Daft Punk and the Legacy Album

Daft Punk and the Legacy Album
Author: Sébastien Lebray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-05
Genre: Music
ISBN:
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While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict. Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia, 2013) will remain the very last Daft Punk album. Often understood as an expression of nostalgia towards the music of the 1970s-1980s, this work should not be reduced to a simple tribute to the masters of disco. Beyond their "retro" airs, their interest in old studios and their preference for analog equipment, Daft Punk invent new creative approaches in the continuity of the history of electronic music, leaving more room for humanity and collective performance. The band claims audacity and ambition in a way that is reminiscent of the spirit (more than in the style) of the 1970s progressive rock, with characteristics such as the expansion of the instrumentarium, experimentation in the recording studio, and the development of structures. Concerned with opening up new ways without giving in to a technicist headlong rush, Random Access Memories appears to be a work of its era, much more than a pastiche of the past.

After Daft

After Daft
Author: Gabriel Szatan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781399801119
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Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Songbook

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Songbook
Author: Daft Punk
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480365297
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). A baker's dozen songs from the 2013 chart-topping album by the French electronic music duo who composed the film score for Tron Legacy are presented in this matching folio arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Beyond * Contact * Doin' It Right * Fragments of Time * The Game of Love * Get Lucky * Giorgio by Moroder * Give Life Back to Music * Instant Crush * Lose Yourself to Dance * Motherboard * Touch * Within.

The Real Daft Punk

The Real Daft Punk
Author: Harris Rosen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781988956138
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Daft Punk in the age of Homework and Discovery & the rise of Dance Music. Over 80 original behind the scenes photos! Discover how Daft Punk became the dominant influence of today's Pop Music in exclusive 1997 and 2001 interviews. The history of legendary elite Dance Music producers Da Mongoloids. Complete with Daft Punk discography.

Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson

Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson
Author: Darran Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1623565979
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Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and proto-hip hop beats, combined with Serge's spoken-word poetry, has become remarkably influential across a vast musical spectrum; inspiring soundtracks, indie groups and electronic artists. In recent years, the album's reputation has grown from cult status to that of a modern classic with the likes of Beck, Portishead, Mike Patton, Air and Pulp paying tribute. How did the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, hounded during the Nazi Occupation, rise to such notoriety and acclaim, being celebrated by President François Mitterand as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire"? How did the early chanson singer evolve into a musical visionary incorporating samples, breakbeats and dub into his music, decades ahead of the curve? And what are the roots and legacy of a concept album about a Rolls Royce, a red-haired Lolita muse, otherworldly mansions, plane crashes and Cargo Cults?

The Daft Punk Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Daft Punk

The Daft Punk Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Daft Punk
Author: Emily Smith
Publisher: Tebbo
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781488502330
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Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born 8 February 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975). Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop. The duo is credited with producing songs that are considered essential in the French house scene. The group was managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (Busy P), the head of Ed Banger Records. Early in the group's career, the band members were strongly influenced by groups such as The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo were originally in a band called Darlin', which disbanded after a short period of time, leaving the two to experiment musically on their own. The duo became Daft Punk, releasing its critically acclaimed debut album Homework in 1997. The 2001 release of Discovery was even more successful, driven by the club singles "One More Time," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." In March 2005, the duo released the album Human After All to mixed reviews. However, the singles "Robot Rock" and "Technologic" achieved success in the United Kingdom. Daft Punk toured throughout 2006 and 2007 and released the live album Alive 2007, which won a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album. The duo composed the score of the film Tron: Legacy and in 2010 released the soundtrack album of the film. In January 2013, Daft Punk left EMI Records for Sony Music Entertainment's subsidiary label Columbia to release its next album, Random Access Memories, on 21 May 2013. Daft Punk is noted for its elaborate live shows, in which visual elements and effects are incorporated with the music. The group is known for its emphasis on visual and story components associated with their musical productions. Daft Punk is also known for its use of disguises, particularly the ornate robot costumes, while in public and/or performing. This book is your ultimate resource for Daft Punk. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Daft Punk's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, Daft Punk, 1997 in music, 1998 BRIT Awards, 2002 BRIT Awards, Aerodynamic (song), Alive 1997, Alive 2006/2007, Alive 2007, Aphex Twin, Around the World (Daft Punk song), Beef or Chicken?, Burnin' (Daft Punk song), Chic (band), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Crydamoure, D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes, DJ Hero, Da Funk, Daft Club, Daft Punk's Electroma, Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, Daft Punk discography, Darlin' (band), Derezzed, Digital Love, Discipline (Janet Jackson album), Discovery (Daft Punk album), Duophonic Records, Face to Face (Daft Punk song), Fearless (Jazmine Sullivan album), France, French house, Giorgio Moroder, Graduation (album), Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance...and more pages Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me

Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me
Author: Steven Hyden
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0316259144
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Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalries and what they say about life in this "highly entertaining" book (Rolling Stone) perfect for every passionate music fan. Beatles vs. Stones. Biggie vs. Tupac. Kanye vs. Taylor. Who do you choose? And what does that say about you? Actually -- what do these endlessly argued-about pop music rivalries say about us? Music opinions bring out passionate debate in people, and Steven Hyden knows that firsthand. Each chapter in Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me focuses on a pop music rivalry, from the classic to the very recent, and draws connections to the larger forces surrounding the pairing. Through Hendrix vs. Clapton, Hyden explores burning out and fading away, while his take on Miley vs. Sinead gives readers a glimpse into the perennial battle between old and young. Funny and accessible, Hyden's writing combines cultural criticism, personal anecdotes, and music history -- and just may prompt you to give your least favorite band another chance.

Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos
Author: Amanda Sewell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 0190053461
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With her debut album Switched-On Bach, composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (b. 1939) brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer to a generation of listeners, helping to effect arguably one of the most substantial changes in popular music's sound since musicians began using amplifiers. Her story is not only one of a person who blazed new trails in electronic music for decades but is also the story of a person who intersected in many ways with American popular culture, medicine, and social trends during the second half of the 20th century and well into the 21st. There is much to tell about her life and about the ways in which her life reflects many dimensions of American culture. Carlos's identity as a transgender woman has shaped many aspects of her life, her career, how she relates to the public, and how the public has received her and her music. Cultural factors surrounding the treatment of transgender people affected many of the decisions that Carlos has made over the decades. Additionally, cultural reception and perception of transgender people has colored how journalists, scholars, and fans have written about Carlos and her music for decades.

Energy Flash

Energy Flash
Author: Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1593764774
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Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (“ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s. England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and when ecstasy was added to the mix in British clubs, a new music subculture was born. A longtime writer on the music beat, Reynolds started watching—and partaking in—the rave scene early on, observing firsthand ecstasy’s sense-heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his own analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. He delves deep into the panoply of rave-worthy drugs and proper rave attitude and etiquette, exposing a nuanced musical phenomenon. Read on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called “hippy crack.”