Random Access Memories

Random Access Memories is the fourth studio album by the French electronic duo Daft Punk. It was released on May 17, 2013, and peaked in the U.S. and most European countries topping the charts. At the production many international star musicians were involved, including Panda Bear, Julian Casablancas, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams and Pharrell Williams.

The album contains numerous references to the sounds of the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, with the track Giorgio Moroder by an interview - assembly, in which the founder of the synthesizer disco music Moroder is expressed about his musical origins, included on the album.

Production

The duo began while the production of the film score to Tron: Legacy in 2008 to work on new material, but without having a concept or album in mind. The recordings took place in five different studios, the. Henson Recording Studios, Conway Recording Studios and Capitol Studios in California, Electric Lady Studios in New York City and Gear Recording Studio in Paris Vocal recordings took place mainly in Paris, while the instrumental or percussion sessions were made in the USA. In the production Daft Punk refrained almost entirely on samples and were in accordance with the majority of the instruments playing the instruments, one exception is the final track contact. There many accompanying instruments such as woodwind or string orchestra, or choral passages were taken, some of which later ended up not on the final album. They also used music for unusual sound effects, such as water droplets or clinking cutlery, in their implementation and recording they received support from expert film from Warner Bros. Electronic items have been reduced to a minimum, only a modular synthesizer and a vocoder were still used.

The song Giorgio Moroder by Giorgio Moroder together with a spoken monologue by him about his life as well as a "vocal booth", which includes three microphones from the 60s to today. The engineer said that the individual mics should be the respective stages of life Moroder. The demand, if one could hear the difference, then, denied the engineer why Moroder nachhakte why then do so, whereupon he replied that Thomas [ Bangalter ] hear the difference.

Explains the background to why so many guest musicians involved in the album creation, Bangalter said that it was also important to make music with the people who admired himself.

" The idea of ​​working with musicians was way beyond making it sound better. It was an opportunity to create something on a very personal level with people we did admire the most. "

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Critical reception

The album received almost exclusively positive reviews. With a calculated from 47 English reviews Metascore of 87 points, it is one of the highest -rated albums ever, and probably the bestaufgenommene commercially successful album of the year 2013.

" Pretty yesterday's - and still pretty awesome: On their new album, the disco robot from Daft Punk plunder crisscrossing the pop history, every sound seems familiar. It is this artful nod to the past makes "Random Access Memories" to the masterpiece. [ ... ] "Random Access Memories" is over 70 minutes long, but consistently entertaining. About Full of allusions, enriched by guests, it still always sounds Daft Punk. A staged as a masterpiece album keeps his production was. "

Sassan Niasseri of the German edition of the music magazine Rolling Stone praised the overall sound, the features of Giorgio Moroder and Pharrell Williams, and especially the song Touch. Be criticized only the Kollo borate ions with Julian Casablancas, Panda Bear and Chilly Gonzales.

" Yields are surprisingly at each of the 13 new pieces; often very good, in some cases amazingly unspectacular. [ ... ] Thus, variable and narrative, Guy -Manuel de Homem - Christo and Thomas Bangalter were last on her second album " Discovery " of 2001 [ ... ] Much more beautiful that the two Frenchmen -. , And walking towards her best plate, " Discovery " - are on an expedition course again. Although towards the past. Although they do not always act as if they consisted only of circuits as if they came from space and would bring us strange sounds with. But the best of these sounds, and give Daft Punk with this record to come from: the elderly living specimens of the species Homo sapiens. "

For the weekly magazine Stern in person by Verena Schurr the plate Daft Punks established position as a "heavyweight of the music scene ."

" The result is 13 tracks of groovy, catchy but sometimes maybe a bit long moments. Whether Daft Punk with "Random Access Memories", a similarly large throw succeeds, as in 2001, with its million-selling album " Discovery " will be seen. "

The editors of the German website Plattentests.de recognizes the union of Prog, Disco, Funk, Soul and House, and the homage of the old masters. Positive out she also highlights much of the guest musicians, in particular the participation of guitarist Nile Rodgers.

" " Will the new Daft Punk style icon again? "Asked to face up often in the face of unprecedented pre- album promotional campaign that launched the French. The answer is yes and no at the same time kackegal. "Random access memories " alive from the analog sound of the drums that are played and not programmed by the Soul in discoiden radio, from the soulful breath of the 70s. [ ... ] Eight years have Daft Punk worked to lay venous drainage as to the organs of the robot. Now the heart is pumping in French. The pacer says merci. "

Even a majority of other German Internet platforms rated Random Access Memories as successful, so cd- Bewertungen.de the album as " adventurous journey through the history of music " and says Mauricio Quinones of CDstarts.de that the work will do justice to its hype. The e-zine Laut.de dropped two of their editors argue against each other and rated it accordingly with three out of five stars comparatively moderate, but listed it in their Best of 2013 ranking as the eight best album of the year.

The album was, therefore, to find the " best albums of the year " in many of the lists. So the music magazine Rolling Stone listed the record as the third best album of the year, spinning on place 19 of its list of the 50 best albums of the New Musical Express at position 6, Pitchfork in 7th place and the music department of Complex magazine as the ninth best album.

Commercial success

The album debuted in the majority of European countries to No. 1 on the charts, including the UK, the German-speaking countries, as well as her native France, where it has already been awarded within a week with platinum. In addition, Random Access Memories also won the top position in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. In Germany, the album received in July, the gold record in the United States it was discontinued about 600,000 times (as of July 3, 2013 ).

It alone were sold in the first week worldwide over a million copies of the album, making it one of the most commercially successful albums of the year.

In the German iTunes Store in 2013 it was the best-selling album of the year.

Awards

  • 3x Gold
  • 12x platinum
  • 1x Diamond

In addition, the album at the Grammy Awards 2014 was awarded several Grammys. It won in the categories Best Dance / Electronica Album, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and also in the category Album of the Year. The single Get Lucky, which was recorded with Pharrell Williams, was also awarded the Best Pop Duo / Group Performance and Record of the Year.

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