I’d heard talk on the radio, a while ago, that there had been a short TV ad spot consisting of a short bit of music and the Daft Punk signature, and looking at the music press section of magazines on the shelf at a train station retailer this week those robot faces were on many of the covers: so it seems Daft Punk have a new album out. Good for them, I thought, and later — having been primed so well for it — I was curious enough to click on a link to this interview on BBC Radio 6 music. (content only available for a short time)
Interview highlights (by Sam Freeman, from memory having listed to it once, while cooking, a few days ago):
- concept of working on the production of a album with a cast and crew involved; analogy to big movie production (Daft Punk having taken a break from making their new album to work on the Tron Legacy soundtrack).
- why they see computers in music making as a bad thing: lack of individual identity in the sound because the setup is too shared; brief description of their early setup using samplers etc as comparison; (from about 12min in, I think)
- why Iron Man didn’t pass Daft Punk auditions, and who did…
