![]() “That got put on the backburner for Tron, and they weren’t able to get back into the studio until 2009. “In early 2008, just after the last show of the tour,” Daft Punk started recording parts of ,” Hahn confirms today. “The good thing is that they are making music at the moment… they are slow, you know… They are taking their time, and they have a right.” By that time, Daft Punk had in fact been working on the recordings that would become Random Access Memories off and on for nearly five months in addition to the Paris sessions, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo would work in some of the world’s most legendary recording studios, like Electric Ladyland in New York and Los Angeles’ Henson Recording Studios (formerly the famed recording home for A&M Records) going back even farther, an embryonic version of “Contact” was played by Bangalter during 2002 DJ set. “The boys are in a studio in Paris at the moment,” Winter told Australian website In The Mix. “It was a rare event - we thought, ‘Okay, maybe we can do something unique and elevated with a great artist like Kanye.’”Ī spring 2008 interview with former Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter provided the first notification that Daft Punk had begun working on a new studio album. ![]() “Daft Punk’s live show had gotten the attention of the Grammy producers,” current Daft Punk manager/Daft Arts partner Paul Hahn says. In full robot regalia, Daft Punk joined Kanye West onstage at the 50th Grammy Awards for a live version of his Daft Punk-sampling hit “Stronger.” It marked the first time Daft Punk had performed live on television. We live to play with clichés and to destroy or change the parameters.” Combining them produces something different and surreal, where you can’t really recall where you’ve seen this combination before. “We like to play with old memories and different ideas and influences. “The development of a subculture of uncontrolled gatherings is interesting to us,” Bangalter said. “We are free of all our record contracts, so any direction is possible.” The seeds for what would become Random Access Memories’ marketing strategy seemed already planted in the duo’s minds. “Right now we are making music in Paris,” de Homem-Christo told Stop Smiling magazine. ![]() Biz has painstakingly crafted the following timeline/oral history outlining how, step by step, key players - including Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Columbia chairman/CEO Rob Stringer, Columbia senior VP of marketing Scott Greer, band manager Paul Hahn, and publicist and Biz3 owner Kathryn Frazier - worked together on this groundbreaking campaign that has transformed Daft Punk’s fourth studio LP into 2013’s most undeniable pop-culture moment thus far.ĭaft Punk themselves first tantalize that a new release is on the horizon in a 2008 interview. With the album finally being released this Tuesday, May 21. ![]()
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