The Daft Club http://www.thedaftclub.com The number 1 fansite for the french house band Daft Punk, featuring news, music, discussion and more. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:43:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New look for Daft Punk iTunes store http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DaftPunkNews-TheDaftClub/~3/xm4ArVryv7M/ http://www.thedaftclub.com/2012/02/24/new-look-for-daft-punk-itunes-store/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:54:43 +0000 Admin http://www.thedaftclub.com/?p=1646 The Daft Club forum member Belacmu spotted that the iTunes music store for Daft Punk has been updated with a new look:

Daft Punk iTunes Store

Could this be a new publicity photo? A sign of things to come?

Discuss the changes on The Daft Club Forum

Visit the page on iTunes:

iTunes US | iTunes UK | iTunes France | iTunes Canada

 

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The King's Speech Sountrack

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack for The King’s Speech beat Daft Punk and others to the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.

Desplat had two chances to win this Grammy with his soundtrack for Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 also nominated.

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

Photek’s remix of Daft Punk’s End of Line also lost the Grammy for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, which was taken by Skillrex for his remix of Benny Benassi’s Cinema.

Discuss the Grammy Awards on The Daft Club Forum

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Daft Punk walk the blue carpet at the Tron: Legacy premiere

The 54th Grammy awards ceremony is this Sunday 12 February at 8pm EST (1am GMT).  LL cool J, who has won 2 Grammy’s himself, will be hosting the evening.

This year marks the 5th Grammy Awards where Daft Punk have been nominated, having recieved 7 nominations in previous ceromonies and taking home 2 awards in 2009.

Daft Punk have been nominated for 2 Grammy’s this year:

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

Daft Punk’s 2011 soundtrack to Tron: Legacy is nominated in this category.

  • Tron: Legacy - Daft Punk
  • Black Swan - Clint Mansell
  • Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Alexandre Desplat
  • The King’s Speech - Alexandre Desplat
  • The Shrine - Ryan Shore

 

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

End of Line (Photek Remix) taken from Tron Legacy: Reconfigured remix album is up for best remixed recording, non-classical.

  • End Of Line (Photek Remix) – Photek (Daft Punk)
  • Cinema (Skrillex Remix) – Sonny Moore (Benny Benassi)
  • Collide (Afrojack Remix) – Afrojack (Leona Lewis)
  • Only Girl (In The World)  (Rosabel Club Mix)  -  Abel Aguilera & Ralphi Rosario (Rihanna)
  • Rope (Deadmau5 Mix) – Deadmau5 (Foo Fighters)

 Daft Punk

Daft Punk’s previous Grammy Nominations

1998

Best Dance Recording: “Da Funk”

1999

Best Dance Recording: ”Around the World”

2002

Best Dance Recording: ”One More Time”

Best Pop Instrumental Performance: ”Short Circuit”

2006

Best Electronic/Dance Album:  Human After All

2009

Winners: Best Dance Recording: ”Harder Better Faster Stronger (Alive 2007)”

Winners: Best Electronic/Dance Album: Alive 2007

2012

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Tron: Legacy

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: End Of Line (Photek Remix) (Tron Legacy: Reconfigured)

Discuss the Grammy’s on The Daft Club Forum

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If he’s as excited as we are about recent album developments he’ll have a lot to celebrate.

Guy Man and Thomas pointing at Nile Rodgers

Inthemix.com caught up with funk/disco legend Nile Rodgers who revealed this week that he was meeting Daft Punk to work on Album #4.

“We were just jamming at my house… They came over to my today around breakfast time and it’s now evening I basically had to almost kick them out.”

Read the full conversation on Inthemix.com

Discuss in our forum:  Daft Punk to collaborate with Nile Rodgers on their 4th studio album

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers to collaborate with Daft Punk on their next album

That’s what Nile Rodgers posted on his website earlier today. The music producer has commented that he is meeting with the duo today to discuss a collaboration – could this mean a more funky edge to their 4th studio album?

We are all on standby for news following their discussion in New York and will bring you updates as soon as we have them!

From Nile Rodgers official blog:

Today I’m going to spend some time with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo better known as Daft Punk. We’ve briefly met before when they were doing some sort of listening party in NYC back in the 90′s. The scene was chaotic and we didn’t really have a chance to have an artistic connection, except they did tell me that they were sorry about my former partner Bernard Edward’s death. And they dug CHIC. The feeling is mutual.I dig Daft Punk. When I first heard “Da Funk” I thought it was one of the grooviest records I’d heard in a long time. The song “One More Time” came out when I was on a trip to Paris and I visited Virgin records.

I almost hooked up with the guys then but I don’t remember what went wrong. “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” I simply thought was one of the coolest records of the year when I heard it.

After all these years of almost hooking up, finally Daft Punk Is Hanging at My House.

