I presume you've all seen this already, but it still makes intersting listening. It's funny what a simple change in tempo will do. They're not ripping them off, they're doing what house DJs have always done, taking the best riff and breaks from disco/soul/funk and turning them into up-tempo dance tracks.
I'm sure Tom'll have a lot to say about this...
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SeasideMan
Pro - 2008-06-19 @ 09:54:40
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DominicGee
- 2008-06-19 @ 10:01:47
They are very talented. They are quite often topping polls as greatest dance act etc etc. I don't know about that, but they have a very distinctive sound that is often copied (Justice is an obvious modern example, see also Boys Noize). I I just wanna see them live - they're pyramid show looks amazing, I know it'll be excellent, but the times when they do live stuff, tickets are hard to come by.
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SeasideMan
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- 2008-06-19 @ 10:05:50
Unfortunately I haven't seen them live either, and probably never will. They effectively started, about 10 years ago, the trend for using 1970s sounds. That trend still continues. I actually preferred them before they did that, when they were much harder. Revolution 909 from their first album is, in my view, one of the best bits of dance music ever made.
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prydwen
- 2008-06-19 @ 19:15:31
Why re-invent the wheel. We are all told to recycle these days LOL
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Albert_Soviets
- http://www.freewebs.com/imjoedonbaker/index.html
- 2008-06-20 @ 07:46:16
I was looking at the Youtube comments (never a good idea) and it's interesting that even after all these years, there's still a debate about sampling. If I think about the earliest records that I got into, part from my mum's old soul collection, most of the stuff I liked as a kid sampled stuff with far less sophistication than daft punk does. "Planet Rock" is just a couple of Kraftwerk tunes pasted together with rapping over the top. Double Dee and Steinski's "lesson" series is just lots of records cut up and pasted together. So are all the early Cold Cut tunes. Without "Amen Brother" by the Winstons, there would be no such thing as jungle. Without James Brown, there probably wouldn't be any hip-hop recorded between 1987-1999. Without George Clinton, Dr. Dre's back catalogue would be half the size...etc. And the upshot of it is, not only do people use sounds in a creative way but people go back to the tunes that other people use and discover them for themselves. I discovered jazz because people sampled jazz artists.
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DominicGee
- 2008-06-20 @ 09:02:43
You're right, YouTube comments are sometimes the most ignorant, out-of-date, ill-informed and bigotted i've ever come across. Why on earth should there be a debate about sampling? If you don't like it, don't do it.
You're right too, I love listening to early sampling, cos sometimes, they were really bad, the transitions were really obvious etc etc, especially with certain acid house.
The thing is, 'sampling' has fone on one way or another for a long time in my view, such as early blues using the same riffs and chord progressions, nearly all of Elvis' tunes being covers, stories that we know and love actually being a pastiche of existing folklore, artists taking influence from previous movements and cultures. It's all 'sampling'. -
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Yup, I had heard that before. Daft Punk are very clever samplers, and luckily they have the talent as musicians and producers to make the samples into something different but good.
I'm quite a fan, actually.
Tom.