This is my favorite edition of Sample Wednesday so far. I think most of you will be as shocked as I was to hear some of these tracks. I couldn't have put this together without inspiration from the girl Elizabeth- she put it well: as you hear these tracks you'll either decide Daft Punk isn't as genius as you thought they were or that they're twice as amazing. I just know that for any Daft Punk fan out there- these tracks are essential. In other words, don't skip this one.
Update Nov. 11th, 2007: Most of the links in this post are temporarily down. They should be back very soon.
Breakwater - "Release The Beast"
used in "Robot Rock"
Edwin Birdsong -"Cola Bottle Baby"
used in "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
The Imperials - "Can You Imagine"
used in "Crescendolls"
Eddie Johns - "More Spell On You"
used in "One More Time"
George Duke - "I Love You More"
used in "Digital Love"
Oliver Cheatham - "Get Down Saturday Night"
used in "Voyager"
Tata Vega - "Get It Up For Love"
used in "Da Funk" (Ten Minutes of Funk Mix)
Jerry Goldsmith - "The Rec Room"
used in "Around The World"
Karen Young - "Hot Shot"
used in "Indo Silver Club"
Barry Manilow - "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed"
used in "Superheroes"
Sister Sledge - "Il Macquillage Lady"
used in "Aerodynamic"
ELO - "Evil Woman"
used in "Face to Face"
Cerrone - "Supernature" (Original 14min Mix)
used in "Verdis Quo"
PS. if you haven't seen it already- watch the preview for Daft Punk's upcoming feature film: Electroma
holy shit. i cannot beliive my ears.
ReplyDeleteawesome. awesome. awesome.
ReplyDeleteI love this blog with all my cock.
i was just thinking - honest - the other day how cool it would be to uncover some of the samples behind genres other than hip hop... and you beat me to the suggestion. as the creepy guy above said: awesome.
ReplyDelete"awesome. awesome. awesome.
ReplyDeleteI love this blog with all my cock. "
Haldan - flattered, or utterly petrified?
My vote: Twice as amazing.
ReplyDelete(Let's just hope his cock is really small.)
That is really quite insane. I think I might listen to these tunes for a while.
ReplyDeleteso so cool
ReplyDeleteawesome!
ReplyDeleteSo of course I hit "Cola Bottle Baby" first, since I love "Harder Better Faster Stronger"... and there's no santa.
ReplyDeletelinks down for anyone else??
ReplyDelete/golfclap
ReplyDeleteBest ever.
oh, all these sample posts you make just piss me off so badly! lol you've gotten me to hate all these artists for lack of creativity honestly. I am a fledgling music producer and composer and I hear the tracks they rip on and just... Cannot help but feel sorry for them for not having a creative bone in their bodies. I used to adore Daft Punk. Those days have left for me.
ReplyDeleteDavid, you're an idiot. Is Just Blaze any less of a genius 'cause he samples? Is Kanye West? Rick Rubin?
ReplyDeleteThere is an incredible art to digging, finding great samples, and then actually doing something amazing with them. Arguably it's as hard as writing the original - or at least on parrallel.
Trust me: I've played around with sampling and everything I've done has SUCKED. It's really hard.
Daft Punk: Still kings. Twice as amazing.
Great post. This is one of the best two blogs out there.
ReplyDeleteSUPERB.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear these and track back to the Daft Punk songs.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Great blog!
Way to go! This is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteyou makin me fiend for music...
ReplyDeleteeverything you put up here is a go.
SCANDALOUS!
ReplyDeletethis is the best post ever!
ReplyDeletethanks!!!
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Well, I'm now officially disappointed. I'm a big fan of the Daft, and encountering this post made me run for the albums to do some comparisons. Human After All has only 2 lines of text in the cd booklet. The second one says "all guitars by Daft Punk."
ReplyDeleteI guess not!
I can't beleive I've been singing along to Barry Manilow! Daft Punk are true musical pimps.
ReplyDeletejesus christ!
ReplyDeletehow did they sample for "around the world?"
i don't hear it?
anyone??
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wow didn't know they'd sampled ELO
ReplyDeletem.e. grant--i know that for some tracks, they actually don't sample the original recording, but instead re-record the melodies themselves.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone have more info on this?
also, haldan, are all of these sampled from the original, or could some of them have been re-recorded as well?
Great, great post.
ReplyDeletedaft punk: as amazing as they were before you knew they sampled things.
ReplyDeletegood post tho
i feel like i found out that i'm adopted and met my real parents. i still love the parents i grew up with but i just feel kind of ripped off by them.
ReplyDeletethats what i came up with lol.
Daft Punk still rock! it would have been the biggest mish to find all those samples and use them as well as they have.
It's not Daft Punk but 1/2 of, Bangalter and Braxe flipped Chaka Khan and made this loop a classic. Don't hate those french dudes are genius. Click "pauldevro" above to hear the sample.
ReplyDeletehaldan this is the most thorough record of daft punk's sampling. amazing. love you big times xxx.
ReplyDeletec'mon you have to be able to have a longer list
ReplyDeleteI hope we can see a sample wednesday featuring basement jax soon. gary numan, what?
ReplyDeleteThis is no news. Six years ago these complitations came out (I think there are four volumes by now). I'm sure Daft Punk cleared these samples but it is cheap that they don't recognise these samples (or thank the various artists). They are just in it for the money.
ReplyDeletePossibly the best post yet on this site, which ain't no small feat, Pete. Thanks for this.
ReplyDeletehow come no one is shitting bricks over
ReplyDeleteBreakwater - "Release The Beast"
they barely changed it for robot rock I used to love that song now its just like they changed the lyrics
that song is the basis for Human After all
Daft Punk better fucking step it up with the next album.
truly stunned - are Daft Punk caughing up royalties for all this???
