A Very Daft Love Letter to the Robots
A Very Daft Risk
Oh where to begin! Let us rewind to the late ninenties when I was nothing more than a life-loving grade schooler whom rode the bus home from school each and every day. To pass the time I would bring my Sony Walkman CD player on the bus with me, and listen to music while watching the world go by as I waited for my destination. My CD's were nothing more than a collection of songs my best friends crammed onto CD-R's that he made to test his CD-Burner out (something that was extremely cool in the 90's).
However, one bus ride featured a sound I was unfamiliar with, a sound that closely resembled the disco roots of old Village People songs, a tune called "Da Funk" by a group I hadn't heard of before called Daft Punk. Immediately I was hooked on the sound, and from that day, my love of electronic music and Daft Punk was born, and that's that.
Fast Forward to 2013. Daft Punk is still my favorite musical group, and has by far been cemented in that place. Having influenced my musical tastes, my life, my interest in DJing, Electronic Music, Funk, Disco, etc... the list goes on. To put it short, Daft Punk has played quite the part in molding who I am as far as music, and has also helped me in times of emotional stress.
A Very Daft Risk, is my first AND last set that is completely dedicated to an artist and their records. No other group features the variety or warrants the project. This is by all accounts a love-letter to Daft Punk that was 15 years in the making.
The set was made in the most spontaneous of ways, and was done right before the official release of Daft's newest album, "Random Access Memories". RAM's release was on May 21, however I was sent an early listen of the album by a close friend and decided after one play through I had to mash my favorite songs from the record with the rest of Daft's cataloge. This wouldn't have been possible had I not been big into the group, as knowing cue points, tempos, key changes, and transitional points come with "learning" the music.
The set features records from 4 Daft Punk records; Alive, Discovery, Human After All, and RAM, but also songs from their scoring of 2010's Disney film Tron Legacy. It is a discography in all the right ways, and I am very proud of it's construction. To add more spontaniety to the project, it was also the same day my new mixing deck arrived, my Hercules MX-4. Without any proper learning of the hardware, and with new material, I sat down (more like danced around), and strung together all my random access memories into one complete set. I hope you enjoy this discovery, as it made me feel alive, and what few mistakes there are, only proves that we are in fact, human after all.
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| The Pinnacle of Music Technology in 1998 |
However, one bus ride featured a sound I was unfamiliar with, a sound that closely resembled the disco roots of old Village People songs, a tune called "Da Funk" by a group I hadn't heard of before called Daft Punk. Immediately I was hooked on the sound, and from that day, my love of electronic music and Daft Punk was born, and that's that.
Fast Forward to 2013. Daft Punk is still my favorite musical group, and has by far been cemented in that place. Having influenced my musical tastes, my life, my interest in DJing, Electronic Music, Funk, Disco, etc... the list goes on. To put it short, Daft Punk has played quite the part in molding who I am as far as music, and has also helped me in times of emotional stress.
A Very Daft Risk, is my first AND last set that is completely dedicated to an artist and their records. No other group features the variety or warrants the project. This is by all accounts a love-letter to Daft Punk that was 15 years in the making.
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| Thomas Bangalter, left and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, right |
The set was made in the most spontaneous of ways, and was done right before the official release of Daft's newest album, "Random Access Memories". RAM's release was on May 21, however I was sent an early listen of the album by a close friend and decided after one play through I had to mash my favorite songs from the record with the rest of Daft's cataloge. This wouldn't have been possible had I not been big into the group, as knowing cue points, tempos, key changes, and transitional points come with "learning" the music.
The set features records from 4 Daft Punk records; Alive, Discovery, Human After All, and RAM, but also songs from their scoring of 2010's Disney film Tron Legacy. It is a discography in all the right ways, and I am very proud of it's construction. To add more spontaniety to the project, it was also the same day my new mixing deck arrived, my Hercules MX-4. Without any proper learning of the hardware, and with new material, I sat down (more like danced around), and strung together all my random access memories into one complete set. I hope you enjoy this discovery, as it made me feel alive, and what few mistakes there are, only proves that we are in fact, human after all.
Fun Fact:
The Very Daft Risk features two songs that aren't exactly Daft Punk records, but rather have been produced by Thomas Bangalter, one of the duo. Music Sounds Better With You, and Together were both spinoff projects of Bangalter and were made with Stardust and Dj Falcon respectively.
With 650 listens, and 188 downloads, it is by far my most popular set to date!
Pictures From:
-http://welcometobanterville.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/sony-dne511.jpg
-http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/as/daft-punk-2.jpg
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