The album doesn't just 'almost' have a hero's journey. It HAS one. Looking into how the music videos were made, it was literally designed to be the soundtrack to the movie they had made. They went to a very famous Japanese animé director, handed him the album and went 'here you go, wanna make an animé movie for us, with this as the only audio?' He said yes, though it does have some sound effects on it from the film studio as well. But there are no spoken words in the movie, it's ALL told straight through this album, in sequence as it is on the record. This album was literally written as the hero's journey for a film they hadn't had made yet! The GENIUS to pull that off!♥️👍
Why Random Access Memories is such a cool finale album from Daft Punk is because instead of using samples from released songs like they previously did, they got artists who they previously sampled to play hours of music for them, and sampled through their own recordings
i think thats why i dont enjoy it as much. it feels inauthentic and bland. same issue with Justice - they got enough money and studio access to actually make the stuff they used to sample and it loses the attitude and transgressive vibe that sampling brings. i understand people liking RAM, and what they like about it, but the whole album is pretty much a skip for me.
face to face is an absolute masterclass in microchopping. there's been like, 19 tiny bits from different individual records found throughout the various parts of the song. the winnie the pooh one blew me away. amazing video as always my g!
Right?? I never realized he was actually saying “Christopher” in the original song. And that “you are - face to face - with me” bit, just a cool touch.
I love mondegreens (misheard lyrics) and for years I thought the "Christopher Rob..." bit was "Mr. Furlong". It never made any sense to me, but that's what I sang anyway.
@@AutPen38 I totally misheard it as well, but in completely different ways. When I first heard it I would always hear it as "face to face now" and "face to face", since that's the song title. But I later read somewhere (wrongly) that it was a French sample, and then I couldn't stop hearing it in as "qu'est-ce tu fais là" and "qu'est-ce tu fais", which means "what are you doing there" and "what are you doing". Pretty wild the way our brains fill in the gaps when we aren't certain what something is.
Daft Punk's ear for sampling is unreal. What they can do making collage of song snippets is what makes them so special to me. Loved the part where you played Fave to Face live!
I’d say it’s even one of the greatest albums in the history of electronic music (if not THE greatest, or at least, the most impactful) and one of the best albums of the 21st century, all genres included.
@@erruz7606 System Of a Down - Toxicity, Jay-Z - Blueprint, The White Stripes - White Blood Cells, Gorillaz, Basement Jaxx- Rooty, and Aaliyah. 2001 was loaded
The Face to Face samples were played live on a keyboard, Todd Edwards has explained how they made it in an interview. And the sample wasn’t chosen because it sounds like it says face to face, the sample inspired the song title.
I thought you bringing everything together for One More Time was good, then Face to Face gave me chills. This is amazing work. It's almost unfair how well you put these together. Keep it up.
Honestly, if you are interested in branching out in more stories about samples used in music, the controversy behind Dangermouse "The Gray Album", Jay-Z, The Beatles, and EMI snatching that concept with the cease and desist order to flip The Gray Album into a Linkin Park release... That can't be ignored. PLEASE! This story is often forgotten and needs to be told.
@@MutleeIsTheAntiGod Short version of the story : - Dangermouse took an EMI released a capella of Jay-Z's Black Album and remixed it from start to finish with The Beatles White Album. He named the result "The Gray Album". - EMI (Jay-Z's label) pulled the a capella from circulation and issues a cease and desist order to Dangermouse adding the threat of a copyright infringement lawsuit despite the fact that Dangermouse distributed The Gray Album for free online profiting on none of it. It was Dangermouse demonstrating what quality sampling is capable of. - The internet caught wind of a big label trying to squeeze money from an independent artist and held a mass protests, having major websites display their sites in grayscale, showing solidarity for Dangermouse. - Months after the protests and lawsuit threats, EMI released a "collaboration" with Linkin Park + Jay-Z, stealing Dangermouse's initial idea for commercial use.
This is one of those “why it sucks we are somewhat in a post album era”. Any singular song won’t blow you away with production techniques (not saying they’re bad) but when you see how they pull together such varying processes to create the album, you appreciate it that much more.
idk man, I think a lot of electronic producers push those boundaries but since electronic music isn't big on the radio, you dont hear that side of the production much. Porter Robinson and Flume are great examples as well as Skrillex
I completely agree with this take but not just from a electronic music perspective…. It is SO FUCKING HARD to make a full album great start to finish, it’s what sets apart the great ones from the ok/good ones. With that said there’s still bands/artists making great albums the great ones always will. The problem I think is us the listeners, I think people just don’t listen to full albums anymore, they listen to songs/playlists it’s not right or wrong but because of this artists focus is making 1 hit song instead of cohesive albums….
"Face to Face" is one of my all time favorite songs. I have huge respect to Todd Edwards and his sampling style since his catalog in the UK Garage genre is also pretty massive. I can just imagine Thomas and Todd splicing up countless samples and tossing ideas for that track. We're still finding samples from this song and the song is over 22 years old!
The sampling in Face To Face is so good that there’s a chance that I’ll die before they find every single sample. Edit: NEVERMIND You guys are amazing!
