Daft Punk Release 10th Anniversary Edition Of Iconic Album 'Random Access Memories'
Featuring over 35 minutes of unreleased music, this anniversary edition reveals Daft Punk's creative process and allows fans to listen in real-time as they work through creating some of the most popular songs from the last decade.
To celebrate ten years of their influential album Random Access Memories, Daft Punk have released a special anniversary edition featuring over 35 minutes of unreleased music.
Spanning across nine tracks, the band have revealed a select number of demos, outtakes and unfinished tracks that showcase the creative process of the dynamite duo. Fans can listen to the bones of each song before the band worked their magic and turned them into some of the biggest hits of the last century.
The first single on the album, released in March, is aptly titled The Writing Of Fragments Of Time, and you can hear Thomas Bangalter and Todd Edwards chatting together, working through the complexities of the song released song Fragments Of Time, and humming along to see what works. Listen to it below.
Also featured on this b-side phenomenon is the starting point of Get Lucky and Lose Yourself To Dance, where the band work through the catchy sonic elements of both songs and lay the bed for Pharell to come in and do his thing.
An early demo of Infinity Crush, titled Infinity Repeating, is also included, which demonstrates clearly the massive changes that took place between the demo and the final cut.
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The 10th-anniversary edition will also be available across various formats, including 3 LPs, 2 CDs, and streaming platforms. Additionally, a spatial audio (Atmos) mix of the original album will be made available for the first time.
Random Access Memories was released in 2013 and quickly became a defining album for the creative duo. It was the band's only album to even reach number on the Billboard 100 Chart and won them several GRAMMY's at the 2014 award show. Random Access Memories was their fourth and final album before they disbanded and officially announced their retirement in 2021.
You can purchase the vinyl format of the 10th-anniversary edition of Random Access Memories here.
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Tracklist
Give Life Back To Music
The Game of Love
Giorgio by Moroder
Within
Instant Crush
Lose Yourself To Dance
Touch
Get Lucky
Beyond
Motherboard
Fragments of Time
Doin’ it Right
Contact
Horizon (Japan CD)
GLBTM (Studio Outtakes)
Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo)
GL (Early Take)
Prime (2012 Unfinished)
LYTD (Vocoder Tests)
The Writing of Fragments of Time
Touch (2021 Epilogue)
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