ReplyDeleteAnonymous--it's no news but it is news. clearly most people hadn't heard some of these tracks, so it's apparently news to them. and they *did* list at least some samples in the liner notes of Discovery. see the wikipedia entry for a (partial?) list of tracks they acknowledge in the liner notes. weird that they only list 4 though.
ReplyDeletePaulDevro--nice. spreading the Stardust love. was just writing about how i keep hearing the seminal Bangalter & Braxe track out these days..
elizabeth- i think that on tracks like "digital love" daft punk probably rerecorded some elements of the sample to work for their purposes. But for most tracks, they are most likely using the original source material.
ReplyDeletepaul - thanks for posting that! I was considering including that song- but then i figured I would have to include other Bangalter samples, and it would get out of control.
mr. this is no news- i looked thru those 'sampled' discs, and I only see Cola Bottle Baby and the Digital Love sample... am I missing something?
thanks for the love everybody, I'm glad there are such strong feelings about these tracks.
amazing! Thanks Palmsout! even more brilliant than usual.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see a Fatboy Slim Sample Wednesday??
Well quite a few of these songs are definetly known to be samples since they're listed in the linear notes of Daft punk's albums as samples. This explains songs such as "Robot Rock", "Harder Better Faster Stronger", "Crescendolls", "Digital Love", "Superheroes", and "Indo Silver Club". It has been shown on various pages that you can cut up the intro of "More Spell On You" to get the main riff of "One More Time". But a few of these other tracks I'm a bit more skeptical of, such the use of ELO's Evil Woman in Face to Face and Jerry Goldsmith's "The Rec Room" cause I really don't hear them at all and the only places that I've seen them mentioned as samples is a few websites.
ReplyDeletewhat part of evil woman is sampled in face to face?? i can't figure it out.
ReplyDeletewhy are you shocked? if you'll go trought the records credits these samples are ALL creditaded...
ReplyDeleteWhat is a Daft Punk?
ReplyDelete'Give it up for Love' has been used by Armand Van Helden as well. Cant remmeber the track but it was released on Henry St. Records back in 96 or so.
ReplyDeleteOn a mix CD I did about a year ago I chopped "I Put a Spell On You" the same way as it was used by Daft. Peep it...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.zshare.net/audio/47-u-tern-body-work-eddie-johns-i-put-a-spell-on-you-mp3.html
melissa robot - There was very small guitar parts chopped up for "Face To Face" take another listen!
... and DAFT HATERS PLEASE FALL BACK!
"I used to like this song till........not having a creative bone in their bodies.......I'm now officially disappointed"
When you can transform an old forgotten record into PURE GOLD call me okay! Fuckin' ROCKISTS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockism
Haldan, you rule!
ReplyDeletepeace
Wow!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that. That's amazing.
I really don't know what to think.
as hard as writing the original? get the fuck out of here... as many of these jams are just riffs, and not really that 'hard' it's certainly harder to play bass and drums and keys than to just sample. the downfall of this bullshit music, imo.
ReplyDeleteoh my god, you mean that daft punk didnt write those songs... you are kidding, whats next? please dont tell me that she wants revenge ripped off joy division and bauhaus cos ill really be disillusioned then about music.
ReplyDeletejesus christ, lets just hope the the word electronica wasn't totally made up after the dust brothers changed their name to the chemical brothers because if i find that out i might have to go back to listening to dj sneak.
ps. there are a lot more records guy and thomas sampled than the handful you listed.
I don't see how disillusionment leads to "hate" here. I'm trying to understand how so much of the songs go without a credit to the originators. To my ears, Robot Rock IS Release the Beast. I don't see how it would be worth DP's while to "rerecord" it themselves. Being that the last album came after a 4 year wait, the idea that it takes that long to build songs around the right samples is pretty odd.
ReplyDeleteExcellent! I've been looking around for these tracks for a while..
ReplyDeleteThere is another song that I know of as well. In Daft Punk's track "High Fidelity" from their Homework album, they use a heap of spliced up samples from Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are".
It takes a keen ear, but it's definitely there.
In response to the anonymous poster above "drop the bass".. It is true that it's easily 20,000 times easier to sample than it is to pick up a real instrument. But then at the same time, any Tom, Dick, Harry, or Marianne can pick up an instrument or grab a sample and make noise. It still takes some skill to make that noise sound good.
In the case of sampling, it's usually harder to make it sound better. The mixer(s) go through a lot of playing around with additional hooks, lines, and sinkers to see which one makes the best catch.
When you only ever DOWNLOAD mp3's you'd never read the liner notes to know that all of these amazing disco tracks that Thomas and Guy-Manuel have resuscitated and brought back larger than their original life are fully acknowledged and thanked in the liner notes.
ReplyDeleteWhat I really want to know is, how such songs with great talent became buried by the junk we are fed over the airwaves?
ReplyDeleteWas this really a secret? Daft Punk is by far the most influential pop group of the 90s. The sampler is the back bone of modern music. Easily as important as the guitar or the syntheziser.
ReplyDeleteGREAT TRACKS. BUT DAFT'S TOO. TRY TO FIND A GOOD DISCO SAMPLE, AND MAKE IT A HIT, LIKE THEY DO. AND CALL ME AFTER.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the music !!!!!
there is NO WAY that the jerry goldsmith is used in around the world.all the others are correct but NOT that one.i swear.the ELO sample is a short guitarr "chacka chacka"sound thats it.but its in there.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are silly- the Jerry Goldsmith is easy! they chop up the intro and uses the hits.
ReplyDeleteYes, there are more daft samples, I never claimed to have posted them all. Yes, they mention most of these tracks in the liner notes to their albums. Yes, all of these tracks are actually used in the songs mentioned. Yes, I own all the Daft Punk albums.
There are no liner notes for Human After All.
ReplyDeleteOMG!!! It does taint the french Duo although credit to them for taking something and making it better.
ReplyDeleteThey are still talented as hell for their slant on all their samples. The Hip Hop community do it so the Disco Kids can too...amazing
thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. this is no taint to anything daft punk have done. they have an amazing sound and can control and manipulate sounds incredibly. their music speaks for itself.
