MusicBox

Post by **Miauz55555** » Mon 30. Nov 2015, 20:52

JAMproject: THE HERO
Anime: One Punch Man

Edit: removed death link; replaced it with a cover: Tsuko G - The Hero

Reini · Post by **Reini** » Thu 10. Dec 2015, 22:03

a litlle bit HELLO from the other side.......

Sernemissza · Post by **Sernemissza** » Thu 17. Dec 2015, 16:50

Post by **Miauz55555** » Fri 18. Dec 2015, 00:41

One of my favorite underdogs from Sweden. You can finde all there songs on spotify.
Sound of a revolution - Raise your voice

There newest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idPzoevL9vY

Xac · Post by **Xac** » Fri 18. Dec 2015, 10:59

This one made me smile...

Colin Hay, Beautiful World:

Cat1981England · Post by **Cat1981England** » Sun 20. Dec 2015, 08:11

Post by **Pegasus** » Sun 20. Dec 2015, 21:06

Been putting off for quite awhile now getting back to some spotlight posts here, but after watching a documentary about them by BBC Worldwide France last week, it finally prompted me to make good on an old, self-imposed debt to this thread I undertook a few years back to talk about the french duo Daft Punk, so here we are. Oh, and btw, the docu's called Daft Punk: Unchained, I believe, and it was interesting, well produced and pretty thorough in everything it covered, too, at least from the perspective of someone familiar with most of the subject matter, so I'd recommend checking it out, if given the chance n' so inclined.

As a primer, Daft Punk is an electronic music band/act comprised of two Parisians, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, both now about 40 years old. Since their take-off in the mid-90s and all through the Naughts, they've become notable both for their innovative approach to music composition, based on remixing, reappropriating or fusing of elements from genres and samples of previous eras (funk, house, trance, disco, etc.) together with original melodies into a cohesive vision, as well as for the technical excellence of their production, which was based on home studio-scale tools like DAW software and specialized hardware from the start, rather than on a typical studio recording approach. Working both as musicians, as well as avid technophiles researching new gear and ways to evolve their sound and presentation, it took less than a decade for Daft Punk to release 3 influential, and pretty successful, albums ("Homework" in 1997, "Discovery" in 2001, "Human After All" in 2005) and establish themselves as pioneers in the electronic genre - although I'm partial to the more fitting "patron saints of electronic music" title myself

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While the two childhood friends did get lucky early on with Bangalter's father being himself a music industry veteran, which helped steer them away from typical pitfalls most other artists tend to land themselves into when signing their first record contract (they only agreed to an initial 5-year contract with Virgin and held on to all their other rights for worldwide distribution), the rest of their success has been entirely of their own making, including the careful crafting of their image: they refused to play the fame game by not living a luxurious life or showing their faces in public appearances and, instead, they took to wearing masks, which, after the Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger music video in 1999 settled into them assuming the guise of robots, thus conforming to the theme of Human After All. The persistence with which they tend to pursue their (passion) projects and see them through to completion is pretty notorious, too, including them putting together the anime-styled, feature-length animation Interstella 5555 accompaniment to their Discovery album even though no producer thought it worthwhile to finance, as well as putting on what's likely been the most impressive - and technically advanced - performance anyone's ever given at the Coachella festival of 2006 in California, with their famous light pyramid stage show. That success prompted Guy-Man and Thomas to perform the same show around the world in what became known as the Daft Punk Alive 2006/2007 Tour.
Finally, in the more recent past, and a turn towards a more orchestral and studio-produced direction to their music for the first time, the duo scored the Tron: Legacy soundtrack in 2010 and went on to release their anticipated fourth album, Random Access Memories, in 2013 as a love letter to the disco era's unique sound n' production sensibilities with a number of guest musicians. While I can't say this latest outing of theirs resonated as much as Daft Punk's previous albums did with their more purist, electronic-minded audience, in which I tend to include myself, I think it's undeniable at this point that, if the list of their past achievements is anything to go by - paving the way to current genres, like EDM, with more than a dozen of worldwide hits, 6 Grammy awards and multi-million album sales - there's still much unique electronic goodness to look forward to from the robots in the years to come.

With the background out of the way, all that remains is posting a few "characteristic" Daft Punk tracks to illustrate just what they sound like, right? Thing is though, while picking out a few among their numerous, pervasive hits to embed might give newcomers a sense of recognizing something vaguely familiar from the past here or there (pretty unlikely that you haven't heard something of theirs if you've been living in the developed world for more than, say, 15-20 years), narrowing that to down to 3-4 vids would still leave out so much, so I figured I might go with a different approach this time, and point you to their entire, ~70min Alive Tour performance from 2007 instead. Moreover, what's also unique about it is that it offers a glimpse into how the pair themselves saw the various tracks from their first three albums fit and flow together into a whole, cohesive vision (musically and thematically), which was a first when it was played live in 2006; doesn't hurt that the official recording of the Alive world tour was of masterful quality too (mixing between live feedback and the track was almost spotless, to my mind). Having gone through their entire discography several years ago myself, I made sure to hold on to the Alive tour tracks, and, as a playlist, it's made for a pretty inspiring background while working on all kinds of projects, so I'd certainly recommend it even in that capacity, whether you're reading or writing text, editing a map, simply playing (just not online, because streaming YT music will screw with your ping) or anything else.

- One-segment video of the entire performance, assembled from fan clips and paired with recorded, CD-quality audio (plus 13th track/encore) at Vimeo.

- First part of 12-track, audio-only playlist on YouTube (for letting play in its tab while working on other stuff).

Rest of it here.

Enjoy n' lemme know what you think

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]M[ · Post by **]M[** » Mon 21. Dec 2015, 10:44

nice one Pegasus - have been on a bit of a 90's (my 20's ;p) retro kick recently, and Daft Punk was added to my UT in-flight mix just last week

...ah yep, some incredibly catchy-yet-edgy tunes - I remember their video's (and the Interstellar 5555 film) being headliners at ResFest (an independent digital film fest that began in the US in the late 90's, spread around the globe, even reached here at the southern tip by the early 2000's...) ...and with video's by Gondry, Spike Jones, et al. - they were quite a phenomenon

so, nostalgia trip so far:
Musique, Vol. 1 (1993-2005)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_Vol._1_1993–2005

...and, very much proving they're still around in the 2000&teens^:
Random Access Memories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Access_Memories

a brief sampling of vids...

Cat1981England · Post by **Cat1981England** » Thu 31. Dec 2015, 16:03

Happy new year. Have fun!

Cat1981England · Post by **Cat1981England** » Fri 1. Jan 2016, 22:33