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mvw noted that Toonami is serving up the
four videos
directed by Star Blazers creator Leiji Matsumoto for the first four tracks on
Daft Punk album Discovery. The album is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite CDs. The videos are impressive too, telling a continuing story through each of the four songs with that distinctive style. Anyway, I was just pleased to see them online since I only got to see them once when Toonami aired them. and figured others would enjoy this.
Has CoyBoyNeal become a musician or something?
Wasn't Star Blazers suppose to be on Toonami? Anyway, anime seems like Daft's style, and it is very good.
forget it.
Who the fuck even cares about these videos?
Can we all now post stories about our favourite artists?
Then I will post about my favourite band later.. my band.
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Damn limited titles.
I'm totally gonna get painted a troll for this, but while I really like the direction they've taken with their new videos et al, I haven't heard anything inspirational from Daft Punk since one of them went off and did 'music sounds better with you'. Strange that a vital, interesting band that produced 'revolution 909' and the excellent 'around the world' then ended up producing a parody of a cheesy hands-in-the-air house track, only to then recreate themselves based on a parody of that one track!
Anyway, goodbye Karma. But I'd urge any fans of the new album that don't know the first to go and get it right now! It will change your mind about how good they really are.
toeslikefingers.com - because
http://cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/reactor/daftpunk /media/
much better than the annoying frames pages, ne?
Launch.com has 3 of the four. Harder, Better, faster, Stonger, One More Try, and Aerodynamic. All at up to 300kps. Get them before launch runs out of money completely and dies any second now. BTW, a fake email address is fine for registration.
-Tom
Maybe you should make Anonymous Cowards start out at -1.
Am I the only one whose browser (IE 5.5) crashes when loading the videos? There is no mention on the website about plug ins or anything (it's entirely possible I'm a retard), so I'm kind of stumped. I want to see those videos, dammit!
When nuance becomes the only objective we lose the ability to function
I downloaded all those videos and watched them all and then I realised... this isnt porn!!
What is wrong with you people? Wasting my bandwith with music! pahhh!
Wow, Daft Punk videos. I could see how this would be considered "important" if the videos were open source ....
Daft Punk has admitted they are not even really musicians. Their music reflects this. Strongly. My girlfriend threatened to leave me if I continued playing "One More Time"! Upon reflection, she was right, but she actually has a better ear for music than I do.
Star Blazers has many things going for it on many different levels....
Battleship Yamato and its history for one thing...and it has been resurrected and outfitted for space travel/combat! I'm in for a dollar! Wish we could get anime for the USS New Jersey that was so rousing!
Personally, I wish you'd stop plugging them because the album "Discovery" is to "Homework" as Cher's "Believe" is to, well, "Homework." The animation is fine and all but their earlier videos are at least as good and the songs aren't such crap. Only "Aerodynamic" is anywhere near as good as the singles from the first album. Stop obsession CmdrTaco...
In some parts of the world, geeks who slave over computers 18 hours a day actually enjoy anime. Is that a crime? Personally, after a long 13 hour day dealing with a bunch of illiterate MS user cretins, this was a nice post to come home to. So thanks! And at least now I know which group came up with "One More Time." And no. This type of entertainment does not make me forget what's happening "out there". If your so worried about appearing concerned about this war, you don't have to visit Slashdot.
You used to plug Who albums and Pete Townshend projects, and now you post shit like Crap Punk! Slashdot really *has* gone downhill, hasn't it.
I haven't heard anything inspirational from Daft Punk since one of them went off and did 'music sounds better with you'. Strange that a vital, interesting band that produced 'revolution 909' and the excellent 'around the world' then ended up producing a parody of a cheesy hands-in-the-air house track, only to then recreate themselves based on a parody of that one track!
Amen, amen to that. The first album was really good in a fun and simple way. They totally went crap after that.
And the video with the dog-man was classic. I remember getting a kick out of the fact the bus driver kicked him off the bus because of his boom box, but didn't give a fuck that he was a dog!
Okay this whole article is pointless but I guess slashdot is a little slow 2nite. I thought CTaco was into The Who and stuff.