Discuss in our forum:  Daft Punk to collaborate with Nile Rodgers on their 4th studio album

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No. Nor can we, but this website has us intrigued.

Spring Awakening Music Festival

Don’t get your hopes up too much. The “Example Article” at the bottom makes it clear that this is just a test page with dummy latin text.  The designer may have just used a Daft Punk photo as a place-holder before being told the real line-up.

If any Daft Punk tour or live dates get confirmed, you’ll read about it here on The Daft Club.

Discuss this rumour on The Daft Club forum

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Which Daft Punk song was used in this commercial?

Here at the Daft Club we see so many people getting to know Daft Punk, and discovering tons of songs they already knew, but didn’t know that Daft Punk released them. So we’ve put together a handy list compiling the top 10 songs that that people don’t realise are by Daft Punk.

Put yourself to the test, see how many of these songs you knew were by Daft Punk before you visited the Daft Club.

10 songs you didn’t realise were by Daft Punk

 

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By now most people have heard of Daft Punk, the helmet wearing dance duo from France… And almost everyone has heard at least one of their songs – even if they don’t know it! Here at the Daft Club we see so many people getting to know the band better, and discovering tons of songs they already knew, but didn’t know that Daft Punk released them. So we’ve put together a handy list compiling the top 10 songs that that people don’t realise are by Daft Punk.

1. Harder Better Faster Stronger

A catchy, glitchy, robotic classic. Originally released on the album Discovery this song was made available as a single in 2001. Although it was a revival in later years that makes this the number 1 song in our list, with a little help from Kanye West. Harder Better Faster Stronger was sampled in his 2007 song ‘Stronger’. Daft Punk fully supported his work and even appeared on stage during a performace during the 2008 Grammy’s. The song also lends itself to one of the most popular viral video’s on YouTube, Daft Hands.


2. Around the World

You know that song that just goes “Around the world, around the wooorld…” for ages, and then goes around your head all day long – yep, that’s them too. Released on their debut album, Homework in 1997. The official music video, produced by Michel Gondry, also features an iconic dance routine. LCD Soundsystem’s 2005 song ‘Daft Punk is Playing at My House’ parodies many of the elements in it’s own music video.


3. One More Time

The first single to be released from Discovery, One More Time was one of the first songs to bring Daft Punk to a mainstream audience. Chart success cemented this songs place in our list as one that is now, over ten years after it’s initial release, often overlooked.


4. Digital Love

Remembered for it’s auto-tuned vocals, super-synth guitar solo and trumpet fanfares this is a bright and cheerful song that is full of catchy hooks that everyone knows the words to. The song is also featured in a now infamous commercial for GAP, which features actress Juliette Lewis and the fully suited robot duo dancing.


5. Technologic

The one with the creepy video…? Featured on the iPod ad…? A bit like Harder Better Faster Stronger, but with more words to remember… That’s the one – it’s called Technologic and it’s by Daft Punk!


6.Aerodynamic

If you’ve ever watched one of those ‘Top 100′ countdown shows on T.V. you’ll be familiar with this track, but maybe only half of it. With two distinct halves (one featuring a vibrant guitar solo, and the other a relaxing and chilled mood setter) there’s nothing that can’t be accompanied by this song. Originally featured on Discovery a remix version, which mixes One More Time and Aerodynamic, was released on the Daft Club album, and is often used at live performances.


7. Robot Rock

Yet another extremely infectous track. The first single to be released from the Human After All album it didn’t do too well in the charts… But being the first new Daft Punk single in years it certainly received a lot of attention. And who could forget the vision of two shiny robots playing in a rock band!


8. Derezzed

This is really just an excuse to mention the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. In a break from their usual style Daft Punk scored the whole thing. So if you sat through the film thinking you could hear some familiarities in the music, that’s why. Derezzed was released as a single, and the music video featured a cameo from Daft Punk playing a ‘Derezzed’ arcade game.


9. Da Funk

Another iconic music video coming up. Who remembers Charles the dog? This character featured in 2 music videos from the Homework album. The first was in the Da Funk video, and the second was for the song Fresh, which was never officially released as a single, but Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo decided that they would like to cheer up fans who felt sorry for him after his first on-screen appearence.


10. Music Sounds Better With You

Ok, so it’s not strictly released by Daft Punk, but Thomas Bangalter was part of the trio that formed this one hit wonder. He teamed up with fellow artists Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond to release a song that is still considered to be one of the greatest house songs of all time. Sadly this was the only song Stardust ever released.


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According to a source of Billboard, “Daft Punk was once again given a huge offer to perform but declined”

 

Did I hear Daft Punk might be at Coachella in 2013?

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Sorry for any disruption; we’ll be trying to get the forum back as soon as we can.

We’re back! Yey!

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