In 2008, after finishing their Alive 2006/2007 tour, Daft Punk began working on new material in Paris, recording demos for approximately six months. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked Random Access Memories number 295 on their list of the ' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time'. 'Get Lucky' also won the awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The album appeared on several year-end lists, and won in several categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Dance/Electronica Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Its lead single, ' Get Lucky', topped the charts in more than 30 countries and became one of the best-selling digital singles of all time. It also topped the charts in twenty other countries. Random Access Memories is the only Daft Punk album to top the US Billboard 200, and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

It combines disco, progressive rock and pop, with collaborations with Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear, Julian Casablancas, Todd Edwards, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Nathan East and Pharrell Williams. It is their final album before their disbandment in 2021.įollowing the minimal production of their previous album, Human After All (2005), Daft Punk recruited session musicians to perform live instrumentation and limited the use of electronic instruments to drum machines, a custom-built modular synthesizer and vintage vocoders. Recording sessions took place from 2008 to 2012 at Henson, Conway and Capitol Studios in California, Electric Lady Studios in New York City, and Gang Recording Studio in Paris, France. This theme is reflected in the album's packaging, as well as its promotional campaign, which included billboards, television advertisements and a web series. It pays tribute to late 1970s and early 1980s American music, particularly from Los Angeles. Visit podcastchoices.Random Access Memories is the fourth and final studio album by the French electronic duo Daft Punk, released on through Columbia Records. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)ĭaft Punk, Paul Williams - Touch (feat. Pharrell Williams)ĭaft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. The result was a record that helped usher in a retro disco-funk revival across pop music and generated a smash hit in 'Get Lucky.' The band had perhaps crafted their magnum opus-but did it also represent the conclusion of their epic narrative of the battle between human and machine?ĭaft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance (feat. The duo spent over a million dollars, held five years of studio sessions, and painstakingly crafted each track. The making of RAM followed the blueprint of classic albums from what Daft Punk called 'the golden age' of recording-Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Pink Floyd.

RAM features almost no samples or programmed digital instruments, instead leaning into extensive collaborations with legendary studio musicians, iconic producers like Nile Rodgers, and modern mavens such as Pharrell. In the song 'Touch' from Daft Punk's final studio album, 2013's Random Access Memories, featured artist Paul Williams sings a line that augured the end of an impressive collaboration: 'I need something more.' With RAM, Daft Punk pulled out all the stops, going the opposite direction of their previous albums, to 'give life back to music' and bestow hearts and souls upon their robotic doppelgängers.

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