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REALLY SHOCKING....
ReplyDeleteROBOT ROCK IS JUST THE SAME .... !!!
ELO - Evil Women sampled on Face to Face?
ReplyDeleteDosent sound like that, aint even close.
I just posted a visual aid to the DP sample thing over here at Music Thing...
ReplyDeleteFeh. Yes, they're sampling gods, but for shits sake people, MAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING BEATS. Its not difficult.
ReplyDeleteSo, who does the sampled (female) vocal in Face to Face? That's a huge part of the song. I've never seen this credited anywhere. The ELO guitar riff is a very small part of the song.
ReplyDeleteMy friends used to spend entire nights discussing which softwares plugins and instruments Daft Punk used... and I always said they were wasting their time... now you've proved me right!! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteWTF
ReplyDeletethats nuts. Never mind sampling snippets of a track.....
now try to find where the drums in the Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds are from
ReplyDeleteI'm the 'this is no news' guy who posted a week or so ago. You're right about those compilations Haldan, they only hold a couple of their songs but here is the blog where I first found out about this (in 2005). I'm not trying to undermine your effort here; it's just that I'm surprised this is making a come back in the news and that people are shocked to learn that these guys use samples (like half the other dance acts on the planet).
ReplyDeleteMr. no news - so yeah, like I said- I'm not the first one to talk about this- but once again, have you ever found a source (besides the old daftclub, which is most likely the inspiration for that blog you linked) that provided readers a chance to actually hear all these tracks? I mean, anyone who ever glanced at the liner notes for discovery could know that daft punk sampled- but whats important here, is HOW they sampled. This is not a post about the ethics of sampling- as you might realize from the fact that we have a sample feature- we support sampling!
ReplyDeletewhat shocked me was not that they sampled, i knew this. But i wasnt aware of how much 4 bar looping they did. I knew the George Duke track, but I had never actually heard the edwin birdsong, and that shocked me. There's nothing new under the sun, but there is such a thing as dead links.
Welcome to house music 101, glad you could stop by and visit. Goodbye.
ReplyDeleteHaldan - Alex from Automato here. THIS IS AMAZING PAGE! YES!
ReplyDeletee-ve-ry-bo-dy samples. also your favorite dj's and your smartest indie dance. even if it's only the smallest sample of a high end.
ReplyDeletei believe daft punk anticipate on the fact that they sample, that seems rather obvious to me, since they do a lot of 4-bar loop copy shit etc. it's not like you can't hear that.
sure daft punk took a bunch of samples from songs dor theil album "discovery" but they made amazing songs with them, and no one can say that daft punk's Interstella 5555 isn't origonal.
ReplyDeleteNice to know the original sources for the Daft Punk tunes. Always cool to know how they worked the samples and what parts sampled. I wouldnt be that impressed or shocked, sample usaged has long beards and is a very important part of the music history. From more comercial approaches like Daft Punk to more underground productions like Lindstrom, all use samples...the creativity lies in what you do with them, more know ones, or completely obscure one's.
ReplyDeleteAt first, I was like "Wow, they weren't creative on Robot Rock at all, and Robot Rock is a personal anthem of mine. But then, as I continued to listen to the samples like the one from Crescendolls, I just became more and more impressed with Daft. I love them and now I can see they are amazing at sampling and have a really good ear for constructing awesome songs
ReplyDeleteYeah this is all nice but they can actually clear the samples!!!!! Cause they are huge mainstream guys. Get a small artist to do that!!! No way possible as there is no money! So you have to rely on doing your own stuff or you wont get released!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love Robot rock, but come on its basically the sample over and over!!! So yeah they are creative producers, but without the samples what are they???
Yeah this is all nice but they can actually clear the samples!!!!! Cause they are huge mainstream guys. Get a small artist to do that!!! No way possible as there is no money! So you have to rely on doing your own stuff or you wont get released!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love Robot rock, but come on its basically the sample over and over!!! So yeah they are creative producers, but without the samples what are they???
According to Wikipedia, you are missing :
ReplyDelete- Barry White "I'm gonna love just a little bit more babe", which has been used in 'Da Funk' for the break;
- Vaughan Mason & Crew "Roll Bounce Rock Skate" which has also been used in 'Da Funk'
Now come on, we all know Daft Punk rocks. They can sample, they can create, they can mix, they can do whatever they want, we'll be here to listen carefully and just learn from them.
sorry but here there are just 5 tracks where daft punk has sampled...
ReplyDelete-digital love
-harder, better
-crescendolls
-superhereos
-robot rock
And these where already credited in the Booklet so we have no new news.
The other tracks may have similar sounds, basses or chords, but this are more coincidences or a genre thing... You won't hear anything really obvious
The ELO "Evil Woman" sample is the guitar riff from the chorus.
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ReplyDeleteanybody know what the female vocal is? I saw someone asked this earlier, but I never saw an answer.
ReplyDeleteFUCK YOU
ReplyDeleteGreat list, good work!
ReplyDeleteI'm still a Daft Punk fan, they really did something new with the samples, even with "Cola Bottle Baby"!
best blog EVVVVERRR!
ReplyDeleteNice "Homework".
ReplyDeleteYOU KNOW SHIT ABOUT ELECTRO, house techno, etc.
ReplyDeleteOff course they use sample from other buried musics whats the problem with that, every DJ do that.
I've listen to some very good mixes from music of the crappy 80's, most of the cases they only sample some part of the music.
Turning a simple stone into a diamond thats a real talent.
Turning some sample from a crappy music into a dance hit thats something that most people can't do...
So SHUT THE FUCK UP RETARD
Dont forget the sample in One More Time -- look it up in wikipedia.
