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Some things I learned about Daft Punk and Random Access Memories (which I really like) this week:

Music is linear, people travel either forward or backward. Daft Punk traveled so far and so quickly ahead that they passed everyone and had to idle by the side of the road for 20 years, waiting for people to catch up. (Or did they travel so far backward they appeared to be traveling forward? Metaphor needs work.)

“It’s like we’re running on a highway going the opposite direction to everybody else.”

“I think we have a little bit of that edge, me and Thomas, these past 20 years. “

“Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it’s not moving one inch.”

“We like the idea of trying to be pioneers, but the problem with that is when you’re too much ahead, the connection doesn’t really happen at the time.”

Then Daft Punk decided music was not a linear thing.

“We hadn’t really found anything that touched us on the radio, except for some classic recordings. We went back into the studio and said, ‘OK, let’s make this music that we want to listen to now, in the present.’”

“The Seventies and the Eighties are the tastiest era for us.”

Access to technology is a good thing, but it’s made it too easy for everyone to make music.

“Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile — there’s no sound, there’s no air. It’s totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it’s really hard to create emotion.”

“Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it’s like there’s no more magic— if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?”

So thank god that there’s still the luxuries of money and time.

“There are songs on the album that traveled into five studios over two and a half years.”

“In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know? That’s what this record is about.”

“With this record, we had the luxury to do things that so many people cannot do, but it doesn’t mean that with luxury comes comfort.”

Daft Punk have been hot-boxing their own shit for the last 20 years, and today they’re here to exclusively tell everyone that they love the smell of it.

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thefader:

DAFT PUNK GAP AD (2001)

From Gap to Saint Laurent. The latter helps your we are le superhomme! mystique a lot more than denim tuxedos though.

One more: I wrote on the Vampire Weekend album, which I liked a LOT more than I expected to.

The New York band’s third album isn’t exactly lively, but it’s definitely undead.

I am rethinking my hed and subtitle. But it’s a really good piece!

BET Awards Nominees 2013 — Full List Of Hip-Hop Nominations - Hollywood Life

Best Collaboration
2 Chainz f/ Drake – No Lie
A$AP Rocky f/ Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – Problems
French Montana f/ Rick Ross, Drake and Lil Wayne – Pop That
Kendrick Lamar f/ Drake – Poetic Justice
Justin Timberlake f/ Jay-Z – Suit & Tie
Kanye West f/ Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz – Mercy

All these features for Drake, and he’s still going to lose to Jay-Z.

dynamofire:

weird shit musicians discuss on twitter, pt. 3,256,363

MTV Hive: Weird Vibes Ep. #16: I Am Marnie Stern

mtvhive:

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You’re about to get intimate with one of rock’n’roll’s greatest musicians, Marnie Stern, and her little dog Fig too, in the Weird Vibes ep. #16 feature, “I Am Marnie Stern.” This future award-winning rockumentary was shot…

Chris Mohney: I Am About to Delete a Bunch of Blogs

chrismohney:

Wouldn’t you like to have these powerful Tumblr blog URLs at your personal disposal or that of your Brand? Well good luck. I will entertain no transfer requests or other arrangements; I will simply start deleting all these blogs somewhere around 6pm NYC time this evening. Then they’ll be up for…

You could probably do some damage with associatedpress.tumblr.com.

(via PAPERMAG: Ten Magazines Whose Creative Takes On Food Have Us Salivating)

Nearly all the cool food journals are made in Brooklyn. Do people even eat in other parts of the country?

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based poetry

mehan:

I built a randomly-generated Lil B poetry Tumblr bot. Here’s how it works: once a day, a Python script scrapes Lil B lyrics from just under 300 pages on a certain rap lyrics website, selects five lines from those lyrics at random which contain the word “based” and uses them to craft a poem, which is then posted to this account via the Tumblr API. So, basically, follow this account if you want to see a machine-generated #based poem on your Dashboard once a day. If you want to know more, peep the code over on on GitHub. Just in time to miss national poetry month by two days!