There are only two samples left in Face to Face that we haven't discovered yet. Considering they figured out what samples made up the second half of Too Long, my bet is we'll find the last two samples of Face to Face in another year or two
@@mattsephton I don't think there's any written material covering any of this, but TH-cam videos have been uploaded showcasing the samples, including the mystery sample. Todd Edwards did a livestream where he revealed some of the actual clips sampled in F2F, which is how 3 of 4 mystery samples were discovered. Now there's just one left
OMFG you reproducing the face to face sampling gave me GOOSEBUMPS!! WOW Daft Punk were geniuses with this album. I did NOT appreciate it at first and always chose human after all as my fave album by them but the craft behind this one is stellar!! GENIUS!
I can’t believe that sample for the Face to Face hook, hearing Christopher robin for the first time after listening to that hundreds of times has blown my mind!
I saw on TH-cam comments years ago somebody said that the album is called Discovery because of after enjoying the music on there, you get to discover a whole different genre of music after looking into the sampling
I've been following your channel for a while now. Just wanted to comment to let you know that I and probably many others admire the effort you put into these videos, both research-wise and in the recreation of the samples. Keep on doing what you're doing, it's amazing!!
You’re my fav channel beside Polyphonic when it comes to history of music and understanding all the ingredients what makes these tunes great! Keep it up 🙏🏼
On the track ‘Teachers’ from the Homework album, they cite a lot of their musical influences/heroes. Clearly very much by House, Techno and Funk artists from Chicago and Detroit scenes 💚
MY GOSH!! I was not expecting this from you!!! Thank you so much! Daft Punk is my all-time favorite artist, and you did an amazing job of showing their work here. I’ve watched pretty much every video on their techniques and stuff, but you still managed to teach me some new things!! Awesome, just thank you so much, keep doin your thang! 🤘🏼😄
I have that record even though never being a giant Daft Punk fan. I never really thought too deeply about there music so its really fun having your eyes opened about what went in to make it and how special of a piece of art it is. Thanks for all the breakdowns you do. I've learned so much and even added a lot of new artists to my iTunes playlists.
Great video. I never appreciated Daft Punk on this level. I thought they were fun, catchy songs, but didn't see the detailed complexity of their compositions. Thanks.
The cool thing about Discovery is the amount of stuff they made to sound like samples. I especially love the Wurlitzer on Digital Love, which is an homage to Supertramp. Their work is so inspiring.
Dude I love that you break this stuff down. Most people never understand this in depth of someone’s creation so you help us see the true genius outside of just the music sounding good. You help us understand the whole story.
I love this album, especially the movie that paired with it(interstella 5555). This album told a story and seeing it visually projected was just too perfect.
Face to face sample usage is mind opening , it's so easy to take a clip from a song and repeat it over and over , but this is artist innovation on another level, their success is well earned. Definitely makes me want to step up my sample game
Oof! I hoped you would do this video one day, but to actually see you pull it off is bonkers. Thank you for this, now we can better educate people on why Daft Punk is was influential. It's crazy how they went through all the work for those three albums before RAM and just decide to chop up their own songs for the ALIVE tour. They have such a great understanding of their own music to be able to do that to your own work. This video is epic. I would love a hundred more like these, we should get Patreon started or something. You're starting to become something like music class to most of us. Thank you very much!
This is my favorite video from you so far, loved every second of it. Daft punk and discovery in general are huge influences to my sampling style and production.
Its worth mentioning that both “Something About Us” and “Voyager” interpolate elements from Oliver Cheatham’s “Get Down Saturday Night” - a sample that has also found its way into other huge tracks since (Michael Gray’s “The Weekend”, Room 5’s “Make Luv”) And Thundercat samples Something About Us on “A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II)” I feel like Im missing more but i can’t get over the influence Daft Punk and this album have had, thank you for making this video!!
Nice one. Yeah with something about Us I always thought it sounds like oliver cheatham but where do you hear elements of get down its Saturday night in voyager?
@@THOMASTAYIMOEHL i remember hearing that the chord progression for the pad in the beginning and throughout Voyager came from the pad in Get Down Saturday Night but now that Ive looked into it more it might just be a coincidence, Ive been seeing people say its a fully original song
Oh man. Oh man, oh man. This is a very special album to me. I was 11 when it was released and remember hearing One more Time on toonami. Then 6 years later, I'm graduating high school, entering college and come across a video that said "I love Daft Punk...but..." then proceeded to show some of the samples. I thought it was so cool, and decided to listen to the actual album since I had only known 3 songs off of it. I listened to that album so much I can't think of 2007 without thinking about Daft Punks discovery. I then fell down the rabbit hole of people trying to find ALL of the samples and recreate them. I remember everyone trying to figure out Face to face for the longest time, but I never heard someone point out the "Face to face now, face to face with me" like...WHAT lmao.
amazing video! and just want to point out that you are absolutely right about this album having a hero's journey narrative arc. there's a visual companion piece to this album called interstellar 5555 that's has to be mentioned when speaking about this album that shows you the journey that hero goes on. it has no dialogue, and each song from the album is a scene in the film that tells the hero's story. it is absolutely incredible and I highly recommend it to fans of this album. it really drives the whole project home.
I really thought Interstella 5555 (the companion animated movie that tells a full story to this album) would show up more. Great breakdown of the music on this epic album. If you like this album definitely seek the movie.
I was literally just listening to this album earlier today. Wondering if you would ever do a video on it. Dreams do come true. Great channel man and great video
Another great video!! the sampling techniques are amazing... makes me think of Since I left You by the Avalanches -- which (I believe) has hundreds, maybe thousands of samples in it. Keep up the great work fam!