ReplyDeletethat's why they hide under these robot masks! daft punk can fuck off, for real
ReplyDelete"Turning some sample from a crappy music into a dance hit thats something that most people can't do... "
ReplyDeleteCrappy music???? Are funk and disco not white enough for you?? You need people like Beck and Daft Punk to apply some bleach and make dance hits that your ignorant suburban ass can enjoy??
To their credit Beck, DP know their history and they would never label their influences as "crappy music"
at first we was like shit, f@ck!
ReplyDeletebut then we was like, daaaamn. they're good at what they do.
that's true talent.
it's the whole process of finding the samples, crafting them, and producing them into the songs. it's great - we love what they do.
think you should be looking at the work of Mylo next. he samples tracks to hell too.
ReplyDeleteThe robot rock one is the only that actually bothers me, but it doesn't bother me that much at all.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they did basically rip the song almost dirrectly, but I still thin kthe daft version sounds better.
Can't we just say they're two good DJs who can work some wonderful material?
Listen Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby, at 1:01, it's sampled by Para one too, in the track named "Midnight Swim".
ReplyDeleteELO & "Face To Face"
ReplyDeleteChorus @ 1:11
That's proof enough. And those are both in my top 10 favorite songs.
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Apparently, some of you don't understand Daft Punk at all.
First of all, it's impossible to get all of the sounds they used on their albums directly from the records. Sound Design principles allow you to use various samples to create one whole new sound, based on the original. They make it work, time and time again. And it's not all the same damn thing.
How about the "guitars" in Human After All? Not all the "guitars" are in fact guitars. They used Guitars to make sounds that aren't native to a guitar (with various processing methods) as well as using other things to sound like guitars. They went pretty crazy with that album. In fact, I believe the Rhythm on "Prime Time..." is from a Game Boy.
Explain to me, logically, how taking samples of a musical piece to create a NEW piece of music is not like carefully placing the silences in a composition? Think about those breakdowns, those dropouts on the music that you adore. It's a wholly different perspective to song-writing. As well, it's more of a direct "thank you" to whoever has influenced your music.
As for being in it for the money - they found success at a young age and haven't managed to fuck it up. Greed kills careers. They make damn good music, and very few people I know can spot a Daft Punk song in a heartbeat (I, of course, can from outside clubs a street away). And even in they can, they don't even know the artist who wrote it. Or anything besides it's on their iPod.
They do clear the samples, but some artists don't care to be credited, they just want the royalties. It's a contract-by-contract basis
To respond to David:
"you've gotten me to hate all these artists for lack of creativity honestly. I am a fledgling music producer..."
And as a fledgling, you don't understand how much f***ing work goes into ONE song. Please, show me the dynamics used in each song. Show me how each song is different than the other, and each album does the same. Then, in ten years, show me how you've managed to be creative and sound really really good.
As for Creativity, there is no doubt in my mind that every single song on each album can stand independently from the rest. That is why there are (at least) 15 unofficial remixes of every song Daft Punk has put out. "Da Funk" rocked the House for many DJ's who asked "Who the hell is this?" Not only are they creative, but they spawn creativity in others.
Daft Punk's vision is... well, just that. They write music as visual artist - that's why their videos are so different. Interstella 5555 was an exploration of matching music directly to a story. Their music has a visual appeal. Most of their songs have stories, despite the lack of words. Their creative genius spans beyond music. Their image, samples, copyright management, videos, contracts, suits, contract (including termination) with Virgin are all a testament to their control of their music and lifestyle. Did you know Thomas has a child? No, no, you didn't. Because they're in control of their public image. That's why they are Robots to the masses.
I know how it works, because I am an artist with an image to build in the same light, separate from what humanly conditions I have been subject to. Their mythology will outlive their own experience.
Nobody gives a nod to "The New Wave, and "Indo Silver Club, Part II" - If you've ever heard those, you'll understand the roots of Human After All. Taking "Hot Shot" and turning it into "Indo Silver Club, Part II" is a pretty crazy outcome.
I will defend Daft Punk, as they have been (poorly) discredited as "uncreative" "talentless" and, above all "a bunch of daft punk".
Your criticisms are a mockery of criticism.
(-J.)™
(dashJdot)™
daft punk is the best
ReplyDeletedaft punk es lo mejor.
amazing, increible.
The majority of you guys are a massive heap of steaming hypocrite, topped with a light nut crust powder and seasoned with only the finest asscream.
ReplyDeleteYou all go on about how "DAFT PUNK IS THE BEST BUT NOW I HATE THEM WHAT LOSERS I LOVED THEM NOW THEY ARE TERRIBLE." Well, had any of you idiots actually BOUGHT any of their albums rather than just downloading them, you would have known all this from reading the liner notes. Loving them isn't stealing all their shit, if you truly admire their music, you should be buying their albums.
I dont get it. They sample stuff. So what?
ReplyDeletesome of these songs are sampled! i don't have a problem with that. however, i've heard elos "evil woman" many, many times and "face to face" many times too. i don't hear the connection. same goes out out for many of these. like "the rec room"? come on.....
ReplyDeleteEven if I could sampel one of these songs, it wouldn't sound anywere close like Daft Punk!
ReplyDeleteHmm... "Not as geniuos", is my vote. Of course I knew they sampled a lot, but I thought they sampled SOUNDS and short phrases. But they actually rip whole intros, choruses and half songs! That's just remixing, not composition...
ReplyDeleteI believe the "supernatural" song might itself containa bit of sampling - Jean Michelle Jarre, if my ears aren't decieving me
ReplyDeleteI guess there's a limit between sampling and copying. Robot Rock for example, I thought to be one of the most amazing songs just because of that melody. Now I see it's a HUGE sample, not a little inspiration. I don't know, take that sample off, what is left of it?
ReplyDeletedaaaaamn. those are a lot of comments. i didnt have time to read through all of them, but i read something about loving this blog and cock. wow!
ReplyDeletei dunno, but i just wanted to say very very very nice.
p.s. daft punk + june = L.A. ! my friend told me that. actually it was a few weeks ago and he told me this, "damn man I just found out that Daft Punk is playing in LA in July!!!! OH SHIT!!!!"
