“It’s not that we can’t make crazy futuristic sounding stuff,” Guy-Manuel adds. “We wanted to do what we used to do with machines and samplers,” Bangalter explains, “but with people.” ![]() In fact, Daft Punk’s new album contains only one sample altogether, eschewing a once fundamental source of their sound for live studio musicians who had played with the likes of Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton. In an age in which electronic music production has never been more digital, it makes all too much sense that the arguable forefathers of the current EDM movement would go entirely analog. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo also found time to reconnect with good friend Kanye West to lay down beats on two songs in a “raw” jam session replete with improvised lyrics and primal screams. The two songs featuring Pharrell apparently came together after the rapper offered to contribute in any way – even play tambourine – at a release party for Madonna. It has a sense of movement, maybe, but it’s not the same vibe as going into these studios that contain specific things.” Today, electronic music is made in airports and hotel rooms, by DJs traveling. “They’re vials being filled up with life. “There are songs on the album that traveled into five studios over two and a half years,” Bangalter says. Their first studio album since 2005’s Human After All came together in numerous studios across the globe over the five years that followed. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo describe “a sense of searching for a record hadn’t done” in the wake of their now-legendary Alive 2007 tour. ![]() After thrilling festival-goers at Coachella with a surprise video preview of their unbelievably funky lead single “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk sat down with Rolling Stone for their first exclusive interview since announcing the release of their forthcoming album, Random Access Memories.Ĭheck out the track-list and new details on the album that Daft Punk describes as “drawing a parallel between the brain and a hard drive” after the break.
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