Hmm, time to put on Homework.
you're absolutely right ! homework was an awesome album. discovery is not that bad but it sounds like media whoring radio tunes ! it used to be all about killer electronic beats that really rocked.. I will not buy this new album.
Prog all the way! I've been listening to Close to the Edge over and over again all day! Down by a river! Seasons will pass you by!
the videos were decidedly 3rd rate, but the music more than made up for it. I might as well just put that on ;)
Photos.
I thought a lot like some of the first replies to this topic:"Man, they have gone to sh*t, the first album was SO much better" Please, give the songs on this album achance. It really does grow on you. They are just as brilliant on this one as the previous one. Digital Love is BRILLIANT song, keeps bringing back Welcome Back Kotter in my head. Isn`t that what music is all about! :-)
Got it streaming on ie5.5 as I type.
http://daftpunknet.multimania.com/
(Link)
Windows Media and Real Player formats only unfortunately.
Time to come clean Taco: did you purchase this CD from Amazon?
Sorry, but the videos are real audio only and their web site has "PC only". Linux-mega-un-friendly. sux.
And Anime. Heh. Digital Love is one of my favorite Daft Punk singles. You might of heard it on that Gap commercial with the robot. Oh, I like Gap Commercials too =)
Does anyone know if there will be any more videos in this series? It seems to leave off at the climax, and we don't get to see if the alien rock band gets saved or not! I love these videos, and I want more!
These have been there a while I thought, I remember seeing them on Toonami on night and proceeding to download them off the website, along with a few other videos from Gorillaz I saw that night. I'm having trouble finding a link to it on Cartoon Network, but I'm sure if you happen to use one of those *cough*filesharing*cough* programs you'll be able to find some decent MPEG versions of these videos. And, FYI, I like all their stuff, old and new, and the fact that they're doing anime videos is just icing on the cake.
d00d they make real player for linux what the fuck are you talking about?
I own both Homework and Discovery, and I love them both.
.005 seconds for someone to try to act l33t by saying the first album was better. Good for you, listen to that then.
Jesus, it took about
Also, I wager it'll take it less than a day for someone to turn this into an Open-Source/M$ argument somehow.
Shadow Skill is quite good also. Any other animé film/series that anyone thinks is particularly good?
Daft Punk is incredible. Their first album introduced their intelligent minimal underground sound. But Daft Punk has NOT changed much of their root sound. Those who think they suck now, please listen again to Homework: you hear Discovery everywhere.
Their second album sounds less like Homework because:
- they use vocals in Discovery
- they shorten their dance breaks and beats
- they use a vocoder
- One More Time got radio play as a pop hit
- most people think that Homework is only Around The World and Da Funk
- many people think that Discovery is One More Time
Please try out Homework again and invert your habits -- listen the whole album, including Rollin' and Scratchin', Burnin' and Pheonix, instead of Da Funk and Around The World.
Listen to some live sets (with DaftClub) from their 1997 tour, and you'll hear the same styles used in Discovery.
Anyone can tell me why do I have karma 0?
Yeah, you watched BEFORE you posted so that way you wouldn't have to watch the skipping low bandwith version.
Yay slashdot effect!
note to moderators: this is not offtopic, it is a troll.
Desperation is a stinky cologne
Thanx for Posting this, i like Daft Punk and got the CD (with the nifty web site credit card thingy too... ooohh awww) i never new about the last 2 videos thanx for posting this
The More Knowledge you have the Luckier you Get- J.R. Ewing
you absolutely need to hear the roger sanchez mix of revolution 909, if you haven't already done so. it is awesome.
complex
I agree 100%. I also liked the semi-newer "homework" videos and moreso the music. I also own the Homework "LP" :). It's kinda cool for this type of stuff to come up on /., IMHO.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
How dare you mention EverCrack in your post... utter ignorance. You are the weakest link... goodbye
am I the only one for whom this is old news?
no others would enjoy this. /. readers tend to be older then 10 years old, so no, there is no need to think that anyone here will enjoy your cartoons. Unless you were talking to the child molesters. they would like it.
see you later cmdr pedophile
If you people like electronic music, check out Soulseek (www.soulseek.org), it's a file-sharing system dedicated for sharing just that.