OOOOOH MAN
my bad. july. am i that excited?
ReplyDeleteI always wondered what was the real message behind Human After All... and I guess I know now.
ReplyDeleteThey said it was their "saddest" album... and I think I completely understand now - it was an album recorded over a two-week period, quick and simple, gritty, and raw. I think it's their way of mocking mainstream music and music-making in today's music industry.
Thankyou for this post - I've always wanted to hear the originals! :)
I admit I got slightly disappointed, probably because I didn't expect THAT much sampling... but after 3 seconds of putting it into perspective, I realized they are, indeed, geniuses.
Thanks again, greatly appreciated...
Daft Punk still owns anyways.
ReplyDeleteto DaFtFaD:
ReplyDeleteAmen, seriously...
"There are no liner notes for Human After All."
ReplyDeleteRemove the HAA CD from the spindle. See that text that is wrapped around in a circle? Those are the liner notes and it states that elements of "Release the Beast" are in "Robot Rock"
Your sources listed for "Voyager", "Around The World" and "Veridis Quo" are erroneous. The songs bear certain similarities but are not sampled.
ReplyDeletewonderful- thank you for uncovering this!
ReplyDeletethanks for the links for the downloads, very interesting, havent lost any faith in the guys, going to see them live in fact in july and still cant wait!
ReplyDeleteI really like how they found that tiny little sample in Barry Manilow - "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed" and turned it into SuperHeros, I sat here clicking on the Windows Media player scoll bar rewinding the 20-23 second clip to recreate the track, and I highly doubt I would've noticed it myself as something to create such a bomb track as Superheros. Hats off to the Duo, I've got my tickets for Aug5 at Arroow hall in Toronto :D
ReplyDeleteAmazing! Daft Punk aint so Daft after all (as in stupid). My Robot Heroes!
ReplyDeletethis is gonna be my summer album 07
Thanks!
I must be missing something... Where can i get these remix sundays tracks? They ROCK!
ReplyDeleteand i wanna have em!
Let me know!
bram@mousetiger.com
umm..i don't know if this has already been said, but none of this is "news". all these samples, or at least the ones from Discovery, are listed on the Interstella DVD case. so umm..yeah. it wouldn't have tooken much effort to find any of these.
ReplyDeletetwice as amaizing!!
ReplyDeletelove that samples....
the genius is that they found that outrangous collection of samples and make amazing track out of that!!
LOVE IT!!!
wow! great work, man.
ReplyDeleteThe whole album is to pay tribute to the artists they loved in their childhood... they've said it themselves.
ReplyDeletedon't crap them off because they sample, you loved the songs before you knew they where sampled, so what's the difference?
if you say its that easy to sample, why dont you show us all of your stuff?
daft punk _o_
great work! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou all think that they have no talent?
ReplyDeleteYou take some of those samples up there and try to loop it the way they did.
Daftfad said it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't bother me nor am I surprised. What they have did with these songs are simply amazing and great. Robot Rock doesn't even bother me, i still think thats a great song.
I just heard their live set from Coachella last year and what they did sounded truly amazing and I plan on seeing them when they are coming to Denver this summer.
I always thought they were geniuses, and after hearing all these samples and hearing what they done with them i have them in the highest regards even now. Its not like they steal, they give credit and they transform these songs into something amazing.
See them live. I bet u will think the same.
daft punk stay chiefs.. they are djs after all, they can use samples!
ReplyDeletethank you for this blog.
Came by to figure out what the Crescendolls sample is from.
ReplyDeleteDaft Punk was the very first band I heard that made me seriously interested in electronic music -- it was their single "Musique" on the Wipeout XL soundtrack.
I've always considered Daft Punk more DJs or remixers, than producers in, for instance, the "Beatles" sense.
They basically use bar-long samples in a "tape-loop" style and throw TR-909 beats over it. (They do so brilliantly of course -- this is much, much more difficult than it seems.)
This type of thing, though, is very much what you'll hear guys like Ron Hardy and Farley Funk pioneering back in the early 80's. All this is happening on mix cassettes and on special reel-to-reel edits they made for themselves -- it's almost like the idea that these should be released as "tracks" never occurred to them.
That's really my only disappointment about the whole thing, actually, that -- like everything else good -- it went from being underground and carefree to being on a Gap commercial and for sale.
Just so everyone knows, nothing on "homework" was sampled. Discovery, as the name implies, is a sampled album. They most certainly added a personal twist to these songs to make them something entirely different. And about the whole breakwater thing, Kae Williams, the man who wrote and played "Release the Beast" is given writing credits on the Robot Rock single. I believe they worked with him in producing the song.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Track - Veridis Quo - I think that integrating that sample must have been harder than just completely redoing it, in other words , due to the fact that they altered what was sampled so much, I think that they prove that their creative blood is still flowing. I didn't really like homework though.
ReplyDeleteTwice as amazing
ReplyDeleteI just think it's great how they used that sample in 'Indo Silver Club', my fave song by them, to make a techno classic. The real story here, however, is how they commercialized themselves and sacrificed the underground scene that put them on the map to begin with. Not a fan of them anymore, and the fact that concert tickets to see them are $50 now! They've gone a bit Pete Tong it seems...
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Brasil. Congratulations for THE GREAT JOB dudes!
ReplyDeleteNo broken links, a lot of COOL tunes, a lot of INFORMATION and a lot of culture trough time... Sorry for the bad english and keep the supremacy!
I was looking for those original tunes for a long time ago... And now i've found it. Among a LOT of other stuff... Very very very cool!
See ya around!
I'm a hobby producer and graphic designer for living... what a shit job! =]
Love for all!
i got no problem with sampling, the way they've chopped barry manilow, elo and the rest into their tracks is genius and totally amazing to hear. but you can see why they've hidden the human after all credits under the cd. the main single on that album pretty much just has new vocals and that's it. i mean i love the song and i'm glad it exists, but i'd feel better about it if they just labeled it as a daft punk remix of breakwater y'know?
