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.

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'I like their old stuff better than their new stuf

[bonoboy]

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.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[Dr. Awktagon]

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.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[jooniqzb1tch]

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.

contradiction

[Jeff Probst]

The album is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite CDs

i seem to recall Taco saying that he would not purchase another CD due to all the bad things the music industry was doing.

Time to come clean Taco: did you purchase this CD from Amazon?

Re:contradiction

[Saint Nobody]

actually, he said he got it at Cheap CDs in a previous post. the sad thing is that i remembered that.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[outerspace]

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.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[tshak]

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.

Way to go, Slashdot

[Robotech_Master]

Fortunately, I'm awake now, and so can watch the videos while they still stream at actual video rates. I pity all the folks who wake up tomorrow and have to watch them at about two frames per second. Bandwidth suck. Whee! :)

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. :)

Re:Way to go, Slashdot

[Saeger]

I pity all the folks who wake up tomorrow and have to watch them at about two frames per second. Bandwidth suck. Whee! :)

I pity all the folks who are unaware of the wonders that 2000 edonkey's can provide when it comes to large media files. :)

All four vids have been available in standard mpeg, and DivX, for quite a while... and I see that only the first three vids are available on Toonami's site, and in Crap-Quality.

The Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger vid was interesting: The band members are manufactured "Ghost-in-the-shell-style", then get their memory scanned in. The End.

Odd music, that. Especially on Broadband.

[mbourgon]

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....

Re:Odd music, that. Especially on Broadband.

[Dahan]

Hmmm... At first I thought the connection was hosed because of the weird "skippy" vocals. Then I realized it was deliberate.

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.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[MisterPo]

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

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[Elwood P Dowd]

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.

Re:Viewing Daft Punk Realaudio under Linux

[dazdaz]

This works

rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/too na mi/real/daftpunk/video1.hi.rm
rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/too na mi/real/daftpunk/video2.hi.rm
rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/too na mi/real/daftpunk/video3.hi.rm
rtsp://demand2.stream.aol.com/demand/cartoon/too na mi/real/daftpunk/video4.hi.rm

I find the quality terrible under Linux
and a web browser keeps on popping up.

Why is Realplayer so blocky, it's terrible
under Linux.

I would still like to know why it won't play straight off under Linux.

regards,
dazdaz

They Have been online for a while before this

[geekguy]

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.

Fighting MP3 trading the right way

[Robotech_Master]

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.