Superb video, well done. I've been listening to Daft Punk constantly since my discovery of them in 2001, this album is truly a masterpiece and your breakdown and analysis really shows that (for those who didn't already know)
This is nuts, Ive been a big DP Fan since Junior High 1997. I was 17 When discovery came out And just now bought it on vinyl a few days ago. The Way you broke down DP's Tracks and played them Samples is incredible. As a Man born in the states to Liberian immigrant parents, I didn't even know about Eddie Johns and him being a Liberian. I had to Draw the dial back 3 times just to make sure i heard you say what i thought you said. That's some Satellite vision right there. You made another damn good video. You're a scientist Bro. I love the Kanye Vid as well. Im still trying to get Graduation on Vinyl LOL. I Love RIPX as well, i bought it 2 Months ago to Midi Convert some old House Tracks i produced years ago, its an incredible Tool. Appreciate you.
I grew up on this album and it changed my life I remember showing my friends in middle school and we all started djing on this website in tech lab, really cool to see you play the samples live good video really cool !
Big respect how you combine your Musik skills, know how, research and content creation. Im always happy when I see a new upload. The face to face break down was mind blowing👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 High quality content 💯💯💯never stop with these videos!
Great video. Wicked topic, couldn’t agree more. I thought it was quite cool to hear a professional who was well into his years explaining how Daft Punk blew him away. It seemed as if he couldn’t believe how much depth the album had by nature, all of it. Glad they stayed together as long as they did. They were insanely creative while working together. Not many like them.
Covering more EDM I see. Freaking love your channel. I've learned so much about my favorite hip hop/soul artists I didn't know before. Would highly recommend JUSTICE and Disclosure to cover more EDM!!
Excellent video! Love how you show the samples being captured, then processed and then voilá, almost the finished song. I would love to see a similar video on St Germain's Tourist album.
There's something beautifull when you get explained and understard, why you like something that you liked, and you didnt know why you did. And thenk you like it even more. THANK YOU.
I finally found the Edwin Birdsong record at a local record shop and got it for a steal of a deal. I wouldn’t have grabbed it if I hadn’t watched your video on Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Salute! Edit: Also, I think breaking down 10cc’s music and how they’ve been sampled through history (ie: Dilla’s Workinonit) would be sick. They are definitely under appreciated
You've done justice to the brilliance of their sampling & production methods (and sharing it in a form that will educate a younger audience, possibly inspiring future producers). Loved this video Brandon, you've been on a roll lately with amazing content. Your deep love and appreciation of music, in general, couldn't be hidden from us, if you tried. You've become one of my favorite music channels over the last 6 months, and I can't wait to see what other tracks / albums / artists you'll share your love and knowledge of! Keep up the great work!
Yeah but thinking of actually doing that, picking the right record, sampling the right parts, using the right drums to fit is way harder than how youre making it sound
Face to face is my favourite track on that album. Listened to it again in between watching elements of your videos and ive just somehow fallen deeper in love with DP!! Thanks man! Great video. We clearly arent/werent worthy of their incredible music.
Brilliant digging as usual, always an education. For me, Homework is by far their best album. It genuinely blew mind when i first heard it. I’m indifferent to the follow ups, just not my taste. They were incredibly talented 😎
I've been waiting SOOOOO LONG for you to do a video on this. Daft punk is amazing and discovery is beyond godlike. Fantastic video my man! If you haven't heard the Alive 2007 alive albums where they mix their songs together, plz listen. SO GOOOOOOD!!!
Love watching and re-watching this video. As a person who went to college for music composition (said college shut down), and also is a huge fan of daft punk, this video never fails to fill me with motivation and passion for anything. Keep up all the great work!
Best thing about this album for me was discovering (yes I went there) the animated music videos were a whole coherent movie that can be watched from start to finish. I spent an evening watching it and the album stayed on my playlist for years. It actually never left.
Amazing video as always, but the samples you showcased for 'Face to Face' are only the tip of the iceberg. There are so many "microchops" of various other songs from the same era that weren't discovered until recently. This video does a pretty good job of recreating all those samples th-cam.com/video/maaVzL8zhoQ/w-d-xo.html This just shows how incredible Daft Punk were at their craft!
Man, this was a great video! Watched till the end! I’ve been a huge daft punk fan forever. I feel House production doesn’t get it’s just due sometime. When One More Time came out, it was such a banger people forget how well it was produced. I was just a little kid when Around The World came out, but being from Chicago I was lucky enough that it was really played a lot. I love where daft punk started there music journey and ended. Such a talented duo!
Dude, the amount of passion you have for what you do and the excellent way you communicate it through video is inspiring. These explorative videos are top notch, and the fact that they are delivered from the perspective of a DJ who like me, loves samples, it's just extremely special. Just want to say thank you and keep them coming.
Daft Punk is one of the best artists there is period, any genre, like kings among kings lol That "Christopher Rob" line in face to face has stumped me for almost 20years thank you so much for telling me that I always thought it was "face to face, now"
The making of of Random Access Memory - Daft Punk: We need a drummer for that track. - John “JR” Robinson enters in the studio: I can play - DP: Great just hit the snare drum once - JR: ???? Just one shot, like that? 🎵 - DP: Not exactly the sound we want, do it again please. And again. And again. …. After 1 hour hitting the drum in exactly the same way (at least for any normal human ears) - DP: That’s it! That’s exactly the sound we want for this particular beat. Now we can sample it. Thanks JR
This is the kind of musical creativity that inspires you to want to get into music production, small, subtle bits of whole songs that are cut & pasted in such beautiful ways.