Nice videos, but the story at the end of the fourth one was rather inconclusive. Will there be animated videos for every song on the album, I wonder?
Are the animated figures supposed to be representative of the members of Daft Punk? Sort of like the security guards are Sly and Robbie in Superthruster? (Anyone know what animators did that video?)
Neat videos...I hope they make more of them so I can see what happens next. :)
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Still sounds like amateur crap....
Still looking for some capability playing their instruments.
Sigh.............X-Crap....fermenting!
If for some reason the site does not work well for you, you can find all four on Limewire as well - I think even a bit larger (though not much). Certainly less choppy.
Agreed, all their stuff sounds like music store newbies with rich parents buying their instruments for them.
Absolutely no talent wannabees with connections "somewhere" in the muzik biz.....
It is to laff!
One word...
SCHWEET!
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Like perhaps your ability to read the fine print? I don't care much about music. If I WANTED to look that song up, I would have. DUH!
taco, you have musical taste! i'm pleasantly amazed!
Worst track ever.
ps. i love house music
"Tension is the great integrity" -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Want a cookie?
That was actually Benjamin Diamond's outfit, Stardust, that was responsible for that. His solo stuff is pretty hot, as well.
Hmmm... At first I thought the connection was hosed because of the weird "skippy" vocals. Then I realized it was deliberate.
And do at least watch the first video all the way through. I decided to do so, and there actually is a story later on. Unfortunately, you have to listen to some god-awful music ("Celebrate good times, come on!" was apparently the spiritual guide for this band) to do so.
Animation = great, the guy still has a great sense of cinematography. But the music....
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Are you free tomorrow night? - Whew!
Heh, I couldn't tell if RealPlayer was shifting to a lower bandwidth/lower sampling rate, or if the "electronic musicians" were just screwing with the cutoff frequency of their lowpass filter
Anyways, I agree... cool animation, but I'm not a big Daft Punk fan. Although I do like "Da Funk" or whatever that song is called... repetitive vocals = bad.
We need more details about you jacking off....
What kind of panties were you wearing?
How robust was your ejaculate?
Many homos on this BBS want to know.
Me too, when can we schedule a "schedule"?!?!?!
Gawd, so many of us are SO GAY here on Slashdot!
Want to do a "Hoover' on ya babe...........
I saw these videos like 20 times a day on MTV Italia, too bad american mtv doesn't have the same taste....
I'd never heard of Daft Punk before they were mentioned here, a little over a month ago.
I really got hooked and purchased their two albums off MyMusic.com. They have the best prices on Daft Punk CDs I could find online. ($10 for Daft Punk's Discovery, while Amazon has it for $14!)
To anyone who's been trying to get 'em to disk (esp. thoes of us on dial-up connections who want to watch these in a real framerate): Head over here and grab the ASFRecorder.
Now, go here. Left click the Windows Media Player link for the video you want.
As the video window loads up, center click and hold, then right click while still center clicking, and view source on the doc (you have to do this to get around the "no right click" script).
Extract the path to the ASX file from the HTML.
Drop that into ASFRecorder, and download the damn things :).
Hi - "Discovery" is OK, and IMO is better than much more ballyhooed recent efforts by for example Radiohead, but like so much electronic dance music it can be fairly repetitious. (The filtered voice trick wears thin after a few songs.)
For a real undiscovered 2001 masterpiece, try to track down the album "Latvian Lovers" by the Aussie group Not From There. ("Frisco Disco" has been heard a bit in the States.) _That_ is a masterpiece, with each song sounding different with elaborate production and effects on each one. What a shame it is hardly sold in the U.S.
TWR, Torrance, CA
...if they are going to continue the story of the alien band that goes to earth with the rest of the songs on the CD. If they did that would make one hella phat movie. I'd like to get some angel dust and watch that shit! woowoo!
However it makes often sense to save stuff locally, not only because for archival of interesting material (e.g. the Knuth and Minsky lectures and other very interesting videos from technetcast come to mind), but also it plays smooth once it is on the hard disk. Even if you have only a low bandwidth connection, you can enjoy higher quality versions this way.
