There Is New Music From Daft Punk On The Way

Rolling Stone - DAFT PUNK, THE defunct, dome-headed dance duo, are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their final album, Random Access Memories, by reissuing the album with 35 minutes of previously unreleased music across nine tracks. The expanded edition of the album will be available on double-CD and triple-LP, and it will be available to stream and download on May 12. The album will also be available for the first time in an Atmos mix.

Some of the bonus material includes an “early take” of “Get Lucky,” the track they wrote with Nile Rodgers that also featured Pharrell Williams, studio outtakes of “Give Life Back to Music,” vocoder tests from “Lose Yourself to Dance” and “The Writing of ‘Fragments of Time,'” a track that featured Todd Edwards. The bonus material ends with “Touch (2021 Epilogue),” which soundtracked their farewell video a couple of years back. Its chorus goes, “Hold on, love is the answer.”

Holy shit is this awesome and unexpected news. 

If you don't like Daft Punk you have a giant dump in your pants. They've made some of the greatest electronic music of all time and before you say "fuck electronic music", they've managed to bridge the gap by collaborating with some of the greatest musicians ever to infuse their sound, vocals, AND instruments into their work.

We're talking Niles Rogers, Giorgio Maroder, Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Weeknd, Julian Casablancas, Pharrell, and Paul Williams to name a few.

Yes, Random Access Memories may haven't have been what casual fans had been hoping for, but it was still an amazing release that featured some timeless records -

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So the fact we're getting a 2013 demo track, a bunch of outtakes, an unfinished song from 2012, and an earlier version of GL (amongst others) is enough to give me a half-chub. 2023 is already shaping up to be worthwhile music-wise.

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Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Track List:

1. ”Give Life Back to Music”
2. “The Game of Love”
3. “Giorgio by Moroder”
4. “Within”
5. “Instant Crush”
6. “Lose Yourself to Dance”
7. “Touch”
8. “Get Lucky”
9. “Beyond”
10. “Motherboard”
11. “Fragments of Time”
12. “Doin’ it right”
13. “Contact”
14. “Horizon (Japan CD)
15. “GLBTM” (Studio Outtakes)
16. “Infinity Repeating” (2013 Demo)
17. “GL” (Early Take)
18. “Prime” (2012 Unfinished)
19. “LYTD” (Vocoder Tests)
20. “The Writing of Fragments of Time”
21. “Touch” (2021 Epilogue)