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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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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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July 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Disclosure: Settle

Disclosure Settle Interscope Records/Universal Disclosure is a British electronica duo, brothers Guy (22) and Howard (19) Lawrence. I mention their ages because – well – I’m impressed with the range of sounds on this album, their debut. There’s a depth here that shows the brothers have embraced enough about music and technology from their lifetime […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Daft Punk, Dance, dance music, Disclosure, Electronica, Homework, House, Settle ·

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February 20, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1612

Daft Punk, Discovery (2001) I’m not sure why I have this – or why I have retained this because it was the death of Daft Punk for me. For a long time. They eventually redeemed themselves with the Tron: Legacy soundtrack but this was a sad album as a follow-up to Homework. Man, I loved […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 2001, cheese, Chicago house, Daft Punk, disco, Discovery, double-album, Homework, LP, post-disco, Something About Us, Tron: Legacy soundtrack, Vinyl ·

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