i'm ashamed to say i was a little late on this really fucking cool project that's been slowly molding into blogosphere fruition. thank god i figured everything out last night, because it came out a couple of hours ago. any later in updating you and it would have been mortifying.
so a couple (10) blogs out there got together and decided, being the great middlemen they are, to produce (in the traditional sense) a recreation of daft's punk third opus, human after all, which to many people fell a teeny bit short of expectations, and the accompanying remix disc, which many people felt plummeted to its death.
granted, they set the bar pretty high with the one-two punch of homework and discovery, especially since they just went and coverted a bunch of top 40 listeners with one more time. they then, as one review put it, "hit the self-destruct button," releasing nine new songs and one channel-surfing interlude that were minimal to the point of demo-quality, and sounded like disco samples filtered through the garbage disposal in your kitchen sink.
while that last sentence might incline you to believe i'm not a huge fan of the album, don't be mistaken. of course i, probably like most every other daft punk fan out there, wrestled with an inner tantrum for a while, feeling like i was somehow the butt of a very inside joke. but over time i eventually accepted the album for what it is, and came to enjoy (maybe the right word is appreciate) it very much, despite the fact that it is NOT the lot of things that everyone wanted it to be.
what the alive 2007 tour illustrated was how strong the album's ideas were. mashed-up against cresendolls and sped up a bit, television rules the nation is pure stadium status. throw the rollin & scratchin drums under prime time of your life, and watch out cuz your face might melt off. steam machine literally drips sweat globules down your face when around the world is filtered up underneath it.
but it took a little while for a lot of us to understand those dynamics, and the remix disc daft punk included with the japan release of the album didn't help. there were a few solid tracks, like erol arlkan's take on the brainwasher and parts of the digitalism (ironically the ones that didn't feature any part of the original song) remix were really dope. and daft punk themselves were so pleased with para one's reimagining of prime time that they incorporated it into the encore for their tour. but only the latter really utilized the strengths of the original recording, and with an album as (dare i say) misunderstood as human after all, you would hope that a remix album would leave the listener wanting to go back and give the original album another spin. also, someone really should have been shot for including that peaches track.
anyways, now that i'm done ranting, back to my original point, which is that 10 blogs out there each chose a track off human after all, and then contracted the track out to (presumably) one of the production acts that the blog has had a big hand in breaking. the result is remix after all, and i was originally going to throw in my two cents on the results, but i've already written quite a bit and have therefore decided to turn this post into a two-parter. if you simply can't wait until tomorrow, google will surely point you in the right direction and you can make up your own mind.
some highlights from the original remix album:
Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life (Para One Remix)
Daft Punk - The Brainwasher (Erol Arlkan's Horrorhouse Dub)
Daft Punk - Technologic (Digitalism's Highway to Paris Remix)
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