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Matsumoto/Daft Punk Videos Online
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.
Wasn't Star Blazers suppose to be on Toonami? Anyway, anime seems like Daft's style, and it is very good.
forget it.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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!
hahahaha
you rock.
i've been listening to 2112 all day!
(ps im joking)
"Tension is the great integrity" -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
look, you don't have to like it, but you don't have to lie about having something to do. Does bitching about the content here qualify as something better to do?
there's more than one way to do me.
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.
I saw these videos like 20 times a day on MTV Italia, too bad american mtv doesn't have the same taste....
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 :).
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.
I've got realplayer installed, but the videos work neither in mozilla or netscape for me.
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
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?
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
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