You seriously blew my mind with the Face to Face part!! I LOVE this album so darn much and I got chills when you did that part of the album. It's so amazing how they did it and I am glad that we got such a masterpiece yet sad I never got to see them live.
Brandon, your bass playing is phenom. Listened to your "Rock You With You" opened stream (that mashup of the Reflex Revision/Lizzo was fantastic!; hear some vestiges of Jaco' in your fast, fret'd lines; your tone and chops are stellar! You have great taste in the musical Canon! I love this series; your passion is palpable and I dig the wry sense of things you embody in voicing a knowledgeable pov! I'm an old HH and House Dj from the 80s (200lbs of records lugged to the gigs...). Still trying to figure out what you're doing with those "turntable" like gizmos? You're mixing digital files with the circular scratch and line-up like controls, yes; then triggering files, sounds, with the buttons? Looks like you're finding a "1" with the buttons, too? After a 30 year hiatus, I just returned to music production at age 58; learning Ableton 11 but am not hip to the current Dj tools, lol; minimal "...yelling at clouds", too... ♥
Ah, I see. This Serato thing is a software / hardware Dj performance and music production suite, yes? I don't see it referred to in your description of gear.
Ah, then at the end you go to Ableton and another controller / trigger gizmo... I'm going to study the use of each tool suite for its application in this video. I haven't even figured out how to correctly map my Keylab Mk11 pads to Ableton in Daw mode, lol...(got 'em in user mode). Love how easy you made it look to load up samples in a Drum rack!!! Just starting learn about Able's Drum racks...
10cc’s achievement to do what they did with the contemporary technology available is stunning. The _whole_ song is them on vocals with a small backbeat. The beautiful background hiss you hear are the overtones produced when all the “ahhs” are left at a minimal volume through the whole single. They then literally went next door to the receptionist in their studio and asked her spontaneously to do some talking. She had no idea this was coming. It’s a career defining achievement.
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The album doesn't just 'almost' have a hero's journey. It HAS one. Looking into how the music videos were made, it was literally designed to be the soundtrack to the movie they had made. They went to a very famous Japanese animé director, handed him the album and went 'here you go, wanna make an animé movie for us, with this as the only audio?' He said yes, though it does have some sound effects on it from the film studio as well. But there are no spoken words in the movie, it's ALL told straight through this album, in sequence as it is on the record.
This album was literally written as the hero's journey for a film they hadn't had made yet! The GENIUS to pull that off!♥️👍
Why Random Access Memories is such a cool finale album from Daft Punk is because instead of using samples from released songs like they previously did, they got artists who they previously sampled to play hours of music for them, and sampled through their own recordings
And julien casablanca…
i think thats why i dont enjoy it as much. it feels inauthentic and bland. same issue with Justice - they got enough money and studio access to actually make the stuff they used to sample and it loses the attitude and transgressive vibe that sampling brings. i understand people liking RAM, and what they like about it, but the whole album is pretty much a skip for me.
@@vvvictoriav5958 Well, that's just plain stupid.
@@JohnDoe-vc5qb having an opinion is stupid? I can’t help if I don’t enjoy an album mate. I’m like a mega fan of their other work
@@vvvictoriav5958 Yes
7:26 "Veridis quo" has also an other play on word than "Very Disco", it's "Discovery" the name of the album
Holy shit in 22 years I never noticed this.
Mind. Blown. 😳
face to face is an absolute masterclass in microchopping. there's been like, 19 tiny bits from different individual records found throughout the various parts of the song. the winnie the pooh one blew me away. amazing video as always my g!
Right?? I never realized he was actually saying “Christopher” in the original song. And that “you are - face to face - with me” bit, just a cool touch.
I love mondegreens (misheard lyrics) and for years I thought the "Christopher Rob..." bit was "Mr. Furlong". It never made any sense to me, but that's what I sang anyway.
@@AutPen38 I totally misheard it as well, but in completely different ways. When I first heard it I would always hear it as "face to face now" and "face to face", since that's the song title. But I later read somewhere (wrongly) that it was a French sample, and then I couldn't stop hearing it in as "qu'est-ce tu fais là" and "qu'est-ce tu fais", which means "what are you doing there" and "what are you doing". Pretty wild the way our brains fill in the gaps when we aren't certain what something is.
if I remember properly, it's exactly 22 samples. there's a video on TH-cam of a guy finding all 22 and recreating the song
@@Verm1n Todd reveals all the samples th-cam.com/video/z8vfJgK2fyc/w-d-xo.html
That Face to Face breakdown blew me away...still discovering stuff off of this classic. Your take on Justice's Cross would be interesting as well.
That album is 🔥
Justice has some really good music
I second this notion.
any justice breakdown would be fire. my favorite song is the party because it touches on so many individual aspects and makes them new
Yes do JUSTICE
Guys, it's over. They found the last Face To Face sample just now. After 22 years, it's finally over.
Its crazy to me that daft punk transformed the words "Christopher Robin" to "face to face now"
Its absolutely beautiful!
Daft Punk's ear for sampling is unreal. What they can do making collage of song snippets is what makes them so special to me. Loved the part where you played Fave to Face live!
