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a pack of wolves:
Unless you were to investigate house music a fair bit I don't think you'd come across anyone as good at it as Daft Punk and Justice though. They might not be the greatest but if you put them up against the other house music you find in the charts, the stuff that people will generally come across in other words, they're a lot better. FSOL as an alternative doesn't make a lot of sense to me because although they're both making electronic music what they produce seems pretty different in intent. FSOL have done a lot of ambient work and aren't pumping out dancefloor fillers like Daft Punk and Justice are. As for the Chemical Brothers back when they were dropping tracks like Block Rocking Beats they got just as much attention as Daft Punk, but when was the last time they released something that people dancing like loons the same way Hey Boy Hey Girl did? And I have to say, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger was dropped in an electro set at the club I was at tonight and it sounded sweet in the mix.
C Patrick Carolan:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 17 Dec 2007, 12:52 ---Also, I am not exagerrating when I say that I literally don't understand why people who otherwise have good taste in music like Daft Punk, especially why they like them so much. If anyone could explain the appeal other than "They make good house music" I'd listen to them.
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How about because Daft Punk wear fucking robot helmets?
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 17 Dec 2007, 17:05 ---FSOL have done a lot of ambient work and aren't pumping out dancefloor fillers
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This is just not true. Only one of FSOL's albums was purely ambient. Their earliest work was designed for play in the same clubs that Daft Punk was. Try listening to the disc which is nothing but remixes of "Papua New Guinea". If you are unfamiliar with the concept that clubs don't only play fast-paced mindless happy-electro then I think you might not know much about the history of techno/electro clubs.
Also, FSOL's "We Have Explosive" was a major mainstay of big-beat sets and was one of the most popular songs of the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3zDV5V3SPg
a pack of wolves:
I always presumed they had a lot of ambient work, every time somebody's told me I was listening to FSOL it was ambient music. I don't really have any interest in ambient though, so it would be easy for me not to have noticed that it was the same record every time and thinking about the kind of people who've played them to me it would make sense that it was the ambient one they owned. I hadn't ever heard that track you link and it's definitely the kind of thing I meant by a dancefloor filler, it would get people moving in a club. And although I never said or implied that 'fast-paced mindless happy electro' was all that got played in clubs you are right that the history of techno is not my forte.
However, my point about Daft Punk and Justice releasing good tracks for dancing recently whereas the artists you've mentioned haven't still stands. That FSOL song is great but it's hardly recent, it's Daft Punk people will hear out so it's Daft Punk people will buy. If I'm wrong then it would be great to hear some contemporary stuff that's better though, I like Daft Punk but only as part of a set. I find a whole album by them a bit dull and repetitive.
UberDrivel:
I will agree that Daft Punk and Justice have been hyped to death. I mean, it's gotten to the point where they're pretty much permanently at the top of the Machine, which is supposedly all about finding new artists, instead rehashing the same band(s) for months. Reminds me a bit too much of how it is on mainstream radio. The snarky-but-all-right Idolator highlighted some of these problems in their first post (incidentally, Beirut seems to have made a comeback, good for him), and it does bother me how arbitrary the status of "latest, hottest, most-blogged band" seems sometimes. But in the end, as long as you listen to what you like, I don't think anyone should judge you.
So, anyone heard of Vampire Weekend? :)
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