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June 29, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Neither Daft Nor Punk

Earlier in the year it was announced that French electronic music duo Daft Punk is calling it a day after 28 years.I’m sure on some level they’ll be back. But if they’re not it was a good run with some great music. I liked a lot of it. Not all of it. But I gave […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Blog, Daft Punk, Dance, dance music, Discovery, Electronica, French, Homework, House, Human After All, Neither Daft Nor Punk, Random Access Memories, Robots, Soundtrack, Techno, Tron: Legacy, Tron: Legacy soundtrack ·

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April 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Squarepusher: Lamental EP

Squarepusher Lamental EP Warp Records As Squarepusher, British composer, producer and musician Tom Jenkinson has spent the last quarter century making wonderful music in a variety of styles all under the same guise. From IDM and techno to live instrumentation – including his own solo bass lamentations – the Squarepusher brand is the home of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, John Carpenter, Lamental EP, Skrillex, Squarepusher, Squarepusher: Lamental EP, Warp, Warp Records, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen – “En-Tact”

Barriers of entry. You just need to dive in – mostly. But sometimes it helps if you’re there at the right time. And with anything dance-music related I feel that’s most certainly the case, for the most part anyway. I love a lot of Daft Punk’s music because I hear it always thinking about how I heard […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged # 122, 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums To, 1001 Albums To Hear Before You Die, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1990, 1990s, 90s, Daft Punk, Dance, En-Tact, England, KLF, Nineties, Primal Scream, Rave, Scottish, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen - “En-Tact”, The KLF, The Shamen, The Shamen - “En-Tact”, UK ·

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February 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sebastien Tellier: A Girl Is A Gun (Music From The Original Series)

Sebastien Tellier A Girl Is A Gun (Music From The Original Series) Record Makers I have no idea about the TV series – but I’ll give it a chance now that I’ve heard its soundtrack. I’d listen to any movie or TV soundtrack by the prolific and multi-talented Sebastien Tellier. He sings in English, French and Italian, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], A Girl Is A Gun, A Girl Is A Gun (Music From The Original Series), Album Review, Confection, Daft Punk, Denise Richards, L'Aventura, Music From The Original Series, My God Is Blue, Retro, Sebastien Tellier: A Girl Is A Gun, Sebastien Tellier: A Girl Is A Gun (Music From The Original Series), Sexuality, Soundtrack, Synth, TV, TV Show, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 547

Daft Punk, Homework (1997) I’ve loved this album since it was released. It arrived on the scene just as I had started my first job in music retail; we had an advance copy of it – back in the days when that was still a thing. And we’d play it over and again on the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1997, Daft Punk, Homework, LP, Record, Teachers, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 547, Vinyl ·

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May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life

I recently posted this – a list of “Ten important metal albums”. And I started it off by linking to this – “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I mentioned then that I would be doing a series of these, across genres, and I repeated the opening paragraph from the hip-hop post. So now I’m going to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Andrew Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Blue Lines, Daft Punk, Dance, Depeche Mode, Dorfmeister, Drukqs, Electronica, Hometown, Kid A, Kruder, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Leftfield, Leftism, Little Fluffy Clouds, Mad Professor, Massive Attack, Maxinquaye, Mezzanine, Nearly God, No Protection, Pre-Millennium Tension, Primal Scream, Protection, Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s), Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life, Screamadelica, Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi, Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life, The K&D Sessions, The Orb, The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Thievery Corp., Thievery Corporation, Tricky ·

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July 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Paul Williams (July 22, Las Vegas)

Paul Williams South Point Showroom at South Point Hotel Casino, Las Vegas; NV Friday, July 22 In the 1970s Paul Williams was suddenly a giant superstar – as he’d stacked all he could up against his diminutive stature. If it seemed like overnight success it was hard fought, a failed film career and then one […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged America, Barbra Streisand, Carpenters, Casino, Daft Punk, Friday, Gig Review, Gig Review: Paul Williams (July 22, July 22, Las Vegas, Live, Live Gig, Love Boat, Nevada, Old Fashioned Love Song, Paul Williams, Rainbow Connection, Showroom, South Point, Southpoint, U.S.A ·

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Daft Punk – Unchained: DVD

Daft Punk – Unchained Director: Herve Martin-Delpierre BBC Worldwide Productions An interesting, and worthy documentary that traces Daft Punk’s music and antics back to the start, in fact back to the pre-robot days when, in an early review of their shoegazer-ish group, they were written off as making “daft punk”. So, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged BBC, Daft Punk, Daft Punk - Unchained: DVD, Daft Punk Unchained, dance music, Discovery, Doc, Documentary, Duo, DVD Review, Film, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo, Herve Martin-Delpierre, Homework, Human After All, Music Doco, Random Access Memories, Techno, Thomas Bangalter, Tron: Legacy, UnchainedD ·

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September 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Giorgio Moroder: Déjà Vu

Giorgio Moroder Déjà Vu RCA It’d be nice I reckon if this actually was a case of genuine déjà vu; reminder of what the great Giorgio Moroder once was and sounded like. Instead this is anything else – on its quest to be everything else. This is one of those grotesque and totally unnecessary reputation-sullying […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Britney Spears, Daft Punk, Deja Vu, Donna Summer, Ghastly, Giorgio Moroder, Kelis, Kylie Minogue, Moroder ·

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March 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Giorgio Moroder: One NZ Show (March, 2015)

Frontier Touring has just announced a headline show by Giorgio Moroder. The pioneering musician made his name across the disco and electronic music genres, as producer, songwriter, arranger and as soundtrack composer and collaborator. Moroder produced the huge hits for Donna Summer, created the enduring soundtracks for Scarface, Flashdance and American Gigolo and, er, The […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 2015, Auckland, Daft Punk, disco, DJ, DJ Set, Gig Announcement, Giorgio Moroder, Giorgio Moroder: One NZ Show (March, March 27, Moroder, Murray Cammick, One NZ Show, Producer, Soundtrack, Synth, The Studio ·

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September 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Chromeo: White Women

Chromeo White Women Big Beat/Wea David Macklovitch (Dave 1) and Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg) are back with album number four as Chromeo and the deconstructed disco and playful yacht-rock tropes are still happening. This is chic – and sometimes very nearly with a capital ‘c’ – particularly on the Daft Punk-aping Over Your Shoulder; actually it’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Chic, Chromeo, Daft Punk, Dave 1, David Macklovitch, P-Thugg, Patrick Gemayel, Random Access Memories, Too Slow To Disco, White Women ·

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April 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Shackleton: Freezing Opening Thawing

Shackleton Freezing Opening Thawing  (ep) Woe To The Septic Heart Sam Shackleton returns with this three-track EP and the opener, the title track, bursts into life with darting lines. This is his first EP in nearly two years. And he seems to have found a bunch of new sounds to play with – but still […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Dubstep, EP, Freezing Opening Thawing (ep), Freezing Thawing Opening, Sam Shackleton, Shackleton, Silver Keys, Techno, White Flower With Silvery Eye ·
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