I agree, the way they can chop up samples in a way which is tasteful and not obnoxious is almost unreal
I still think that no one can beat god of sampling Liam Howlett from The Prodigy. But Duft Punk are also legends for them selves.
@@misticx Liam Howlett sampling techniques are indeed crazy.
Daft Punk’s “Discovery” is a masterpiece. Easily, the best album of 2001, and that is saying a lot.
I’d say it’s even one of the greatest albums in the history of electronic music (if not THE greatest, or at least, the most impactful) and one of the best albums of the 21st century, all genres included.
the glow pt 2 seeing this
What album from 2001 can compete with it in your opinion?
@@erruz7606 blueprint
@@erruz7606 System Of a Down - Toxicity, Jay-Z - Blueprint, The White Stripes - White Blood Cells, Gorillaz, Basement Jaxx- Rooty, and Aaliyah. 2001 was loaded
The Face to Face samples were played live on a keyboard, Todd Edwards has explained how they made it in an interview. And the sample wasn’t chosen because it sounds like it says face to face, the sample inspired the song title.
that seems much mire likely, the samples take on a life of their own
Yeh he was overthinking a few things in this video.
I thought you bringing everything together for One More Time was good, then Face to Face gave me chills. This is amazing work. It's almost unfair how well you put these together. Keep it up.
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@@diggingthegreatsYes, your live Face to Face performance was crazy!! I’m bummed I missed you at NAMM 😔
Honestly, if you are interested in branching out in more stories about samples used in music, the controversy behind Dangermouse "The Gray Album", Jay-Z, The Beatles, and EMI snatching that concept with the cease and desist order to flip The Gray Album into a Linkin Park release... That can't be ignored. PLEASE! This story is often forgotten and needs to be told.
I don't know the part about the Linkin Park release
I’ve never thought about that. It’s obvious now I’ve heard it.
It wrote itself
@@MutleeIsTheAntiGod Short version of the story :
- Dangermouse took an EMI released a capella of Jay-Z's Black Album and remixed it from start to finish with The Beatles White Album. He named the result "The Gray Album".
- EMI (Jay-Z's label) pulled the a capella from circulation and issues a cease and desist order to Dangermouse adding the threat of a copyright infringement lawsuit despite the fact that Dangermouse distributed The Gray Album for free online profiting on none of it. It was Dangermouse demonstrating what quality sampling is capable of.
- The internet caught wind of a big label trying to squeeze money from an independent artist and held a mass protests, having major websites display their sites in grayscale, showing solidarity for Dangermouse.
- Months after the protests and lawsuit threats, EMI released a "collaboration" with Linkin Park + Jay-Z, stealing Dangermouse's initial idea for commercial use.
Limping Punk. Unlistenable.
Dude, please please don't stop making these videos! Each one gets better. Thank you so much.
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Fantastic story telling!
It’s so great that there’s content being made for all of us sampling geeks out there!!!
This is one of those “why it sucks we are somewhat in a post album era”. Any singular song won’t blow you away with production techniques (not saying they’re bad) but when you see how they pull together such varying processes to create the album, you appreciate it that much more.
idk man, I think a lot of electronic producers push those boundaries but since electronic music isn't big on the radio, you dont hear that side of the production much. Porter Robinson and Flume are great examples as well as Skrillex
but I agree, Daft Punks techniques were awesome on this album
Are we post album with electronic music? seems like they are just called "sets" now. That's how I view it.
There are plenty of artists out there who still make albums like albums people just like complaining
I completely agree with this take but not just from a electronic music perspective…. It is SO FUCKING HARD to make a full album great start to finish, it’s what sets apart the great ones from the ok/good ones.
With that said there’s still bands/artists making great albums the great ones always will. The problem I think is us the listeners, I think people just don’t listen to full albums anymore, they listen to songs/playlists it’s not right or wrong but because of this artists focus is making 1 hit song instead of cohesive albums….
please. i WILL KILL for a full sample breakdown in your style for face to face. all the samples have been found for it and the way you do it is crazy.
Thank you for covering one of the best albums of all time
I gotchu 🔥
"Face to Face" is one of my all time favorite songs. I have huge respect to Todd Edwards and his sampling style since his catalog in the UK Garage genre is also pretty massive. I can just imagine Thomas and Todd splicing up countless samples and tossing ideas for that track. We're still finding samples from this song and the song is over 22 years old!
The sampling in Face To Face is so good that there’s a chance that I’ll die before they find every single sample.
Edit: NEVERMIND You guys are amazing!
There are only two samples left in Face to Face that we haven't discovered yet. Considering they figured out what samples made up the second half of Too Long, my bet is we'll find the last two samples of Face to Face in another year or two
@@pc_buildyb0i935 where can i read about this sample search?
@@mattsephton I don't think there's any written material covering any of this, but TH-cam videos have been uploaded showcasing the samples, including the mystery sample.
Todd Edwards did a livestream where he revealed some of the actual clips sampled in F2F, which is how 3 of 4 mystery samples were discovered. Now there's just one left
They found a new one recently, it's crazy
@@Diegomolinams98 Which one?
Daft Punk are absolute legends in dance music, and Discovery is a masterpiece. I cried manly tears when they broke-up in 2021
Don't remind me that it was already more than two years ago 😭
OMFG you reproducing the face to face sampling gave me GOOSEBUMPS!! WOW Daft Punk were geniuses with this album. I did NOT appreciate it at first and always chose human after all as my fave album by them but the craft behind this one is stellar!! GENIUS!