ReplyDeleteand what's with the guy that trademarked his comment? are people ripping off screen names these days?
You think that you have discovered someting new? that this is shocking?
ReplyDeleteit is well-known that Daft Punk focus on fusing mid-80's Kool and the Gang R&B beats with post-millennial prog flourishes and more vocoders than you can shake at Herbie Hancock.(2001)
Only your stupidity is shocking.
I *loved* their album Discovery. It's one of the best albums I ever heard. But now, when I see that they sampled such essential parts of their tracks I'm kinda disappointed. Yes, they have enhanced them and put them together, but it seems to me that it was not a half of the work.
ReplyDeleteI'll be still loving them though :(
Great post. Thanks for the tracks.
ReplyDeleteWait a minute ... you're telling me that electronic music is based on samples of other peoples music?!?! What the hell??
ReplyDeletePeople get over it ... some of these samples have been lifted directly but most of them were woven into Daft Punk's music to create something new. Discovery is still one of the greatest records ever ...
wow, thankyou, that blew my mind. funny tho i feel less cheated than when i heard 'massive attacks' samples, cos I kinda assumed Daft Punk used loadsa samples anyway. still shocking tho..
ReplyDeletehaha come on guys. no reason to flip shit over this. sampling is as old as electro itself. if it bothers you that much, you're listening to the wrong music.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe it !
ReplyDeleteFUCK YOU DUDE. FUCK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
ReplyDeleteI really can't believe some of the reactions here.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand some are so understanding and clear-headed, I'm so glad.
Because to understand the difficulty of sampling and re-creating something tiny and uninteresting to create this amazing music that becomes a BEAUTIFUL piece of art, you have to really understand musical talent.
Which a lot of these people don't understand, or perhaps don't take the time to listen.
But, if you can honestly compare these boring, washed-up, beats ( sorry if you like these songs) and the remixed, recreated melodies of Daft Punk and not be able to see that the difference is absolutely amazing, then the'yre is something seriously wrong with your ear for music and the comparative section of your brain.
And I know I'm probably coming off as some sort of a Daft Punk freak (which I have to admit, sort-of am) But it's not just the love of Daft Punk,
It's the love of CREATIVITY and ART and recognizing the amazing talent humans have.
If any of these people that are all pissed off and what not think that they could recreate an old jam into these amazing songs that just seem to speak to you in the melodies, they're fucking crazy. Sorry, but dude seriously,
Just watch INTERSTELLA 5555 and you'll see that their music really speaks to people it reaches out and sort of makes you feel great, and the man that created this movie recognized the genius of it all.
Maybe some of you "dissapointed" people could just shut up and give it a shot.
I'm pretty sure you'd discover this music in the way it was made to be felt.
Sam
ReplyDeleteMy screen name was not trademarked, it was my dashed and dotted persona, the (-J.)™
It's so simple I've been marketing it as such.
Either way, I was quite amused to read the "early pioneers" "never thought to release" their music. Eventually they did. The pioneers find some level of success - we wouldn't know about it unless it became something COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE.
I'm pretty sure anybody with the success of Daft Punk would either completely screw it up for the fans and lose any success as a prominent figure in the musical realm, or... wait, no that's pretty much the overwhelming chosen option. They're not going anywhere for a while, that is if they decide to keep going.
Daft Punk have earned their right to be called a Powerhouse. No pun intended, or we could call them Powerelectro too.
As for the Underground
"they commercialized themselves and sacrificed the underground scene that put them on the map to begin with"
... imbecile. The underground still loves them. And, unfortunately for the rebels and the employed Anarchists, the general population loves them too, for at least one song or another. Not that they care to listen to each song with intent and analyze the story of each album. Or think that albums can tell stories (not that all do or should)
Not to mention, they were under contract with Virgin!! "MEGAMONOPOLY" VIRGIN ENTERTAINMENT! Hello, paradigm shift, people!
Who was in charge of publicity, flyers, album distribution, ideas for commercial placement, they owned that part of them. What commercials were they in where they did not represent the Robot, slave masses where Television Rules the Nation?
GAP (free clothes) and Motorola both featured the robots known as Daft Punk. they were mocking the society they know and live in while making money.
Their presentation is artistic.
Plus they really did some overcommercialization with "Electroma"... and the red carpet appearances and only showing up as Second-bill in their performances.
OH wait... they still have sold out shows all over the world. They've never washed up.
Every other "staple" electronic musician/DJ I know of is being billed under a hotter act, while Daft Punk is headlining their own tour and picking the bands they tour with. They earned that right.
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Time to wind down from arguing.
Gonna listen to some RATATAT. They remind me of a youthful Daft Punk.
(-J.)™ purveyor of indicative sonix
These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.
ReplyDeletedaft punk rules no matter if they did loop the music or not. by them looping the old songs, they are bringing old songs their populatry back
ReplyDeleteAnybody who is shocked or appalled by learning Daft Punk used as many samples as they did really doesn't know much of anything about house music of the filter house genre of the late 90's.
ReplyDeletelooking for the face to face lyrics
ReplyDeleteTwice as brilliant.
ReplyDeleteSampling is different from copying.
ReplyDeleteI don't think its bad, I think its amazing the fact that they got some sounds of those horrible old musics and made some AMAZING techno =D
ReplyDeleteThose original tracks are so much cooler than the Daft Punk ones...
ReplyDeleteI have lost a lotta respect for DP after this...considering newer material is substandard, with tracks like Robot Rock i thought "well, it may go on interminably and do nothing, but that's one sweet ass synth lick". They just looped someone elses lick. Like another person who commented i can't believe i have been listening to Manilow either!!
