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daft punk random access memories album free download zip Daft Punk : Random Access Memories (RAM) The french duos new album RAM – Random Access Memories has finally leaked. It’s one of the biggest album download this year since Columbia and Sony has pushed a lot of effort into marketing this thing. It’s an impressive collobartion album as well – With big names such as Pharell Williams, Nile Rodgers and Gonzales play a big role. I’ve been listening to this album all day – And it’s a lot more like Discography than Human After All, which I’m very happy about since the last album was kind of shitty Random Access Memories. Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories finds them leaving behind the highly influential, riff-heavy EDM they originated to luxuriate in the sounds, styles, and production techniques of the 1970s and early 80s. In the electronica landscape of the 1990s, Daft Punk first came over as a novelty. Funny band name, funny sound, funny masks, and a funny (and incredibly fun) hit called “Da Funk”, found on their debut album, Homework . They’ve come a long way since, but the playfulness remains, and so does their ability to surprise. Every new step in their career, whether positive (the landmark Discovery , their life-altering pyramid live shows), negative (the inert Human After All , their forgettable score for Tron ), or somewhere in between (the film Electroma ) has been met initially with a collective sense of puzzlement: “Now what’s this all about?” Random Access Memories , the fourth proper studio album from Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, continues the trend. But the differences between their first three albums and this one are vast. RAM finds them leaving behind the highly influential, riff-heavy EDM they originated to luxuriate in the sounds, styles, and production techniques of the 1970s and early 80s. So we get a mix of disco, soft rock, and prog- pop, along with some Broadway-style pop bombast and even a few pinches of their squelching stadium-dance aesthetic. It’s all rendered with an amazing level of detail, with no expense spared. For RAM , Daft Punk recorded in the best studios, they used the best musicians, they added choirs and orchestras when they felt like it, and they almost completely avoided samples, which had been central to most of their biggest songs. Most of all, they wanted to create an album -album, a series of songs that could take the listener on a trip, the way LPs were supposedly experienced in another time. Daft Punk, in other words, have an argument to make: that something special in music has been lost. You can’t have an argument without a thesis, and they start the album with one called “Give Life Back to Music”. The song’s opening rush brings to mind “old” Daft Punk, but then come percussive guitar strums courtesy of Nile Rodgers followed by orchestral surges. From the jump, it’s clear that the particulars of the sound are important. In a strictly technical sense, as far as capturing instruments on tape and mixing them so they are individually identifiable but still serve the arrangements, RAM is one of the best engineered records in many years. If people still went into stereo shops and bought stereos regularly, like they did during the era Daft Punk draw from, this record, with its meticulously recorded analog sound, would be an album to test out a potential system, right up there with Steely Dan’s Aja and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Daft Punk make clear that one way to “give life back to music” is through the power of high fidelity. Another way is to work with artists young and old who have inspired them. Rodgers pops up again on “Lose Yourself to Dance” and “Get Lucky”, and on both songs he’s joined by Pharrell on lead vocals. These two songs basically find Daft Punk attempting to make their version of a Chic song, which, in itself, is not a particularly notable goal. But the French duo’s craftsmanship carries the day. Pharrell, despite being the biggest contemporary star on the album, sounds anonymous-- his vocals are pretty much just functional. But even that is arguably in line with Daft Punk’s reverence. Disco, after all, was often a producer’s medium, and lead singers weren’t necessarily meant to be the the focus of attention. So it comes back to songwriting and production: How strong is the groove, how memorable are the hooks? “Get Lucky”, a deserved hit, works on both counts. “Lose Yourself to Dance”, on the other hand, is OK, but plodding, perhaps the weakest song on the record and a good example of the potential pitfalls of Daft Punk’s backward-looking approach. Other songs in the record’s first half-- “The Game of Love”, “Within”, and “Instant Crush”-- don’t make a huge impression initially but are best understood as part of a broader whole. “Game” and “Within” are downtempo, slightly jazzy robotic soul, delivered in the kind of gorgeous vocoder that Daft Punk have