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DAFT PUNK – RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES TRACKLIST
Creating terrifically human-like voices from finely calibrated vocoders, calling upon contemporaries like Pharrell Williams, Panda Bear and Julian Casablancas to contribute, and enlisting some of the 70s and 80s finest session players was the winning formula, a 4 year journey.
Apparently Williams and Daft Punk shared a moment of synchronicity – both citing Nile Rodgers (of disco band Chic) as inspiration for their work on the album, which Rodgers collaborated on as well. From the tidbits heard, it blends classic Disco and funk grooves with the French duo’s signature electro.
Until the full album is released on May 21, enjoy the first official release, “Get Lucky”.
DAFT PUNK – RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES TRACKLIST
1. “Give Life Back to Music” (featuring Nile Rodgers)
2. “The Game of Love”
3. “Giorgio by Moroder” (featuring Giorgio Moroder)
4. “Within” (featuring Chilly Gonzales)
5. “Instant Crush” (featuring Julian Casablancas)
6. “Lose Yourself to Dance” (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
7. “Touch” (featuring Paul Williams)
8. “Get Lucky” (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
9. “Beyond”
10. “Motherboard”
11. “Fragments of Time” (featuring Todd Edwards)
12. “Doin’ It Right” (featuring Panda Bear)
13. “Contact” (featuring DJ Falcon)
Available now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/GetLucky
Pre-Order Random Access Memories, in-stores 5/21/13:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/RAMiTunes
Amazon (CD/LP): http://smarturl.it/ram-amazon
Direct (CD/LP): http://www.myplaydirect.com/daft-punk
“Overgrown” – James Blake
Review by: Ned Hepburn
“Overgrown” reminds me, on my fourth listen now in as many hours, of the inevitable passing of time.
Yeah, I know, usually I open up these kinds of reviews with a yuk-yuk joke or a ha-ha, but “Overgrown” is a mature-ass album. This album is so mature it is knowledgeable about wine. This album is so mature it moved in with it’s significant other and they are getting a dog. This album is so mature that it recently took a cooking class and knows how to make a good chicken stock (I swear, people always forget the backbone). This album is quietly, sexily confident, and totally (in)secure with itself.
There’s a difference between this album and, say, 99.9999999% of all the other albums released this year: this album will be remembered twenty years from now. Much like a good, classic suit or Ray Bans Wayfarers, this is just minimal enough, with enough clean lines, to last for a long, long time. Like all good albums, it somehow sounds futuristic without ever leaving it’s time period. Somehow James keeps his spaceship sound grounded and we’re left all the better for it – ”Retrograde” alone is one of the catchiest songs of the year – ”Voyeur” attempts (and succeeds!) at a wild new kind of dance music that is closer to an Issac Hayes ballad than it cares to admit – the whole album is dripping with originality.
It’s a work of art. This album is as good as Joni Mitchell’s “Blue”, to which it shares at least some musical lineage. Whereas one might not think to make the lyrics any good while making such forward thinking music, James turns in some of the best, most honest and simple poetry this side of… well, anything.
“Overgrown” is hands down a fantastic album and sets electronic music forward light years. I’m floored by this whole thing. It’s staggeringly, dogfuckingly good, and highly, highly recommended.
James Blake- Retrograde
“Hurricane”- MS MR
MS MR rules. I don’t know what they’re doing in their videos half the time, but I do know this: the shit is visually appealing. There’s so much going on with these guys all the time, lush sounds, beautiful people (mostly just Lizzie and Max), bright colors; what more could you ask for?
The featured song, “Hurricane”, is the sugar of the group’s EP “Candy Bar Creepshow”. The duo’s full length “Second Hand Rapture” is out May 14th.
That Spring Workout Playlist You Were Too Busy To Make
…Now you have no excuse.
This past winter your friends circled up and asked each other what your 2013 resolutions were.
Obviously your girlfriends applauded you for such ‘wildly’ optimistic goals (and contributed hopes of ‘cutting processed foods’ from their diets and ‘making more time to practice meditation’).