Todd Edwards is THE expert on vocal samples, I have been a UKG fan (and DJ) for over 25 years and anything by Todd was always groundbreaking!
I can’t believe that sample for the Face to Face hook, hearing Christopher robin for the first time after listening to that hundreds of times has blown my mind!
Your ability to recreate all these samples and beats is super impressive! Keep it up!
For sure 🎉
One of my favourite albums of all time. I had it on CD when i was a kid and i would listen to it on repeat every night for about 6 months. Phenominal!
OMG YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING IT LIVE.
That's AWESOME. Subscribed.
Genuine nostalgic chills rose in me once you started cutting up Spell on You to make THAT beat.
It's so good 🔥
Dude, the face to face breakdown made my jaw drop. Legit 🤯
Amazing video!
I saw on TH-cam comments years ago somebody said that the album is called Discovery because of after enjoying the music on there, you get to discover a whole different genre of music after looking into the sampling
So hyped for RAM's 10 year anniversary today
Omg its ten years already 😢??
I have it on my mind like it was yesterday
Face 2 Face is top 5 songs of all time to me. This break down blew me away.
I've been following your channel for a while now. Just wanted to comment to let you know that I and probably many others admire the effort you put into these videos, both research-wise and in the recreation of the samples. Keep on doing what you're doing, it's amazing!!
Ngl this is the best music youtube channel of all time. Everything from the script to the production quality is 🔥
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You’re my fav channel beside Polyphonic when it comes to history of music and understanding all the ingredients what makes these tunes great! Keep it up 🙏🏼
these guys are geniuses, never seen so much dedication in a band like them, and probably we haven't discovered all samples they used
On the track ‘Teachers’ from the Homework album, they cite a lot of their musical influences/heroes. Clearly very much by House, Techno and Funk artists from Chicago and Detroit scenes 💚
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@@J.Braxton Haha, very good, touche 😂😎
Very much, but not totally 😉
They cited Dr Dre as well most likely a nod to his g gunk production technique on The Chronic. That alone felt like a history lesson inusicology
MY GOSH!! I was not expecting this from you!!! Thank you so much! Daft Punk is my all-time favorite artist, and you did an amazing job of showing their work here.
I’ve watched pretty much every video on their techniques and stuff, but you still managed to teach me some new things!! Awesome, just thank you so much, keep doin your thang! 🤘🏼😄
I have that record even though never being a giant Daft Punk fan. I never really thought too deeply about there music so its really fun having your eyes opened about what went in to make it and how special of a piece of art it is. Thanks for all the breakdowns you do. I've learned so much and even added a lot of new artists to my iTunes playlists.
Great video. I never appreciated Daft Punk on this level. I thought they were fun, catchy songs, but didn't see the detailed complexity of their compositions. Thanks.
The cool thing about Discovery is the amount of stuff they made to sound like samples. I especially love the Wurlitzer on Digital Love, which is an homage to Supertramp. Their work is so inspiring.
Daft Punk and Liam from The Prodigy are the best at taking samples and making new magic and high art.
Never been much into this style of music, but Daft Punk transcend genres, and are definitely worth checking out.
Dude I love that you break this stuff down. Most people never understand this in depth of someone’s creation so you help us see the true genius outside of just the music sounding good. You help us understand the whole story.
I love this album, especially the movie that paired with it(interstella 5555). This album told a story and seeing it visually projected was just too perfect.
How am I only learning about this channel now!? History AND technique? Hells yes!
I never knew that was how 10cc created I’m not in love. That makes me respect the song that much more wow 😮
Face to face sample usage is mind opening , it's so easy to take a clip from a song and repeat it over and over , but this is artist innovation on another level, their success is well earned. Definitely makes me want to step up my sample game
Oof! I hoped you would do this video one day, but to actually see you pull it off is bonkers. Thank you for this, now we can better educate people on why Daft Punk is was influential. It's crazy how they went through all the work for those three albums before RAM and just decide to chop up their own songs for the ALIVE tour. They have such a great understanding of their own music to be able to do that to your own work. This video is epic. I would love a hundred more like these, we should get Patreon started or something. You're starting to become something like music class to most of us. Thank you very much!
Man your channel rips, you are great! Thank you for the great content 🙏
Todd Edwards is a LEGEND. He literally MADE UK garage
This is my favorite video from you so far, loved every second of it. Daft punk and discovery in general are huge influences to my sampling style and production.
Its worth mentioning that both “Something About Us” and “Voyager” interpolate elements from Oliver Cheatham’s “Get Down Saturday Night” - a sample that has also found its way into other huge tracks since (Michael Gray’s “The Weekend”, Room 5’s “Make Luv”)
And Thundercat samples Something About Us on “A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II)”
I feel like Im missing more but i can’t get over the influence Daft Punk and this album have had, thank you for making this video!!
Definitely - I wish I would have said more on that! And yes, this album is massively influential, incredible all around
Nice one. Yeah with something about Us I always thought it sounds like oliver cheatham but where do you hear elements of get down its Saturday night in voyager?
@@THOMASTAYIMOEHL i remember hearing that the chord progression for the pad in the beginning and throughout Voyager came from the pad in Get Down Saturday Night but now that Ive looked into it more it might just be a coincidence, Ive been seeing people say its a fully original song
This is my first intro to this channel, and holy shit, what an impact. The pace and breadth of this video is fantastic.
