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Does it exist? help!
Jackie Blue:
Wait wait what? Daft Punk are "relatively unknown"?!
Are you aware they were all the fuck over MTV in the mid to late 90s? "Around the World" has been used in a ton of commercials.
That's about as unknown as the Chemical Brothers. Just because nobody gave a crap about electronica between 1998 and 2006 doesn't erase the past.
At least back then people had the good sense to dismiss them as incredibly boring, simplified disco music. Hence my confusion about the sudden re-emergence of such music and its sudden popularity.
Honestly, I don't understand why anyone listens to music like Daft Punk when one could be listening to Death In Vegas, Underworld, Future Sound of London, Third Eye Foundation, or even the aforementioned Chemical Brothers.
Hell, I'd even rather listen to semi-crap like Fatboy Slim or Lo-Fidelity All-Stars than any Daft Punk.
onewheelwizzard:
The reason why people like Daft Punk is that they are really, really, really good at making music that people like dancing to. They are particularly good at making dancing enjoyable for people who are under the influence of Ecstasy.
Jackie Blue:
Nope, sorry, not buying that. I can't stand Daft Punk while on Ecstasy either. FSOL's Accellerator, on the other hand...
I don't understand how anyone could prefer Daft Punk to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0
Kai:
I haven't ever listened to the Future Sounds of London.
I'm really enjoying that video though.
It's all "WUAAAAAASHRUUUUUWUWUWUWUWUAAAAAA WAAAAVEES"
Jackie Blue:
That's one of their earliest songs. After that, they got more ambient (the 2-disc Lifeforms which is like Aphex Twin's ambient stuff but much groovier) and then got all cyberpunk (the absolutely amazing Dead Cities, which is exactly the aural equivalent of a William Gibson novel, yes including the weird parts about voodoo gods in cyberspace) and then after a long hiatus and ingesting a lot of South American psychedelics became a kind of weird psyche-rock-hippie-thing on The Isness which is basically their best album. They've done stuff since then but I've been slow to track it down, much of it under the name Amorphous Androgynous instead of FSOL.
Oh yeah, and they have a "live" album called ISDN which is also amazing.
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