I like music, but I have the rather curious attitude that all different types of music are all more or less the same thing. This results in an eclectic CD collection. People think they have eclectic music collections. Then they see mine. This page used to be a list of bands I liked, but I just couldn't keep up with what Neil Young was getting up to on a day-to-day basis, so I decided to make it more like my books page, a series of reviews. solo1's album reviews
Daft Punk is two French DJs making dance records for ages. Their real identities have been subsumed by the two robots that appear in public for them. It takes a bit of investigation to find out what they actually look like, but it doesn't really matter. It's hard not to love them, with their feelgood dance-pop vaguely-themed tracks. This album is a recording of the set that they first played in Coachella in 2006. I remember the bunch of crappy YouTube vids that popped up soon afterwards. And then, wherever they played, the YouTube madness would surely follow. What they did was kind of genius. They took almost every track in their entire archive and mix-mashed it with another track from their archive. It sounds like a mess, but it works. It really, gloriously works. So if you like the idea that a track should have a beat, then listen to this and be happy, or possibly weirded out by the fact that every track they've ever produced seems to be in the same key and time signature. Back to list of music
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