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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=curvm4kfrZ4

Sounds so great. Rumours are the album's going to be out in May.

No computers or owt, all the instruments were actually played by the guys themselves.

Hope there's at least a bit of lovely vocoder in there though.

according to a Youtube comment anyway.

Quite a few fake leaks on there too, this one ain't bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl88l-KmvxY

Or even the full song. That 15 second snippet will do:
http://hypem.com/track/1tx2a/Daft+Punk+-+No+End+(We+Plants+Are+Happy+Plants+Remix)

http://pitchfork.com/news/48797-daft-punks-new-album-is-called-random-access-memories-out-may-21-listed-on-itunes/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TKKGrKaix44

Which means I'm a bit weird. Cannot wait.

this is cool http://randomaccessmemories.com

Next up...they're doing this whole tease thing quite well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yf2bu0P_4Vo

Nile Rodgers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da_Yp9BOCaI&feature=player_embedded

I really, really want to hear the full thing, sounds so amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ejWq9RR7Ec

Jeez this is funky.

https://soundcloud.com/hoodinternet/the-hood-internet-suit-and

ewwwwww.

It's sexy nice.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-daft-punk-reveal-secrets-of-new-album-20130413

I'm a bit apprehensive about this.

Where they throw whatever made them unique in the first place out of the window to try write some 'proper' songwriterly songs with big choruses (and proper haircuts too, natch) laser-guided for daytime commercial radio.

You're best when you're beaming squelchy technicolour bangers from the future through your synths, Daft Punk.

http://youtu.be/pefow5Kp_W4

Out Tomorrow apparently!!!1

i really think they've taken the whole teaser/trailer/hype thing to its absolute nadir. horribly needy.

http://kyleread.tumblr.com/post/48019451658/funkified-get-lucky-daft-punk-oh-god-its-the

and Human After All 4.9??

then they leave on their own, and they cry and they want to die.

https://vine.co/v/bFQx23mmUBp

sick of hearing about them again

https://soundcloud.com/bangbangplaylist/daft-punk-get-lucky-feat

i can imagine how the longer version could add a much needed funky breakdown/outro

also sounds like one of those singles that's underwhelming alone but better on the album, because i don't hate it. but i don't really feel like putting it on again.

http://www.thisismyjam.com/tengblad/_5ez9f2p

And it's great, as expected, though doesn't do a whole lot more than we already knew.
I hope the LP version doesn't fade out as the synth solo is gearing up like this edit does...

I just don't know why so many people bought into the hype

Can't really get behind those verses, they're just a bit limp, and the actual music doesn't really change throughout?

That said, the best Daft Punk tracks are pleasure center overloads (with Alive 2007 succeeding by trimming all but those moments) and Get Lucky feels kinda grounded. The only bit where it threatens to take off is when the vocoder kicks in.

Quite like it tbh

that 'fake' one is gone now, but didn't that also have a little synth part that faded out at the end? and the vocals are bad on this real one too. i just don't know anymore.

the only major gripe for me is that the combo of lyrics and Pharell's voice make the singing in that first verse horrendously clunky. I only have a basic knowledge in music production/mixing but it just sounds really amateur.

Having said that, I think the singing in the prechorus, chorus and even the second verse is funky enough, and the vocoder section's just ace. It really is only that first verse that's making me cringe...

pesky regional copyright bullshit

Give Life Back to Music
“One of the ambitions of this disc is to provide both something light and elegant. Here is John Robinson Jr., who plays drums. He was present on the Off The Wall album by Michael Jackson. What’s great in a performance like this is the infinity of possible shades: something we had not used with the electronic programming … Albums produced by Quincy Jones have always fascinated us by their precision ultimate that has never been achieved by any technology whatsoever. It’s a little basic difference between Thriller and Bad. In the latter, the securities are of a very high level, but the performances are less qualified.”

The Game of Love
“We sing with vocoders. At a time when human voices are processed to become robotic, we found it exciting to make a more human as possible robotic voice. The idea of ??artificial intelligence approaches the man … An emotion of something that is not human but tries to be.”

Giorgio by Moroder
“We met several years ago and has always been for us a kind of mythical figure, a little mysterious. His personal journey followed the music. The idea came to us based on an interview we conducted. The voice of Giorgio Moroder was recorded with multiple microphones several different times … So we finally recorded about three hours of interviews in which he recounts his life as a musician. This piece is a metaphor for musical freedom: we have always tried to break down the barriers between genres, between good and bad taste, the stuff connected and unconnected. Giorgio is a bit of a model of its kind. He was born in a small provincial town, began studying music in hotel lounges, the opening act for Johnny Hallyday, starts doing stuff progressive rock. To hear him say, in 72 years, “ah, I made ??electronic music 40 years ago,” it’s fascinating.”

Within
“Gonzales plays the piano on the song. He’s a friend and a great pianist, one of the best musicians of his generation. “Within” is one of the first songs we recorded. It is very minimal: a little rhythm section, bass, piano. Creating the most with very little, that is the idea behind this title.”

Instant Crush
“Julian Casablancas of The Strokes sings. We are both great fans and we learned that he wanted to meet us. It was this demo that was around, he came, he listened and he was thoroughly impressive! It has a kind of gift. We, basically, we love rock and the concept of the rock band, but there were so many strong things that the emergence of a new voice at one point became difficult. Recently, The Strokes and MGMT – with dimensions and sensitivities – succeeded. Julian has a punk rock side, a super strong emotional impact in its melodies. It was important to have this album to feel surrounded by our contemporaries.”

