Word: daft
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Machines plus hip-hop often equals awesome. Kanye West set the precedent in 2007 with his take on Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” and the Expressions Dance Company took it from there at “Ex-Static” on Saturday night in Lowell Lecture Hall. But even the best of machines can get a bit rusty (especially in sub-zero weather) and require a little engine grease to get rolling.Expressions is a dance company that encourages and thrives on audience participation, and one of the ways it does...
...French culture [Dec. 3]. But there are plenty of emerging French artists, especially on the pop- and dance-music scene: David Guetta and Bob Sinclar both released international hit songs this year, albeit with Anglo-Saxon singers. Over the past 10 years, electronic groups from France such as Daft Punk (whom Kanye West sampled on his recent hit Stronger) and Air have met with similar success. French rap is thriving too - in fact, the rap market in France is the second biggest after the U.S. Graham Clark, KEIGHLEY, ENGLAND...
...fact that electronica duo Daft Punk has recorded a live album called “Alive 2007” begs two questions. One: why should we care about their bleep-blooping in general? And two: what’s the point of a live electronica album, besides pointing out the performance’s inherent irony? (Yeah, we get it: you’re two humans making “live” robot music. That’s funny.) With regard to the first question: because they’re popular and they’ve affected popular culture...
...doddered down to the lobby for a complimentary breakfast and a second rude awakening. My illusions of Paris were quickly shattered during that meal: not only by the stale croissant, but by the horrors of MTV France.I had arrived in the patrie of Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, and Daft Punk—and in the summer of Justice, no less, the Parisian duo whose “D.A.N.C.E.” was omnipresent in America at the time of my departure. This was the land of baguettes and Bizet, and I, a professed Francophile, was gagging down processed pastry...
...last three quarters is mildly disturbing, but start the song over and everything’s alright again. Grade: B Kanye West – “Stronger” Even though the song it samples is only three years old; even though the idea of sampling Daft Punk should not have survived “Touch It”; even though the execrable Mark Ronson talks all over the only mp3 of it I can find; I still enjoy this song. Kanye’s on some mid-1970s David Bowie shit–he doesn?...