Flashback Friday.. Daft Punk - 'Digital Love'

When 'Get Lucky', the new Daft Punk song (even writing that feels surreal!) featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rogers dropped last week, I went on the biggest of Daft Punk binges! It's almost a shame that it takes something to revive a longstanding love of a band or artist, but I'm glad it did. It's not very often that I pinpoint Daft Punk as my soundtrack of choice for the day, but I did, and Discovery was my weapon of choice.

The 2001 album is easily Daft Punk's masterpiece, though whether that continues to be so with the release of Random Access Memories, we shall soon find out. If you were to hand Discovery to a Daft Punk novice, they would be more than a little surprised to find that they probably knew a good portion of the songs anyway, they have been absorbed by pop culture/ used in TV advertisements and soundtracks that much. 'One More Time', 'Aerodynamic', 'Digital Love', 'Harder Better Faster Stronger', 'Crescendolls' are all immediately identifiable songs. For much of the album, Daft Punk incorporated samples of songs that they recalled from their childhood, reworking them into an addictive blend of electronic disco pop! The videos for the singles were all comprised using extracts of the corresponding anime film, Interstella 5555: the 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, for which Discovery was the soundtrack. Watch the music videos in the order posted above to see a portion of the film.

In aiming to create an album in homage to the soundtrack of their own childhood, Daft Punk created the soundtrack to mine; the singles especially being instantly loveable. Above is the video for 'Digital Love', which persists in being one of my favourite songs ever! Enjoy ;)

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New Waves.. Daft Punk - 'Get Lucky'

It's here and it's BE-A-U-TI-FUL!

After a mere (!) 8 years between forthcoming album Random Access Memories and its predecessor, Human After All, Daft Punk have been churning up the hype machine in recent weeks, now culminating with the surprise drop of new single, 'Get Lucky'.

After various images and artwork have been floating around cyberspace since the beginning of the year, last week saw the first musical evidence of a Daft Punk comeback with the above song being teased via video trailer at Coachella Festival and during Saturday Night Live ad breaks, and what a great song to begin with!  N.E.R.D/Neptunes maestro Pharrell Williams and Chic guitarist Nile Rogers both feature and co-wrote the track with Daft Punk, and it carries a soulful, retro feel, and definitely would not be out of place in the classic disco heyday.

Whilst feeling familiar, it also manages to feel like somewhat of a departure for Daft Punk. It is much less electronic, and Thomas Bangalter stated via Rolling Stone that they 'wanted to do what we used to do with machines and samplers, but with people'[1], and this certainly is apparent. 'Get Lucky' has reminded us of what a well written and slickly composed Daft Punk song can sound like, which is somewhat of a relief, as I found songs from Human After All somewhat repetitive, however this feels like much closer to the realms of brilliance that the duo reached with their second album Discovery, featuring classic songs such as 'One More Time', 'Aerodynamic', 'Digital Love' and 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger'. I am getting beyond excited for the rest of the promo campaign in anticipation for when Random Access Memories drops (hopefully) in May!

Random Access Memories is due for release May 17th.
'Get Lucky' is out NOW!

Did you enjoy 'Get Lucky? Are you excited for Random Access Memories? What's your favourite Daft Punk song?

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