ReplyDeletei don't buy people saying "oooh you don't know your dance then" and stuff like that either. Listen to Kraftwerk, the godfathers - did they ever just lift a song? No. I don't care if DP call themselves house, that doesn't excuse it. They may credit the samples, but we assume that samples are just that, a sample - with Robot Rock they have rereleased someone's intro! Beck and DJ Shadow and other sample heavy artists are up front about it, I like many other on the blog feel a bit cheated by the Punkers!
Congrats to Daft Punk for all their success. Headlining Lollapalooza with Pearl Jam is quite a milestone.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing against sampling and it's no big surprise that so much of what you hear now days is snippets of forgotten gems from the past.
But something that we all know also to be true is that many great talents in music never get the recognition they deserve. It's one of the most competitive and contentious industries I've ever experienced. So when I heard 'Release the Beast' thevery first thing that entered my mind is "Cool track by this unknown band", not, "Wow, Daft Punk can sure find em!" But that's just me.
Bottom line, Breakwater is finely "getting paid", or at least the owners of the publishing rights are. Considering that Breakwater is one of those "already buried" talents, then I can only surmise that Daft Punk should be thanked for bringing this fantastic groove to the foreground of popular music.
Some great samples like the "Amen Break" which has been used on literally hundreds of tracks has never been actually STOLEN time and time again. But when you print the credits on an album, it's going to usually mean that some monies are being paid out, so Daft Punk's success is also benefiting the owners of those samples.
Daft Punk know exactly what they are doing. The mere fact that they hide behind the robot masks is indicative of how they want the focus to be on the music - a refreshing attitude amongst a sea of over-the-top egomaniacs. Many responders of this blog have stated how long they've been trying to discover the samples that are the basis for Daft Punk's tunes. In my estimation, these guys have enourmous collections of great music which they hold dear to them and the reason they chose those samples is because they already love the songs. To me this is a honorable admiration for greatness. It's all ab out love. Finding these hidden gems is proof positive that they are extremely passionate about music (and it's history). In my opinion, Daft Punk are true to electronic music's roots and ideals and long may they reign.
~M<
Sorry, Meant to say:
ReplyDeleteSome great samples like the "Amen Break" which has been used on literally hundreds of tracks has been actually STOLEN time and time again.
Want to know more about the Amen Break?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
~M<
Daft Punk responds:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/daft-punk-sample-sources-half-list-not-true/
Those songs are shit, daft punk songs arent, everyone saying they hate daft punk now because they found out they used samples is an idiot, and their loss for not liking great music anymore.
ReplyDeleteClearly Daft Punk were not the only band to sample ELO' Evil Woman. Prick up your ears to the break at 2:40. It should remind you of some girl band.
ReplyDeleteDudes, kinda off topic, anyone going to the after parties? Im going to the Chicago and NY ones, they seem to be the best, there is info on www.mas-forever.com
ReplyDeleteWORD! so excited!!
Two more Technologic remixes here...Robot Rock meets classic rock! (Well, 80s rock too)
ReplyDeletehttp://trickledown.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/daft-punk-new-technologic-remixes/
Dang, Oliver Cheatham - "Get Down Saturday Night" has been sampled in songs like Michael Gray's "The Weekend" and Room 5's "Make Luv" it's a nice track though so I don't blame them...
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand those rebuking their love of Daft Punk because of this bulletin.
ReplyDeleteDaft Punk boys will back me up on this. Half of the list is very tenuously composed (saying a song 'sounds similar' is not incriminating given Daft Punk's oldschool theme), with those actually sampled receiving full recognition!
I, for one, have only grown more in love with Daft Punk.
Their artistry and love for music has only been confirmed for me.
Peace! And please never hate music, it defies the point.
So does anyone know what song(s) they sampled to make 'High Life'? The 'burn a... bone' part is one of my favorite sounds ever. As far as I know no one knows...
ReplyDeleteAlso, can anyone tell me what instrument did they turn the Rec Room into in Around the World? The Drums, Bass, Guitar, Keyboard, or Vocals? I don't here any similarity.
Very interesting!
ReplyDeletedaft punk is twice as amazing
ReplyDeletei have very mixed feelings part of me is disappointed cause I didn't realize how much was sampled and the other is absolutely amazed at what they did with it
ReplyDeleteSampling has always been cool with me, I just never took this as sampled music. I still love'em, they push the envelope for the future of music.
ReplyDeletevoila, on découvre les origines.
ReplyDeletethe ones that they have cleared and listed are obvious.
ReplyDeletethe one more time one is probably right but they just chopped a few random notes from it and made a totally new tune from it.
the face to face tune i dunno. altho that tune obviously does use samples, maybe from more than one song. it was co produced with todd edwards and u can tell as it uses the same kinda sampling technique that he uses.
but a lot of them are not true at all. maybe ur saying they interpolated them. BUT ur saying they interpolated a one note guitar line from oliver cheatham or some basic synth arpeggio from that supernatural song. theyre not distinct melodies or musical phrases, so its a bit far fetched that daft punk copied them
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that “Something About Us” obviously borrows from Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do For Love” (especially the bassline) and “Nightvision” sounds very reminiscent of 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love.” Check it out if you don’t believe me.
ReplyDeleteThat's the kind of stuff that could destroy one of my legends, that's why I'll never listen to these tracks ! ^^
ReplyDeleteHowever, I already know Supernature, and I can't find the link between Veridis Quo and that song...
The following text is an excerpt written by the KLF
ReplyDeletefor whom its too long, just read the first two sentences ...
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All music can only be the sum or part total of what has gone before. Every Number One song ever written is only made up from bits from other songs. There is no lost chord. No changes untried. No extra notes to the scale or hidden beats to the bar. There is no point in searching for originality. In the past, most writers of songs spent months in their lonely rooms strumming their guitars or bands in rehearsals have ground their way through endless riffs before arriving at the song that takes them to the very top. Of course, most of them would be mortally upset to be told that all they were doing was leaving it to chance before they stumbled across the tried and tested. They have to believe it is through this sojourn they arrive at the grail; the great and original song that the world will be unable to resist.
