DAFT PUNK's RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES - Review

A two sided Monolith like this futuristic Long Player has never been made: A robotic but human tasting product that combines chilly funk, retro futurism, Dark Side of the Moon-ish psychedelica and a Kubrick'esque depth.

Maybe you like to listen to this LP while driving the highway along the seaside, wide open windows, to a California Vibe that even tickles your synesthesia in smelling and feeling the warm summer breeze. Songs like "Give Life Back to Music", "Loose Yourself to Dance", "Get Lucky" or "Fragments of Time" are the spine of this essence of giving music back to life, and your commemorative flashbacks to this summer in a year.

On the other hand, you have the darker side to it, the one of the far outer-space unknown to us, the dreamy, philosophical transformation from nothing to a consciousness full of appetite. It is the KUBRICK'S 2001 - A Space Odyssey Touch to it that gives this album besides its life-driven attitude also its depth and philosophy. Whether it is the sung by the robot's Cycle of Three "The Game Of Love", "Within" and "Beyond", or the epic "Touch", or the mysterious space odysseys "Motherboard" and "Contact".

All in for all, "Gorgio by Moroder" with its transgression from jazz, to electronica to orchestral and back is the coronation of DAFT PUNK's musical legacy. While naming almost every song so far on this album, it is to mention that "Instant Crush" and "Doin' It Right" are not less  touching the soul, whether it is for the emo one or the dancing & partying soul.

So after the underground revolution 909 of DAFT PUNK's HOMEWORK, their childhood re-experience in DISCOVERY, the technological angst-driven HUMAN AFTER ALL and the poetic search for becoming really human after all in ELECTROMA (movie), DAFT PUNK got even higher on the ladder of evolution by going one step back to the past and simultaneously one further to the future, the robot's voice became more human, the sound more elegant, the structure of human memories more plausible. The Super Heroes of Music - Thomas Bangalter and Manuel de Homem-Christo - call in the name of Maria (the robot of LANG's Metropolis), R2-D2 & C-3PO and HAL 9000 the Revolution of Dance, which it may not be already, but will be known (as I predict it) to be the groundwork of a new musical era. Live long and prosper!

"We see the new album as a surrealistic painting by René Magritte. You can see it as a joke. A guy with no face and an apple on the head."  - DAFT PUNK