(“Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it’s not moving one inch,” Thomas says. – They’re pretty ambivalent about being idolised by the EDM sect. The only electronics come in the form of a massive, custom-built modular synthesizer that Daft Punk played live on the album … and an arsenal of vintage vocoders on which they manually manipulated factors like pitch, vibrato and legato.) (“We wanted to do what we used to do with machines and samplers,” Thomas explains, “but with people.” Except for a snippet of “an Australian rock record” that opens the final track, “Contact,” Daft Punk foreswore samples entirely, and they limited the role of drum machines to just two of the album’s thirteen tracks. – It’s also not that electronic – more human than Daft Punk’s last non-soundtrack album, Human After All, in fact. “And all these guys were tripping on meeting again and playing together again.” He adds: “It’s not that we can’t make crazy futuristic sounding stuff, but we wanted to play with the past.”) ![]() (“The Seventies and the Eighties are the tastiest era for us,” Guy-Manuel says. – Random Access Memories is inspired by the ’70s and ’80s. We don’t see a tour as an accessory to an album.” When they do finally hit the road, he added, it will be with a career-encompassing set list, not one overly focused on the new material.) ![]() “We want to focus everything on the act and excitement of listening to the album. (Thomas says “we have no current plans” to tour the new record. – Despite all the hoo-hah, don’t expect them to tour Random Access Memories any time soon. “He told me, Chris Cunningham’s already directing the video!”) “One of them, I told him it sounded solid and powerful – I envisioned a cube when I heard it,” Gondry says. “He’s a good friend.” Director (and longtime Daft Punk compatriot) Michel Gondry says that Kanye recently played him “two songs” that sprang from the session. “Kanye doesn’t give a fuck,” Guy-Manuel adds. “It was very raw: he was rapping – kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas says. (“At their Paris studio, they laid down a combination of live and programmed drums while Kanye worked out rough vocals on the fly. – The duo will probably appear on the new Kanye West album – and it may well be a single, with a Chris Cunningham-directed video. Following last night’s Coachella-aired commercial for their new album Random Access Memories, electronic idols Daft Punk have given their first interview of the year to Rolling Stone.
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