SummersRadio™ New Music! Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams - 'Lose Yourself To Dance'/ Daft Punk Featuring Paul Williams - 'Touch'
The cat is out of the sac! Daft Punk's new disco album 'Random Access Memories' is available for streaming in full online - including on iTunes. Although it's proper retail release is still a week away (in North America - it's released Friday in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands and Monday in the U.K. and France) fans can hear the entire album now.
If you don't have 74 minutes to sit down and listen to it in it's entirety I've chosen a couple standout tracks to feature to give you a taste.
Let's begin with track six - like 'Get Lucky' it features vocals from Pharrell Williams - called 'Lose Yourself To Dance'. Although this is a dance album, of course not all tracks are dancey per se - this song seems like an obvious choice for a future single given the instant commercial success of 'Get Lucky'. I like the layered vocoder effects on this one... Enjoy!
'Touch' is the seventh track on the thirteen track album - and it grabbed my attention right away as it's perhaps the album's most epic, spaced out number.
While we're connected to each other in so very many ways even when we're alone, the modern technological world seems to forget the importance of actual human touch. The song encapsulates a bit of this sadness at first but then cheers up - featuring the (mostly) spoken word vocals of Paul Williams (who also wrote the lyrics)... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ New Music! Daft Punk!
SummersRadio™ New Music! Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - 'Get Lucky' (Official Radio Edit)
Daft Punk have just officially released their new single on iTunes today! Between the release of their first song teaser played on Saturday Night Live on March 2nd and today the internet has been flooded with loops and home made edits of what the full track might sound like. You can revisit the first clip and my story of meeting the band here:
http://summersradio.blogspot.ca/2013/03/summersradio-commercial-break-daft-punk.html
So if you're on the net a lot you'll know that it's been a brilliant marketing campaign but it was getting rather annoying - there's been so much hype and yet no one really had anything to say about the song itself . On the other hand why comment until you've heard the real thing? I love Daft Punk. However I'm not a fan of Pharrell's vocals - they turned me off the song to some degree from the start - although there's no denying the classic sound of Nile Rodgers' funky guitar work.
I'm clearly divided on the song's appeal - if they wanted to make a song that sounds as good as his recordings did with Chic and Sister Sledge, then they succeeded. The thing is that as perfect as that sound is, it just doesn't feel as fresh in 2013 as it did back in the day.
So while I anxiously await the release of some quality remixes (I reckon the internet will be flooded with a new wave of them tomorrow) sans Pharrell (the vocoder bits are cool though) we have here the official final proper radio edit as released on iTunes today... Enjoy!
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Daft Punk have just officially released their new single on iTunes today! Between the release of their first song teaser played on Saturday Night Live on March 2nd and today the internet has been flooded with loops and home made edits of what the full track might sound like. You can revisit the first clip and my story of meeting the band here:
http://summersradio.blogspot.ca/2013/03/summersradio-commercial-break-daft-punk.html
So if you're on the net a lot you'll know that it's been a brilliant marketing campaign but it was getting rather annoying - there's been so much hype and yet no one really had anything to say about the song itself . On the other hand why comment until you've heard the real thing? I love Daft Punk. However I'm not a fan of Pharrell's vocals - they turned me off the song to some degree from the start - although there's no denying the classic sound of Nile Rodgers' funky guitar work.
I'm clearly divided on the song's appeal - if they wanted to make a song that sounds as good as his recordings did with Chic and Sister Sledge, then they succeeded. The thing is that as perfect as that sound is, it just doesn't feel as fresh in 2013 as it did back in the day.
So while I anxiously await the release of some quality remixes (I reckon the internet will be flooded with a new wave of them tomorrow) sans Pharrell (the vocoder bits are cool though) we have here the official final proper radio edit as released on iTunes today... Enjoy!
You like? Become a fan of SummersRadio™'s Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/SummersRadio/199636386720349
and never miss a beat by joining our group here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/366897324071/ Cheers!
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