Oh man. Oh man, oh man. This is a very special album to me. I was 11 when it was released and remember hearing One more Time on toonami. Then 6 years later, I'm graduating high school, entering college and come across a video that said "I love Daft Punk...but..." then proceeded to show some of the samples. I thought it was so cool, and decided to listen to the actual album since I had only known 3 songs off of it. I listened to that album so much I can't think of 2007 without thinking about Daft Punks discovery.
I then fell down the rabbit hole of people trying to find ALL of the samples and recreate them. I remember everyone trying to figure out Face to face for the longest time, but I never heard someone point out the "Face to face now, face to face with me" like...WHAT lmao.
This is my favorite channel on youtube, I love nerding out about samples and usually have no one to talk to about them
amazing video! and just want to point out that you are absolutely right about this album having a hero's journey narrative arc. there's a visual companion piece to this album called interstellar 5555 that's has to be mentioned when speaking about this album that shows you the journey that hero goes on. it has no dialogue, and each song from the album is a scene in the film that tells the hero's story. it is absolutely incredible and I highly recommend it to fans of this album. it really drives the whole project home.
I really thought Interstella 5555 (the companion animated movie that tells a full story to this album) would show up more. Great breakdown of the music on this epic album. If you like this album definitely seek the movie.
I was literally just listening to this album earlier today. Wondering if you would ever do a video on it. Dreams do come true. Great channel man and great video
Another great video!! the sampling techniques are amazing... makes me think of Since I left You by the Avalanches -- which (I believe) has hundreds, maybe thousands of samples in it. Keep up the great work fam!
Superb video, well done. I've been listening to Daft Punk constantly since my discovery of them in 2001, this album is truly a masterpiece and your breakdown and analysis really shows that (for those who didn't already know)
This is nuts, Ive been a big DP Fan since Junior High 1997. I was 17 When discovery came out And just now bought it on vinyl a few days ago. The Way you broke down DP's Tracks and played them Samples is incredible. As a Man born in the states to Liberian immigrant parents, I didn't even know about Eddie Johns and him being a Liberian. I had to Draw the dial back 3 times just to make sure i heard you say what i thought you said. That's some Satellite vision right there. You made another damn good video. You're a scientist Bro. I love the Kanye Vid as well. Im still trying to get Graduation on Vinyl LOL. I Love RIPX as well, i bought it 2 Months ago to Midi Convert some old House Tracks i produced years ago, its an incredible Tool. Appreciate you.
I grew up on this album and it changed my life I remember showing my friends in middle school and we all started djing on this website in tech lab, really cool to see you play the samples live good video really cool
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Big respect how you combine your Musik skills, know how, research and content creation. Im always happy when I see a new upload. The face to face break down was mind blowing👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
High quality content 💯💯💯never stop with these videos!
Great video. Wicked topic, couldn’t agree more. I thought it was quite cool to hear a professional who was well into his years explaining how Daft Punk blew him away. It seemed as if he couldn’t believe how much depth the album had by nature, all of it. Glad they stayed together as long as they did. They were insanely creative while working together. Not many like them.
Man I feel so happy to see the Robots being popular again, I love your videos also you're such a good content creator 🙌🤖
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Covering more EDM I see. Freaking love your channel. I've learned so much about my favorite hip hop/soul artists I didn't know before. Would highly recommend JUSTICE and Disclosure to cover more EDM!!
Excellent video! Love how you show the samples being captured, then processed and then voilá, almost the finished song. I would love to see a similar video on St Germain's Tourist album.
There's something beautifull when you get explained and understard, why you like something that you liked, and you didnt know why you did. And thenk you like it even more. THANK YOU.
I finally found the Edwin Birdsong record at a local record shop and got it for a steal of a deal. I wouldn’t have grabbed it if I hadn’t watched your video on Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Salute!
Edit: Also, I think breaking down 10cc’s music and how they’ve been sampled through history (ie: Dilla’s Workinonit) would be sick. They are definitely under appreciated
You've done justice to the brilliance of their sampling & production methods (and sharing it in a form that will educate a younger audience, possibly inspiring future producers). Loved this video Brandon, you've been on a roll lately with amazing content. Your deep love and appreciation of music, in general, couldn't be hidden from us, if you tried. You've become one of my favorite music channels over the last 6 months, and I can't wait to see what other tracks / albums / artists you'll share your love and knowledge of! Keep up the great work!
How to Daft Punk: Take an old record, slow it down, cut and play housebeat.
Yeah but thinking of actually doing that, picking the right record, sampling the right parts, using the right drums to fit is way harder than how youre making it sound
Forgot one important step, pick good sources and actually make it sound good
This is an absolutely INCREDIBLE breakdown of this shit. BRAVO, sir. I’m speechless. That 10 CC’s finding, outstanding.
I'm a nerd and I approve of this video
No shit 😂! Totally
Bro you’re cool as fk!! Good to see someone luving n having fun with music!! No dramas or sht talk about anything!!
The man!!🤙🏾🤙🏾
Face to face is my favourite track on that album. Listened to it again in between watching elements of your videos and ive just somehow fallen deeper in love with DP!!
Thanks man! Great video. We clearly arent/werent worthy of their incredible music.
Brilliant digging as usual, always an education.