perfected. Musically, “Instant Crush” sounds a lot like a great song by Daft Punk’s pals Phoenix, and the processed lead vocal from the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas holds a simple tune that’s catchier than anything he or his main band have managed in a while. All three tracks function well in the context of the record, throwing the tour-de-force “Giorgio by Moroder” into sharp relief. “Giorgio” is a stunning piece of pop-prog that seems partly drawn from the groundbreaking producer’s experiments in long-form, epic disco, like his side-long version of “Knights in White Satin”. Moroder’s only contribution to the song is an interview that offers a thumbnail history of his life as a musician, one that recounts how how he heard the sequenced Moog as the future of music (see “I Feel Love”). The construction of “Giorgio by Moroder” is masterful, moving from easygoing beats to a for-the-ages, chill-inducing synth line, to orchestral crashes, to a brilliantly goofy guitar solo. It’s a fitting tribute to Moroder’s spirit and legacy. RAM ’s best songs come in its second half, another clue that it’s meant to be heard in full. It builds as it goes. “Touch”, the record’s literal centerpiece, is where things start to get interesting. It’s telling that the songs featuring the two oldest and deepest influences on the record-- Moroder and Paul Williams-- are the most over-the-top. (Williams' role in the 1974 cult film Phantom of the Paradise became an early obsession for Daft Punk.) These pocket symphonies allows the duo to take their concerns to the furthest reaches of ambition-- and good taste. “Touch” packs in a Cluster-fied spacey intro, some showtune balladry, a 4/4 disco section complete with swing music trills, and a sky-scraping choir, all in service of a basic lyrical idea: love is the answer and you’ve got to hold on. It’s strange, disorienting, and emotionally powerful, with a silliness that doesn’t undercut the deep feelings in the least. It encapsulates what makes Daft Punk such an enduring proposition: their relationship to cool. Their vulnerability comes from embracing cheese while also understanding the humor and playfulness in it, holding all these ideas in mind at once. This quality is also heard in “Fragments of Time”, featuring lead vocals by legendary house DJ Todd Edwards. The laid-back melody embodies another often disparaged musical moment: 70s singer-songwriter excess that East Coast critics liked to write off as the sound of El Lay-- the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald. Conveying the openness and innocence that marked pop radio as the 70s ended, “Fragments of Time” sounds something like a sequel to Discovery 's “Digital Love”. Contrasting "Digital Love" and "Fragments of Time" also raises an interesting paradox: though everything about RAM , from the session musicians to the guests to the means of production, is meant to sound more “human,” the album at points sounds more sterile, almost too perfect. To my ears, this quality isn’t necessarily to its detriment, as much of its appeal ultimately comes from its surface beauty, the sheer gorgeousness of the overall sound. But I suspect this feeling is at the root of why, judging from early reviews, some listeners were underwhelmed. The continual churn of the internet, experience tells us, favors quick connections, conveniences, ephemeral pleasures. But there are areas of culture popping up that seek to slow down, focus on details, and wallow in the kinds of media that it still takes money to create. This is the space that Daft Punk seek to occupy, which in and of itself can be seen as problematic. For those who embrace the more egalitarian approach to music production created by access to cheap tools and cheap distribution, Daft Punk’s mind-bogglingly lush record scans as elitist, possibly even dismissive of the creativity that is happening on a smaller scale. To really understand where they’re coming from here, you have to go back to the height of the album era, which was really just a blip in pop music history. Three things made it different: 1) it was the time just before MTV; 2) it was the time just before the CD; 3) it was the time just before the Walkman. All three hit around the dawn of the 80s and had a profound influence on how recorded music was experienced. MTV, in addition to foregrounding the visual presentation of artists, returned music to a singles-focused realm. The CD did its part too, making skipping ahead so easy and allowing for the listener to jump around at will. (It also made artwork less important and introduced the idea of records as “data”.) And the Walkman's convenience opened up new spaces for listening while decreasing sound quality, a trade-off that has driven the technology behind popular music consumption ever since. So RAM is best appreciated as a counter to these trends. It’s not that “all music should be this” but that “some music could be this.” By the time you make it to the album’s astonishing final stretch, it’s