An amazing program is Streambox VCR. Too bad it seems not available. However you can get old betas on the net.
This only for Win32 and there are some patches available to make it work with the latest Real servers. Obviously Real tried to get rid of programs like Streambox VCR, which are known as stream rippers.
There are other solutions:
In this Telepolis article (in German, but you will make sense of the given links, no doubt or use Babelfish) they discuss several approaches.
I'll stick the video in the trashcan along with Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy Novels and all the other mind-numbing crap people seem to like. The musics OK - but the videos not upto ,say, the Gorillaz standard.
What is it with this Anime stuff? It's just a kiddies cartoon for goodness sake. Usually badly dubbed, cheap animation, with plain stupid character names.I watched Terrahawks and the like when I was younger - even then it was pretty poor.
Perhaps, to be fair, I've missed the point?
What is the point?
The Raft have been serving these beautiful vid's up in various res quicktime files, but just go for high res(480x360) as it rules :D If you goto
http://the-raft.com/sneakypeek/ (not a fake goatse.cx link for once on these boards) and search for Daft Punk on the various pages you should be able to get em all.
Me, I can't wait for the next one.
Is this video never shown on a music-television channel like MTV ? Here in Belgium (Europe) all four songs made it to the top 10 and because of that shown alot.
As far as I know, most radio- and television stations in the USA broadcast mostly rnb and rap, but I could be wrong. Here in Europe there's a musch broader diversity.
Phoenix?
The indie act that spawned Daft Punk, had a guitarist who left to form his own band. Branco started the indescribable "Phoenix" (well OK, West Coast American FM pop rock, power pop thrash, jazz rock country).
Check out their excellent album "United" for some amazingly fresh sounds and see how the influences that shaped DP can also be found (Funky Square Dance!). This album should be a mess, but its instead superb.
Regards,
Po
Daft Punk was *always* about being the thing that they parody. Read this review. He seems to get it. Also, "One More Time" is more subversive than anything else they've done. It's *fantastic*. Sure, it sounds silly at first. So listen again, watch the four videos, and read this review.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Repetitive vocals == Salvation!
I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
Without the crappy website :-)
rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/too na mi/real/daftpunk/video[1234].(hi|lo).rm
Or just use http://cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/reactor/daftpunk /media/
Man, I didn't know that the same director made StarBlazers! I remember watching that series before school back in the early 80s! On channel 25 in Boston... I can't believe you can buy the StarBlazers discs! I guess it makes sense since Anime is so popular, but I never made the connection.
It ALL makes sense now, I think. Daft Punk obviously connected with something from my childhood because after seeing the first two videos, which I thought were fantastic, I bought the album, which I think is good except that it loses something during the 2nd half...
That's a kick-ass marketing plan for a music group... find some cartoon a bunch of kids watched and use that as your next video.
Should we expect He-Man and the Masters of the Universe next?
-Russ
Me
I have Discovery on CD since it came out, it is really great (I like Superheroes best).. The album includes the "Daft Card" with an unique ID. If you enter it on the Daft Club, you can download and play (no streaming) about ten extra tracks in a Windows-only proprietary format (InterTrust's .saf).
The only bad thing about the Daft Club (besides that InterTrust is ugly) is that that's all. Does anyone know a good news site on Daft Punk? Something more than a discography? Live gigs? Bootlegs? Links to interviews? I think it's a shame that www.daftpunk.com just refers to the Daft Club.
Can't seem to get it working, tried with Netscape Navigator, Knoqueror and Opera, all have the correct mime type audio/x-pn-realaudio
and it just won't play, I think this is because of some kind of ActiveX imbedding, although this is a guess.
The URL i'm using is
http://cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/reactor/broad
HELP!!! Really would love to see this, thanks.
Anyway, their first album was far too repetitive for my tastes: they'd take one hook and just loop it to death.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Toonami.com had first 3 Daft Punk video's on there site for over a month before they showed them plus the fourth one on Toonami. You could have been wathching them as much as you want, but now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
-- Any comments seen here are not mine, but a mixture of alchohol and lack of sleep.
