Ten years ago, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories gave life back to music. The world-beating smash “Get Lucky” broke streaming records, forged a retro sound that still dominates the charts, and paved the way for artists like The Weeknd, Dua Lipa and Lizzo to craft their own throwback hits. How did Daft Punk do it? Switched On Pop’s four part-mini series Listening 2: Daft Punk unlocks the sounds, voices, and stories across all four of the group’s studio albums. On their first album, Homework, Daft Punk stretched the boundaries of electronic music and began wiring the circuits that would become their robot alter-egos, asking a fundamental question: where does the human end and the machine begin?

Songs Discussed

​​Daft Punk - Give Life Back to Music

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

The Beach Boys - Darlin'

Daft Punk - Around the World

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Strong

Daft Punk - Robot Rock

Daft Punk - Game of Love

Daft Punk - Da Funk

Daft Punk - Teachers

Black Box - Ride on Time

Daft Punk - Daftendirekt

Daft Punk - Fresh

Daft Punk - High Fidelity

Daft Punk - Oh Yeah

Daft Punk - Phoenix

Daft Punk - Rollin' & Scratchin'

Daft Punk - Rock'n Roll

Daft Punk - Burnin'

Kraftwerk - The Robots

Vangelis - Main Titles

Brad Fiedel - Main Title - The Terminator

Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test

Daft Punk - TRON Legacy (End Titles)

Daft Punk - Indo Silver Club




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