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Just one tool used in the making – “crafting” might be a better term – of this album. They aren’t an instrument, they are a tool. That said, computers aren’t the basis for composition. Such modern studio perfectionists as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter are forced to use computers in order to find the perfect sounds, and the duo has admitted as much. Now, this may seem odd if you consider the French duo’s comments about how dehumanized the process of making music has become. But they’re still robots, meaning that this music is as meticulous, as precise and fed through as much calculus as anything the Daft Punk have released. Two androids made dance music with emotion, basically. Robinson to play drums – the duo go backwards in order to move forwards, and make a statement. Throwing out the samples (apart from album-closer ‘Contact’), recording on analog and bringing in Nile Rodgers to play guitar, Nathan East to play bass and J.R. Even if they’re the reason that, say, Skrillex has a career. Naturally, if EDM is what’s de rigueur, then Daft Punk can’t make an EDM record. Aside from the vocoder’ed vocals, you’d be hard-pressed (at least, on the surface) to believe this album came from the same guys who created the ecstasy-filled ‘One More Time.’īut then again, this is Daft Punk we’re talking about – the group that never does the same thing twice and rarely follows trends. Which makes sense, not only because Memories is a disco record, but also because disco was the precursor to EDM. Daft Punk have not only made a career-defining album, but the smartest dance album since disco.

Chilly Gonzales states that he doesn’t usually like to collaborate, but made an exception for “people who are in possession of some true key to the zeitgeist.” DJ Falcon simply stated that, “For me, they never disappoint.”īut perhaps the most hyperbolic statement about this album is also the simplest: that every hyperbolic statement may all be true. Todd Edwards claims that he moved from New Jersey to L.A.

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Just look at “The Collaborators” video series about the making of the pair’s new record, Random Access Memories, and you’ll find the artists themselves tripping over each other to make the most exaggerated assertions. You can set aside all the praise coming from critics, as much as that confirms my point. Apparently it’s impossible to talk about Daft Punk without hyperbole.

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