Timed to perfection, Daft Punk's second live album landed exactly ten years after the first, and provides a fitting complement to Alive 1997, easily the best live non-DJ electronica record ever released. While the original featured only a handful of tracks (but found them transformed and tweaked ad infinitum), Alive 2007 is packed with productions, most of them short and many of them getting a big crowd response (all recorded at one show in Paris in June of 2007). As on their first two classic full-lengths, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo display excellent crowd control, pacing the record well, spacing the hits, and building the mood like the good crowd-pleasers they are. (The visuals included in the regular and deluxe editions reveal quite the stage show as well.) It has the feel of a greatest-hits-live concert, but energized by Daft Punk's talents at weaving songs in and out of each other. Even songs from the comparatively desultory Human After All sound rejuvenated in context, with "Robot Rock" getting the show off to a rousing start. It may not be better or stronger than the original Alive 1997, but it's definitely harder and faster.
!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/2127177398_386b83c797.jpg?v=0!Let this serve as a warning, gentle reader. A record exec acquaintance passed me a copy of Daft Punk's previous album _Human After All_ about three months before its official release. When friends visited the flat I would casually slip on the CD. I imagined they would exclaim “Wow, where did you get that?!”. To which I would re
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!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/2127177398_386b83c797.jpg?v=0!Let this serve as a warning, gentle reader. A record exec acquaintance passed me a copy of Daft Punk's previous album _Human After All_ about three months before its official release. When friends visited the flat I would casually slip on the CD. I imagined they would exclaim “Wow, where did you get that?!”. To which I would re
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A question for today? How can live electronica blow my mind so HARD? How could the anti-heroes in Daft Punk turn club music into a full blown concert experience??? Ask anyone who saw them at Coachella last year....they owned the place.Anyway today I leave you Friday partyers with a cut from Daft Punk's latest live disc _Alive 2007_, "Around The World > Harder Better Faster Stronger"and at Coa...
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Things have been a little quiet since the hype died down about Daft Punk's "Alive 2007" album released last year. While the joy of the live recording kept me going for a long time, I've slowly relinquished my obsession. I didn't really realize how much I missed the distinctive Daft beat until I came upon this simple, yet nostalgic gem from 1998 done by Stardust (Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe & B...
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