For me, Homework is by far their best album. It genuinely blew mind when i first heard it. I’m indifferent to the follow ups, just not my taste. They were incredibly talented 😎
I've been waiting SOOOOO LONG for you to do a video on this. Daft punk is amazing and discovery is beyond godlike. Fantastic video my man! If you haven't heard the Alive 2007 alive albums where they mix their songs together, plz listen. SO GOOOOOOD!!!
I finally introduced my 3-year-old to this record and he loved it!! it's a classic.
Love watching and re-watching this video. As a person who went to college for music composition (said college shut down), and also is a huge fan of daft punk, this video never fails to fill me with motivation and passion for anything. Keep up all the great work!
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Best thing about this album for me was discovering (yes I went there) the animated music videos were a whole coherent movie that can be watched from start to finish. I spent an evening watching it and the album stayed on my playlist for years. It actually never left.
Amazing video as always, but the samples you showcased for 'Face to Face' are only the tip of the iceberg. There are so many "microchops" of various other songs from the same era that weren't discovered until recently. This video does a pretty good job of recreating all those samples th-cam.com/video/maaVzL8zhoQ/w-d-xo.html This just shows how incredible Daft Punk were at their craft!
This is seriously mind blowing!! Much respect to you for breaking this down like that.
This is why Daft Punk has become my all-time favorite artists. They are just so so creative. I really hope they come back one day
Man, this was a great video! Watched till the end! I’ve been a huge daft punk fan forever. I feel House production doesn’t get it’s just due sometime. When One More Time came out, it was such a banger people forget how well it was produced. I was just a little kid when Around The World came out, but being from Chicago I was lucky enough that it was really played a lot. I love where daft punk started there music journey and ended. Such a talented duo!
I need this video to go viral, this level of effort deserves it! Amazing!!!!!!!!!
Dude, the amount of passion you have for what you do and the excellent way you communicate it through video is inspiring. These explorative videos are top notch, and the fact that they are delivered from the perspective of a DJ who like me, loves samples, it's just extremely special. Just want to say thank you and keep them coming.
This is the penultimate video to discover the penultimate wording to describe penultimacy in music production. Bravo!
Yea Boi! The video I've been waiting for! Great masterclass 👌
Daft Punk is one of the best artists there is period, any genre, like kings among kings lol
That "Christopher Rob" line in face to face has stumped me for almost 20years thank you so much for telling me that I always thought it was "face to face, now"
You continually blow it out of the park. Make me want to make music through exploration and beyond!
The making of of Random Access Memory
- Daft Punk: We need a drummer for that track.
- John “JR” Robinson enters in the studio: I can play
- DP: Great just hit the snare drum once
- JR: ???? Just one shot, like that? 🎵
- DP: Not exactly the sound we want, do it again please.
And again.
And again.
…. After 1 hour hitting the drum in exactly the same way (at least for any normal human ears)
- DP: That’s it! That’s exactly the sound we want for this particular beat. Now we can sample it. Thanks JR
Im surprised this chamnel doesnt have more subs.
Giving credit where credit is due.
This is the kind of musical creativity that inspires you to want to get into music production, small, subtle bits of whole songs that are cut & pasted in such beautiful ways.
Nicely done! I used to teach this back in the day but not to this level… how you/they did “Face to Face”…. yup, that was special. Big up
I swear this is becoming my favorite channel
You seriously blew my mind with the Face to Face part!! I LOVE this album so darn much and I got chills when you did that part of the album. It's so amazing how they did it and I am glad that we got such a masterpiece yet sad I never got to see them live.
This is the channel I needed. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTENT!!!!!!!
Brandon, your bass playing is phenom. Listened to your "Rock You With You" opened stream (that mashup of the Reflex Revision/Lizzo was fantastic!; hear some vestiges of Jaco' in your fast, fret'd lines; your tone and chops are stellar! You have great taste in the musical Canon! I love this series; your passion is palpable and I dig the wry sense of things you embody in voicing a knowledgeable pov! I'm an old HH and House Dj from the 80s (200lbs of records lugged to the gigs...). Still trying to figure out what you're doing with those "turntable" like gizmos? You're mixing digital files with the circular scratch and line-up like controls, yes; then triggering files, sounds, with the buttons? Looks like you're finding a "1" with the buttons, too? After a 30 year hiatus, I just returned to music production at age 58; learning Ableton 11 but am not hip to the current Dj tools, lol; minimal "...yelling at clouds", too... ♥
Ah, I see. This Serato thing is a software / hardware Dj performance and music production suite, yes? I don't see it referred to in your description of gear.
Ah, then at the end you go to Ableton and another controller / trigger gizmo... I'm going to study the use of each tool suite for its application in this video. I haven't even figured out how to correctly map my Keylab Mk11 pads to Ableton in Daw mode, lol...(got 'em in user mode). Love how easy you made it look to load up samples in a Drum rack!!! Just starting learn about Able's Drum racks...
10cc’s achievement to do what they did with the contemporary technology available is stunning.
The _whole_ song is them on vocals with a small backbeat.
The beautiful background hiss you hear are the overtones produced when all the “ahhs” are left at a minimal volume through the whole single.
They then literally went next door to the receptionist in their studio and asked her spontaneously to do some talking. She had no idea this was coming.
It’s a career defining achievement.
Idk how you seem to profile all of my favorites. I’ve watched many of your videos but this one really takes the cake. Masterfully done!