I'm a little surprised that none of the people who's mentioned the "Daft Card" things brought it up in this light, but it seems that Daft Punk is doing what a lot of people suggested in the past would be a good idea--not fighting MP3 trading by trying to stop it, but instead giving people an incentive to buy the CD by adding value to it. I might just have to go out and get the CD just to support that idea, if for no other reason.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Haha, you crazy Americans. Can't cope with a little dance/house music. Perhaps we should ask Daft Punk to remix them to sound like The Ataris or Weezer?
mogorific carpentry experiments
Q. What is the minimum specification required to run Daft Club? A. PC Intel Pentium 233MHz and above, 64Mb RAM, Windows 98 or 2000, soundcard and speakers, 25Mb of free disk space, MS IE 4.01 or above.
Uhm... nowhere in your post did you write about caring about music... DUH.. how can I read fine print is there is none?
The animation is fantastic, and looks good on slower machines. The music is awful(sp?). How about someone does this kind of animation for , say, Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery or Yes's Fragile. There is some really good new music coming out of Italy (DFA or Deus Ex Machina)that might be appropriate.
BTW, L.C.D. is Lowest Common Denominator
"The Brady Bunch is back...working homicide"
why do website designers try to hide the html content behind layer upon layer of javascript and style sheets ?
Oh well, there's always Napster, right?
from within the Daft Card site: link
The software used to run the Daft Club are
unfortunately not yet supported by Mac
technology. We hope that the Apple OS will
soon be compatible with this new technology.
For your information, we have been told
that the new Daft Punk track "Ouverture"
is already available as a MP3 file on many
popular sharing file sites, such as
Napster and Macster, accessible with a Mac.
Best regards,
The Daft Club team
I think it's extremely significant that a band
like Daft Punk is reccomending and even
depending on "illegal" file sharing networks
to promote their music.
RIAA - "You hear the howling of CwnAnnwn."
First off, Daft Punk in any form rules! MTV America really sucks. Alien Ant Farm blows, Train is pointless and boring yuppie rock, Dave Matthew's band is crap. The list can go on and on, but you know what... it doesn't matter. Those are just opinions. (And we all know what opinions are like...)
If I listed all the music I thought was the best, half the people here would jump down my throat telling me it sucks. So take your opinions and keep them to yourselves. If you don't like something, don't listen to it. Just like I don't listen to: Eminem, Kid Rock, Puff Daddy, Alien Ant Farm, or anything that doesn't make good use of electronics. etc... (ad nauseum)
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
thinking you were the real 'CmdrTaco on' ??
huh?
In 1997 their live act kicked some serious ass.
These guys know how to work a crowd, unlike the chemical brothers who followed them and seemed to play just playing a DAT and jumping around.
Out of fifteen years of weekly concerts Daft Punk were amongst the best five gigs I have ever been too.
Well I admit the fine print was VERY small. But nowhere in my oringal post did I say I had been LOOKING for the author(s) of that song. I only indicated that at some point I had wondered. Wondering is not the same as wanting. Terribly sorry for the confusion.
I wasn't going to reply to this. But you made some valid points. First, I'm not all that young, and neither of my friends. Most of us in the Santa Clara Valley of California grew up during the hayday of the BBS. BEFORE the Internet. We were geeky without /., without the internet. And frankly, the mid 80's and early 90's was a good time for anime..Things in that genre sort of died for a while.
And yes, I realize many young people are probably using older geeks in the way you describe. However, I do not think that THAT has any bearing on why you belive that anime isn't geeky. No offense meant, of course.
lets let our karma counts decide who the nimrod is
Well, speaking for myself, I grew up watching Anime (Grandizer was my favourite) and French cartoons and this genre of music overlapping well done anime seems to "allow the suspension of disbelief" quite well. In others, the music videos do their jobs. Hmmmm...I'm kinda posting this message a little too late...ah well.
please show me another 'Score -1' post by replying to this.
Hah. I think that review is parody. Shameless overanalysis of market-driven pop.
Hands in my pocket