Daft Punk Daft Punk Repost Repost

I def have been missing out.



This post has given me a lot of information:
A) I don't check the blogs enough
B) Daft Punk bloggers are putting out a remix compilation
C) I just found 9 new blogs

First of all, the superfrancos put out a remix album but exclusive to Japan (why does that happen all the time?) and it seems like folks got a little unhappy at the fact that they didn't live a Tokyo trainride away from the record store. As a result, this group of blogs did something about it: each one of them picked a song (or got dealt) a track and it's their job to find a producer to remix their particular track. The datebook reads 19May to say who is their producer, and put out a 128kbps version and then 20May put the song out... just in time for the weekend. Sonotheque are you listening???

Second of all:

01. Human After All —> Chosen by Disco Demons
02. The Prime Time Of Your Life —> Chosen by Data Sapiens
03. Robot Rock —> Chosen by The Cold Cut
04. Steam Machine —> Chosen by Cream Team
05. Make Love —> Chosen by Sheena Beaston
06. The Brainwasher —> Chosen by Danger! Danger!
07. On/Off —> Chosen by The Lemur Blog
08. Television Rules The Nation —> Chosen by Noise Porn
09. Technologic —> Chosen by Pretty Much Amazing
10. Emotion —> Chosen by Binary

That's it. Excuse my tighter pants.

20May09 Edit:
Here it is: clicky.

Playing Live

So last night I went to the Empty Bottle with a little group of folk and made it to about the door to check out Guns n' Bombs. I guess they had just came on, but everyone outside was saying that there wasn't anybody really inside, let alone people dancing. My prediction was incorrect... I guess everybody had gone to darkwave. By now it was about 12:30 and it wasn't worth it to go. Interesting.

Furthermore, there was a guy from Abe Vigoda that we were talking to was basically slamming New Rave in general saying that it it's annoying, isn't original, and just a strange phenomenon in general. People were expecting me to really dig into this guy because they know that I really like the stuff, but what he was saying was true. There is a lot of stuff out there that falls into the genre that gets repetitive. I don't know how true that is for GnB, seeing as I do think their remix style has some originality. Thinking about it today, there is a rift between the punk crowd and the electro crowd, which could be an easy excuse to explain away the guy's comments. However he said that Justice just uses Ableton and that's basically it. Really? ...really? Looking online this morning, I see similar info here and here saying they use Ableton, a microKorg, a Lemur, and some pioneer cdj's. I don't know what I should think about that. For comparison purposes a la the googlepedia:

Justice:
Live:
Ableton
JazzMutant Lemur
Korg microKontrol
Pioneer CDJ-1000's
Studio:
Apogee Ensemble
Cubase SX
GarageBand
cre.dit

Daft Punk:
Live:
Ableton Live
Behringer BCR2000 MIDI controllers
(4) miniMoog Voyagers
Studio:
Roland TR-909, TR-808
Emu 3, ARP Odyssey, AMS Phasers
Among other stuff
cr.ed.it

Soulwax:
Live:
Regular drums and crazy synths for Nite Versions.
Studio:
Uhh.. watch this:


By the way, one of the girls in our group, Eleni, said the #1 song in Brazil while she was there was this:

The English Velvet

Yesterday I received my periodically-arriving music sampler from Fabric. You pay an auto-fee of £8 (i think) and this club/label sends you a mix. Granted I don't plan on ever queuing up there anytime soon to pay 5 quid for a nukey brown (P.S. Brits hate the stuff), but their mixes from Cut Copy, Diplo, Spank Rock, Devlin & Darko, etc. are true winners. Next one coming is from Simian Mobile Disco. I've got some DnB turkeys most recently, however there was a diamond in the rough (I'm not a fan of drum n' bass) from Noisia:

Noisia - Brown Time

I think my dislike of DnB stems from the fact that I like to dance to tracks (versus having a seizure) and that the focus is on the beat, rather on the song as a whole. Maybe it's too complicated for me and I like that poppy shit. Probably the closest I've come to liking it would be The Prodigy, although their stuff is all over the place.



The Prodigy - Ruff In the Jungle Bizness .........credit

So back to Fabric. The other track that I wasn't aware of that is simply badass (according to spellcheck, badass is supposed to be hyphenated to bad-ass) is, naturally



Daft Punk - Face to Face (mixed in).

Shit this song is so tight I can't believe I didn't post it earlier. Now that I installed my new Blaupunkt soundsystem in the Accord, it will be even more bad-ass.