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Random Access Memories
Daft Punk · 2013 · Track 1
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Duración4:34
ÁlbumRandom Access Memories
Año2013
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The story behind
The essence of *Give Life Back to Music* lies in a return to the warmth and texture of real instrumentation, a deliberate counterpoint to the more minimalist electronic production of previous works. Daft Punk members, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, set out to evoke the atmosphere of late 70s and early 80s American music, especially that emanating from Los Angeles. To achieve this, they enlisted session musicians with the help of Chris Caswell, seeking to capture the spontaneity and nuances that only human performance can offer. The idea was to bring back that elegance and lightness that they felt was being lost in music.
The recording of *Random Access Memories*, the album that *Give Life Back to Music* is part of, spanned from 2008 to 2012, covering studios in California such as Henson, Conway, and Capitol Studios, in addition to Electric Lady Studios in New York and Gang Recording Studio in Paris. The collaboration with Nile Rodgers, a key figure of Chic, was a long-standing pending conversation. Rodgers met the duo in New York and, after several frustrated attempts, finally joined the sessions at Electric Lady Studios, a place with special significance as it was where Chic recorded their first single and was also in the neighborhood where he grew up. Giorgio Moroder, another collaborator, noted that finding the right vocoder sound could take a week, and then additional days to record the vocals. Gonzales, who contributed keyboards, described his participation as a single-day session, where he played for hours and the duo transformed his material. The drums, for their part, were handled by John "JR" Robinson, known for his work on albums like Michael Jackson's *Off The Wall*, providing a performance that the duo considered impossible to replicate electronically.