haven't seen Electroma, and assume it is an outtake from that. but if not and they went to a desert to film this during the pandemic, seems clear that the message is that Thomas is the one who wants to quit (also less likely since he's always been more prolific outside of the band).

lol xp to mh

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/daft-punk-kanye-west-coachella-unpublished-interview-1234912789/

seems clear that the message is that Thomas is the one who wants to quit (also less likely since he's always been more prolific outside of the band).

we've established that I have trouble reading your posts and it's happened again - here with the parenthetical

it doesn't really mean anything either way, just guessing that if one of them were dried up creatively in 2021, it'd more likely be the one who's generally done less music outside the group. (even Le Knight Club was a duo, and mainly filtered disco loops...)

they've both done collabs independently of the other in the past few years - Thomas with the Arcade Fire, Guy-Man with the Weeknd and Charlotte Gainsbourg

was the Parcels track the last released thing that they worked on together??

afaik, but I didn't know Guy-Man had done Weeknd stuff without Bangalter

he co-wrote & produced one track on My Dear Melancholy along with Gesaffelstein. what i didn't know is that he co-wrote & produced Kavinsky's "Nightcall"!

neither has been that prolific with solo collaborations really, they've both done about the same amount

had a couple of co-writes on the Tellier album he produced too

Bangalter has done solo stuff (and a little more writing?) as well as other collabs, was my idle half-thought. but it turns out the video is taken directly from the end of Electroma, so no runes to scry either way.

Digging to catch up on the bits they've done since Parcels (in 2017):

Thomas produced and co-wrote Supercherie (2018, kinda Get Lucky-lite) and produced, co-wrote, played synth and sang on L'autre Paradis (2019) for -M-.
Guy-Man wrote the music, co-wrote the lyrics and produced Rest by Charlotte Gainsbourg (2017, mixed by the other bloke from Le Knight Club), and Hurt You (2018) is that Weeknd song with Gesaffelstein.

also was not aware that Natalie Imbruglia had released a cover of Instant Crush

I kind of wonder if the continuity they’ve had since the large-scale festival and arena shows that’s followed through to appearing in the helmets in a variety of tv performances and collaborations has kind of boxed-in the brand. The between-album shifts and minor reinventions are a little trickier to pull off when you’re yoked to the robot helmet shtick?

Random Access was the biggest style shift of all, played with real humans in contrast to the robot helmet schtick. Probably would have been time for a major helmet redesign if they made another record, or just go full anonymous - the helmets were a very minor part of the image when they debuted for Discovery, given the Interstella 5555 videos.

https://miro.medium.com/max/800/1*38WCDE3LajjMlasKnhAFiA.gif

li'l cuties

The Helmets were actually designed for the Discovery era. Interstella 5555 doesn’t feature them much since the idea for the anime was developed with TOEI in the early stages of Discovery and the helmets came after, developed by Alterian. At one point the helmet designs even had hair.

Here’s a short interview with helmet creator Tony Gardner, where you can see the hair design and explaining the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtjucCWeOf4

Also more info with some early nsfw photoshoots:

http://alterianinc.com/creative-boom-daft-punks-discovery-at-20-collaborators-on-crafting-the-iconic-robot-look-and-revolution/

was this already posted?

Original Daft Punk helmets under construction by Alterian Inc. pic.twitter.com/Ja3mF5M16b

— Daft Punk Fandom🤖🤖 (@Daft_Wub) February 18, 2021