Tag: daft punk

Giorgio by Moroder

On 24 June 2013

E’ uscito il nuovo lavoro dei Daft Punk, big della musica elettronica degli anni 90 e 2000. Mi ha parzialmente deluso, anche se è un indubbio lavoro di qualità. Giustamente cercano sonorità nuove, che si allontanano un po’ dai loro canoni standard. Tra le varie tracce un po’ futuribili e un po’ retrò, ce n’è una che mi fa impazzire, l’avrò già ascoltata mille volte. E’ quella dove incontrano uno dei pionieri di questo genere musicale: Giorgio Moroder. Ascoltate le sue parole, quando racconta del suo sogno diventato realtà e sentite la musica: anche l’elettronica ha un’anima!

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When I was fifteen, sixteen, when I really started to play the guitar,
I definitely wanted to become a musician.
It was almost impossible because the dream was so big.
I didn’t see any chance because I was living in a little town; I was studying.
And when I finally broke away from school and became a musician,
I thought, "Well, now I may have a little bit of a chance,"
Because all I really wanted to do is music – and not only play music,
But compose music.

At that time, in Germany, in ’69-’70, they had already discotheques.
So, I would take my car, would go to a discotheque and sing maybe 30 minutes. I think I had about seven, eight songs. I would partially sleep in the car because I didn’t want to drive home and that help me for about almost two years to survive in the beginning.

I wanted to do a album with the sound of the ’50s, the sound of the ’60s, of the ’70s and then have a sound of the future. And I said, "Wait a second…I know the synthesizer – why don’t I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?" And I didn’t have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click so we put a click on the 24 track which then was synched to the Moog Modular. I knew that it could be a sound of the future but I didn’t realise how much the impact it would be.

My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio.

Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

Da funk back to the punk

By Fabio

On 11 March 2009

In musica

Dafunk back to the punk come on dafunk back to the punk come on dafunk back to the punk come on dafunk back to the punk come on…..

Cavoli sembra passata una vita… è passata una vita! Da quando i Daft Punk hanno iniziato a spaccare col singolo Around the World nel 1997 (e io li ho visti live, troooooooppo space, Jimmy ti ricordi il tizio di "Gorgonzolaaaa emme emme dueeeeeeee" ?). Secondo me sono tra i pochi, insieme ai "Fratelli Chimici" Chemical Brothers, a uscire ogni tanto con qualche bel pezzo. Beh.. a me piacciono. Stasera mi sono tornati in mente vedendo per l’ennesima volta la pubblicità dell’Alfa MiTo:

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, melt – upgrade it, charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it, snap it, work it, quick – erase it, write it, cut it, paste it, save it, load it, check it, quick – rewrite it, plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, drag and drop it, zip – unzip it, lock it, fill it, curl it, find it, view it, coat it, jam – unlock it, surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it, cross it, crack it, twitch – update it, name it, rate it, tune it, print it, scan it, send it, fax – rename it, touch it, bring it, obey it, watch it, turn it, leave it, stop – format it: technologic… technologic… technologic… technologic…