You pledged to “get back in shape”, and “feel the best you can” and “shoot for the moon” and other promises that look nice on motivational posters in the gym. I pledged the same thing, so I know all about this resolution-keeping struggle.
Now it’s finally Spring and with the summer months rapidly approaching, it’s time to stop stretching the boundaries of what “working out 3-5 days a week” really means (turns out, walking to and fro between your house and the mailbox isn’t cardio) and get down to it! I went ahead and compiled a list of songs that are great to workout to.
I know that early 2000′s P!nk jams and Nelly Furtado party anthems don’t SOUND like the best treadmill tunes but some mindless pop can do you wonders, kid.
No excuses now. Get your butt back in shape!
Die Young- Ke$ha
Beautiful Liar- Beyonce & Shakira
Truth- Chiddy Bang
What You Wanted- OneRepublic
Strip Me- Natasha Bedingfield
Hello- Martin Solveig & Dragonette
Fighter- Christina Aguilera
Anything Could Happen- Ellie Goulding
Teeth- Lady GaGa
Off to the Races- Lana Del Ray
Electric Feel (Justice Remix)- MGMT
Bullets- Tunng
Titanium (feat. Sia)- David Guetta
Shake That- Eminem
Top Of The Pops 2011- Mashup-Germany
Bad Girls- M.I.A.
Maneater- Nelly Furtado
‘Till I collapse- Eminem and Nate Dogg
God is a DJ- P!nk
Fight Music- D12
Promiscuous- Nelly Furtado
Domino- Jessie J
Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki Remix preferably)- Kid Cudi
Love and Memories- O.A.R
Chillin’- Wale & Lady GaGa
Sweet Religion- Imogen Heap
Thrift shop- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
North American Scum- LCD Soundsystem
Temperature- Sean Paul
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites- Skrillex
Neon Lights- Natasha Bedingfield
Waking up in Vegas- Katy Perry
The Golden Age- The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Paper Planes- M.I.A.
Move Along- The All-American Rejects
Beautiful, Dirty, Rich- Lady GaGa
Good luck friends! And remember, watching Jillian Michaels scold people on The Biggest Loser doesn’t qualify as “exercise”.
Can’t a Young Guy Get Money Anymore?
By now, I’m sure that most of you have heard the newest track by Kanye West, “Way Too Cold”. (Changed from the title “Theraflu” after the Theraflu brand didn’t take to kindly to wild child Mr. West using their likeness.) Well this video, directed by @Ash_Innovator, is all kinds of awesome! There is no word indicting that this is the official video, but nonetheless, it is quite enjoyable. Is it possible to see this video and not crack a smile at this adorable little child going hard “rapping” Kanye lyrics (I tried and failed )? It may be semi-inappropriate but it’s all in good fun.
Nice? Photo via The Fashion Bomb
KAZAKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
The European pop group Kazaky is not your average “boy band.” With their dance-ready beats and fashion feats in razor-sharp stilettos, the fearless foursome is carving out a niche all their own.
There was a time when Kazaky was just a ukrainian group that only the gays knew about. But my how things have changed. In just a few years, the boys have gone from being a group of unknown dudes in heels to being featured in this month’s upcoming V magazine. Along with being madonna’s eye candy in her ‘Girls Gone Wild’ video, they can now add Nicola Formichetti and famed photographers Inez & Vinoodh to their ever growing list of celebrity followers.
Bravo boys! can’t wait to see guys make middle america choke on your high heels & barely there ensembles 
Photography Inez & Vinoodh, fashion Nicola Formichetti
http://www.nicolaformichetti.com/2012/07/02/kazaky-v-magazine-inez-vinoodh/
4am: Kirko Bangz- Drank in my Cup
Yeah, so it’s Friday and pretty much all of us with be singing this song by Kirko Bangz at some point this weekend so why don’t’ we just learn the lyrics now so we can lip-sync it in the club and impress all of our equally drunk friends.
Drank in my Cup
4am: Kirko Bangz- Drank in my Cup
Yeah, so it’s Friday and pretty much all of us with be singing this song by Kirko Bangz at some point this weekend so why don’t’ we just learn the lyrics now so we can lip-sync it in the club and impress all of our equally drunk friends.
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