hard not to think that Daft Punk have succeeded at what they set out to do. The arrangements on "Beyond" and “Motherboard” are breathtaking, and Panda Bear, after many so-so collaborations, aces his vocal turn on “Doin’ It Right”, a terrifically uplifting bit of electro-pop. And then it ends with “Contact”: It’s the most old-school Daft Punk song here, and it’s also the only one based on a sample, pulling its main riff from a 1981 song by the Australian band the Sherbs. Daft Punk and collaborator DJ Falcon first used “Contact” in a DJ mix in 2002, and now it finds its way on an album about time and memory in 2013. You get a feeling of time collapsing with it, seeing where Daft Punk have been and where they could go. “Contact” will likely close some future live multimedia extravaganza, and people will go insane, and they will return to this album with new ears. You never know, but my guess is that people will be listening to Random Access Memories a decade hence, just like we’re still listening to Discovery now. You’ll forget the YouTube interviews with the collaborators, you’ll forget the day they announced the suits, you’ll forget the day the “Get Lucky” snippet leaked, you’ll forget every rumor, you’ll forget the “SNL” commercials. But the record will remain, something that channels the past but sounds like little else right now, an album about rediscovery that's situated in the constantly-shifting present. Daft punk random access memories album free download zip. This is the 2017 reissue with identical packaging as the 2013 issue when sealed, but different lacquers have been used. Gatefold sleeve. Booklet includes complete lyrics. This release doesn't include a code for downloading the album in MP3, 320 kbps. Sealed copies have a sticker on the front: "Feat. Get Lucky & Lose Yourself To Dance Daft Punk 180 gram double vinyl. Songs published by: Track A1: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, XLC Music (BMI), Miss Mittie Music (BMI) Track A2: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France Track A3: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Giorgio Moroder Publishing (ASCAP) Track B1: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, EMI Music Publishing Track B2: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Julian Casablancas Publishing (ASCAP) for North America & Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited for rest of the world. Julian Casablancas appears courtesy of Rough Trade / RCA Records Track B3: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, XLC Music (BMI), EMI April Music, Inc. obo itself and More Water From Nazareth (ASCAP) Track C1: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Sunset Squid Music, Kazz Song, Inc Track C2: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, XLC Music (BMI), EMI April Music, Inc. obo itself and More Water From Nazareth (ASCAP) Track C3: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Sunset Squid Music, Kazz Song, Inc. Track D1: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France Track D2: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Todd Imperatrice (ASCAP) Track D3: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Panda Lennox (ASCAP) published by Chrysalis. Panda Bear appears courtesy of Domino Records Track D4: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Stephane Queme, Perfect Pitch Music Publishing (ASCAP). Contains a sample from The Sherbs recording "We Ride Tonight" produced under license from Liberation Music Pty Ltd and used by courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. under license from Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Contains audio from the Apollo 17 mission used by courtesy of NASA and Capt. Eugene Cernan. Recorded at Gang Recording Studio, Paris; Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood; Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood; Electric Lady Studios, New York & Capitol Studios, Hollywood. Mixed at Conway Studios, Hollywood. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME & Chab at Translab, Paris. ©2013 & ℗2013 Daft Life Limited under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment / Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment / Dystrybucja w Polsce: Sony Music Entertainment Poland Sp. z o.o., ul. Chóralna 14, 02-879 Warszawa / Made in the EU / Columbia is the exclusive trademark of Sony Music Entertainment. BPM is not provided on the record. BPM: A1: 118-120 | A2: 90 | A3: 112-114 B1: 109-112 | B2: 110 | B3: 100 C1: 116/91 | C2: 116 | C3: 104 D1: 103 | D2: 130 | D3: 89 | D4: 124. After Daft Punk breaks up, fans can only hope for one more time. They went “Around the World” and then some. But now Daft Punk is calling it a career. The helmet-wearing French electronic music duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo announced they have split up . for now. The group released an eight-minute clip from the end of its 2006 film “Electroma” to say goodbye. In the video, titled “Epilogue,” which has been viewed more than 1.6 million times since it was posted Monday, the “robots” wear their usual “space” helmets and jackets as they walk in a desert landscape. One of them sets a countdown clock on the other’s back, prompting the beeping robot to walk away and explode. A message flashes onscreen: “1993-2021,” as the duo’s 2013 song “Touch” plays and the other robot walks into the sunset. Bangalter and Homem-Christo, who appeared in public and performed with their faces concealed, won six Grammys, their first two in 2008 for “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (best dance recording) and “Alive 2007″ (best electronic/dance album). Their first No. 1 album arrived with their last release, “Random Access Memories,” in 2013. The album, which won the Grammys for record of the year, album of the year, best pop duo/group performance and best dance/electronic album, included the hit song “Get Lucky,” featuring Pharrell Williams, which made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Daft Punk holds the entire top 4 on the US iTunes dance albums chart following split. — chart data (@chartdata) February 22, 2021. Since “Random Access Memories,” Daft Punk had worked with The Weeknd on his 2016 album “Starboy” (on the songs ”Starboy” and “I Feel It Coming”). Fans and music makers mourned the exit of Daft Punk on social media Monday. The announcement sent the pair’s songs soaring up the Twitter trends and the iTunes chart. Many remembered the duo’s sensational “Alive 2007″ shows and 2006 Coachella set as being some of the best concerts of all time. Daft Punk you gave me the greatest musical experience in my life that still pumps in my veins reminding me why I love what I do and the community I’m part of. Thank you with all my soul for your existence alone. Now let’s play Daft Punk all day every day. pic.twitter.com/0t3rhv9WIO — Steve Aoki (@steveaoki) February 22, 2021. Daft Punk left the game with a flawless legacy. I would say enviable but impossibly unattainable is more appropriate — Mark Ronson (@MarkRonson) February 22, 2021. Daft punk random access memories album free download zip. ©2013 & ℗2013 Daft Life Limited under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment Dystrybucja w Polsce: Sony Music Entertainment Poland Sp. z o.o., ul. Chóralna 14, 02-879 Warszawa. Made in the EU. The booklet includes the lyrics to all songs. Released with a sticker on the front, in three different ways: Variation 1 (sticker on plastic wrap): Feat. Get Lucky & Lose Yourself To Dance Daft Punk 88883716862-1. Variation 2 (sticker on jewel case): Feat. Get Lucky & Lose Yourself To Dance Daft Punk 88883716862-2. Variation 3 (sticker on jewel case): Feat. Get Lucky & Lose Yourself To Dance Daft Punk 88883716862. Recorded at Gang Recording Studio, Paris; Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood; Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood; Electric Lady Studios, New York & Capitol Studios, Hollywood. Mixed at Conway Studios, Hollywood. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME & Chab at Translab, Paris. Track 1: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, XLC Music (BMI), Miss Mittie Music (BMI) Track 2: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France. Track 3: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Giorgio Moroder Publishing (ASCAP) Track 4: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, EMI Music Publishing. Track 5: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Julian Casablancas Publishing (ASCAP) for North America & Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited for rest of the world Julian Casablancas appears courtesy of Rough Trade / RCA Records. Track 6: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, XLC Music (BMI), EMI April Music, Inc. obo itself and More Water From Nazareth (ASCAP) Track 7: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Sunset Squid Music, Kazz Song, Inc. Track 8: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, XLC Music (BMI), EMI April Music, Inc. obo itself and More Water From Nazareth (ASCAP) Track 9: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Sunset Squid Music, Kazz Song, Inc. Track 10: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France. Track 11: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Todd Imperatrice (ASCAP) Track 12: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Panda Lennox (ASCAP) published by Chrysalis Panda Bear appears courtesy of Domino Records. Track 13: Imagem Music for the world excluding France, Daft Music / Because Music for France, Stephane Queme, Perfect Pitch Music Publishing (ASCAP) Contains a sample from The Sherbs recording "We Ride Tonight" produced under license from Liberation Music Pty Ltd and used by courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. under license from Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Contains audio from the Apollo 17 mission used by courtesy of NASA and Capt. Eugene Cernan.