Lose Yourself to Dance
“This piece is the simplest definition of our desire: an album and worked very simple at the same time, with a low axis, drums, guitar – and robots! This is the opposite of something overproduced. Our fantasy was to redo the dance music with drums … The record that way has brought us enormous satisfaction, we are proud that it is a real drums on the album and not a box to rhythms. There are two drummers on the disk: John Robinson Jr., who holds the record for the most recorded drummer in the world, and Omar Hakim, who started with Stevie Wonder in 16 years …”

Touch
“This piece is the crux of the album. It is the starting point of the entire disk that holds the meeting with Paul Williams. A sound engineer we know we presented. Paul Williams [composer of film music, including "Phantom of the Paradise" and actor] visited us in the studio. From this meeting was born something very cinematic, very narrative. “Touch” clearly defines the psychedelic aspect of Random Access Memories. This piece has 250 tracks, so this is the most complicated, the most crazy.”

Get Lucky
“Pharrell Williams sings this song: it was natural to invite our album. It is a born performer, complete, which produces a lot of elegance. It has not always had the opportunity to show he could be a great singer, so that we can include it in the pantheon of legendary performers. There is no imaginary line that separate the great artists of the past and present who are all worse than before. We wanted to give the impression of being in a capsule in the studio, isolated from the world. One can believe in 1978, but our idea is to travel this music in the present and in the future, see what happens and see if this enthusiasm is contagious.”

Beyond
“Another piece done with Paul Williams who wrote the lyrics. It is a cosmic super song with very poetic lyrics and very pure. We talked a lot with Paul Williams of the direction of this album, and it was worth it to put words to our ideas.”

Motherboard
“A futuristic piece, which could be the year 4000 …”

Fragments of Time
“Our reunion with Todd Edwards [composer house] after Discovery.”

Doin’ it Right
“The angelic voice is Panda Bear [group Animal Collective]. We love what he’s doing solo, as well as the approach of his group. This piece – the only electronic song on the album – is the last recorded. The result is a kind of relaxation. Probably the title once the most futuristic and contemporary.”

Contact
“A piece made with DJ Falcon and recorded during the last mission of NASA’s Apollo 17 voice is that of Captain Eugene Cernan, the last man to have gone to the moon. It is a voice that literally just space. And it tells speaks for itself …”

http://potholesinmyblog.com/daft-punk-offer-track-by-track-breakdown-of-random-access-memories/2/

No.1 in 13 of them. This promo campaign has worked a treat eh? Be interested to see where it'll end up in the Official UK Chart, given it will have been out for just over 48 hours...

Quite enjoyed it, hardly a classic but better than Da Funk. 6/10

it's an overweight uncle who's had too much of the free bar and is trying to pull a teenage bridesmaid of a song

it's a fumbling 5am desperate baldy on a booze cruise of a song

it's a 7 vodka high girlie house party at stupid o'clock on repeat on spotify at full volume when you're trying to get to sleep of a song

to many people this probably makes it the soundtrack of their summer 'good times' 2013

but fuck me my first instinct was right, it is a TOTAL have you ever been to a Harvester before? of a song

"Waited up all night to get lucky"
eurgh

Desperate to hear the album version now. The wait never ends!

Probably one of the reasons I'm really enjoying this. I do like disco though.

Although it's got too much Pharrell for my liking, and not enough vocoders (proper robots, proper vocoders, etc). Hopefully the full album version has bit more going on. Still very excited about the album though!

Has made me super excited for a new Daft Punk album. I've never even particularly bothered with any of their stuff before aside from the hits. Well done record label, really.

Daft Punk have a top 3 single.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zV2GA63HEGk#t=9m30s

they don't know all the words

and singing over it, stopping every few seconds to say "what?". Ouch

into a faintly embarrassing propaganda mission on the cusp of going awry

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/04/21/daft-punk-get-lucky-unedited-version/

and why Pharrel Williams on guest vocals? Pitbull or Sean Paul could have done a much better job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SkCn-iWLiSE

I hope to hell that the other tracks are somewhere near as good as this.

Personally I wouldn't have been arsed if Pharel sang on every song, as a temporary singer for one album.

0 results??!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/4a150cb2342aed2abc456f5470e73f74/tumblr_mlpoe794IU1r4lbxeo1_1280.jpg

"In the end, they wound up making the “Daft Punk sucks!” record themselves... It’s extremely impressive musically, weirdly pedantic in places - unless you think there’s merit in listening to Giorgio Moroder haltingly talk about his early days as a German club warrior over a click track - and probably a little overgenerous to guys like Panda Bear, who basically gets to sneak a solo track onto one of the most anticipated albums of the past decade. I would say the disco-connoisseur-y songs outnumber the potential pop smashes by a ratio of about 4 to 1, but there are definitely a couple of potential pop smashes. I have no idea who they imagine Random Access Memories being for, besides themselves, but there is something seductive about that, the band’s ability to do something so totally, breathtakingly self-indulgent - it makes you want to try to see it their way.
“It’s maybe not ‘Kill the father,” Bangalter says. “But it’s like: Things have got to move on.”

Needless to say they haven't gone down the cheery disco route -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T5Cp55MvX54#!

http://thequietus.com/articles/12144-daft-punk-random-access-memories-track-by-track-preview

http://nialler9.com/first-listen-daft-punk-random-access-memories/

shame, really. at least we'll always have the memories of the promo videos and marketing

http://www.electroitalia.it/daft-punk-giorgio-by-moroder-leaked/

Monday evening at some point supposedly.

crikey

singing 'Get Lucky' as a three-headed man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bcnVU_NAU