There’s a bed room producer in each international famous person, and even the long-lasting Daft Punk aren’t any exception.
It seems that the legendary robots particularly might have been harbingers for the broader bed room producer phenomenon. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter not too long ago confirmed that two of the duo’s groundbreaking albums, Homework and Discovery, had been each recorded by humble means.
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Speaking with the BBC’s Matt Everitt on “The First Time…” podcast, Bangalter confirmed the longstanding rumor to be true.
“Homework and Discovery were done in the bedroom, in the same flat as I was watching [TV show] Modern Times and we had [Stevie Wonder’s album] Songs in the Key of Life constantly on the turntables,” Bangalter stated. “This small bedroom, [and] my parents had given me this small boombox for my 11th birthday, a JVC boombox with a little graphic equalizer, and I kept this thing. One day when we plugged in a few keyboards and samplers, I found that boombox and I put it on the stack of machines. And that little boombox is what we mixed and recorded both Homework and Discovery on. That was the magic one.”
The unconventional transfer for the time saved Daft Punk and their label 1000’s on studio prices, engineering and extra whereas nonetheless yielding two of digital music’s most timeless works within the style’s historical past.
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