So why don't all songs sound the same? Why are some artists great, write dozens of classics that move you to tears, say it like it's never been said before, make you laugh, dance, blow your mind, fall in love, take to the streets and riot? Well, it's because although the chords, notes, harmonies, beats and words have all been used before their own soul shines through; their personality demands attention. This doesn't just come via the great vocalist or virtuoso instrumentalist. The Techno sound of Detroit, the most totally linear programmed music ever, lacking any human musicianship in its execution reeks of sweat, sex and desire. The creators of that music just press a few buttons and out comes - a million years of pain and lust.
We await the day with relish that somebody dares to make a dance record that consists of nothing more than an electronically programmed bass drum beat that continues playing the fours monotonously for eight minutes. Then, when somebody else brings one out using exactly the same bass drum sound and at the same beats per minute (B.P.M.), we will all be able to tell which is the best, which inspires the dance floor to fill the fastest, which has the most sex and the most soul. There is no doubt, one will be better than the other. What we are basically saying is, if you have anything in you, anything unique, what others might term as originality, it will come through whatever the component parts used in your future Number One are made up from.
Creators of music who desperately search originality usually end up with music that has none because no room for their spirit has been left to get through. The complete history of the blues is based on one chord structure, hundreds of thousands of songs using the same three basic chords in the same pattern. Through this seemingly rigid formula has come some of the twentieth century's greatest music. In our case we used parts from thrcc very famous songs, Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll", "The Doctor Who Theme" and the Sweet's "Blockbuster" and pasted them together, neither of us playing a note on the record. We know that the finished record contains as much of us in it as if we had spent three months locked away somewhere trying to create our master-work. The people who bought the record and who probably do not give a blot about the inner souls of Rockman Rock or King Boy D knew they were getting a record of supreme originality.
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Great post in this blog. Some of those tracks I had never heard before. I find it hilarious that people get all upset when they hear the original tracks djs sample from. WHAT EXACTLY IS IT THAT YOU THINK DJS DO THEN?!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteIndeed, half of these sample references are flat out incorrect. (If the author wishes to present more evidence, he should state the exact portion of the track sampled and how it was integrated, and should provide side-by-side comparisons of the relevant portions of each song.)
ReplyDeleteThese I think are absolutely incorrect:
Cerrone "Supernature"
Sister Sledge "Il Macquillage Lady"
Jerry Goldsmith "The Rec Room"
Oliver Cheatham "Get Down Saturday Night"
The valid ones have been acknowledged by Daft Punk.
The "iffy" ones include "More Spell On You," and "Evil Woman."
In the latter two cases, I can hear similar sounds but the songs are so radically different it's hard to call it "stealing." A one second blip, run through filters, rearranged, and pitch-adjusted into a melody is a far cry from a whole-sale copy-and-augment like that of "Robot Rock."
This is why the Internet can be such a bad thing. Some guy posts a list and most people here just buy it wholesale. I'll bet have of you folks didn't even listen to the supposed sampled songs!
One More Time indeed sampled Eddie Johns' More Spell On You.
ReplyDeleteThis video explains it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxITRKIObY
I love Daft Punk, but with Robot Rock they crossed the line. When you steal the main idea without bringing something else, this is blatantly plagiarism.
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Fortunately, "Human After All" is not in the list. Was my favorite one!
ReplyDeletewhoh whoh hey cmon ppl i mean they make the songs better and also look at some of the songs not even like Daft Punk's for example: Tata Vega - "Get It Up For Love", Jerry Goldsmith - "The Rec Room", and Eddie Johns - "More Spell On You". This is katuso from YouTube. lol
ReplyDeleteawesome post - i'll be dropping a few of these at my next gig!!
ReplyDeleteI know samples of Daft Punk since much time and damn i nearly cried for this,because i love them so much!But some songs arent samples of them..(for me) like the sample of Veridis Quo,Da Funk,Around The World,Aerodynamic and Voyager..
ReplyDelete-dAFTgIRL-
Yeah... for those of you who don't know, most of these songs have full representation in the liner notes. As other people have noted- Daft Punk also frequently re-record tracks themselves. When you see a note like "all guitars by Daft Punk", that means they re-recorded everything themselves so they could mix it they way they wanted it.
ReplyDeleteHow many people know that, for example, Aretha Franklin's "Respect" was originally written and performed by Otis Redding? And does that diminish Franklin's version in any way?
Not to mention, as said:
"Indeed, half of these sample references are flat out incorrect [...] This is why the Internet can be such a bad thing. Some guy posts a list and most people here just buy it wholesale. I'll bet have of you folks didn't even listen to the supposed sampled songs!"
This is hardly anything amazing DJ's of all sorts use sampling, they are in not way stealing the songs and taking major credit for the artists songs. The skill that comes with being a dj is wether or not you can take a sample and turn it in to a good song which daft punk have done so well and they should be credited for doing this. So a wouldnt be disapointed as almost ever dance, house, hip hop etc etc etc Dj uses samples to create songs we hear on the radio and in clubs and so on..........
ReplyDeleteIf you actually research daft punk...you would have already have known that they use sampling in their music. They admit to it and quote that they actually use other songs and incorporate it into their own. Its quite fantastic and quite possibly the first time I have heard the songs they use.
ReplyDeleteThere still my favorite.
And still my uttermost favorite obsession.
If knowing that Daft Punk makes you dislike them and think they are talentless, then you werent a fan in the first place and you underestimate their genius. They are talented and creative people. Sampling is juist something may have incorporated into their style. What's wrong with that?
ReplyDeleteSo, by saying that they've been used by daft punk this somehow allows you to just post huge MP3's of all these artists?
ReplyDeleteDaft Punk would never even make a dime if you would do the same with THEIR tracks. And why don't you, by the way?
What a bunch of hypocrites, as usual.