The fact that it took 22 years for all the samples in Face To Face to get found really is a testament to Daft Punk's talent and skills in sampling. Great work to everyone who found the samples!
@mikemoss6045 that could be true but as one that help try to find some of these and found one (and hopefully) last sample in the 22 almost 23 years the album been out is incredible. If another search happens cause of another 1 sec sample it would be hard to find and would last almost forever
@yahallobenjamin2354 I hope that I'm not explaining this to someone who will just discard the notion entirely; but consider what it is they're actually doing here. They aren't just copying a section of a song and pasting it with no change. They're pulling apart the pieces of existing art, reimagining, altering and re-expressing those pieces in a new form, and building an entirely *new* vision. Consider the way they might make a new melody by chopping up and reorganizing an old one they've sampled. If the new melody is just a lazy copy of the old one, then are we to consider only the invention of that specific instruments sound to be creative, with all future creations with the instrument being mere copies? No, that would be ridiculous - learning to build a fundamentally unique song from the altered pieces of other songs isnt copy pasting, it's using *music itself* as an instrument with which to create new music. All forms of art are created with influences founded in the existing art that artist has experienced; art is never made in a vacuum devoid of comprehension of other art, and this is similar! Art inspires art; and the music they draw from has inspired new music into being the same as any other artist being inspired.
Sampling isn't lazy, but there is lazy sampling. Like when you take the base sample and do nothing with it except maybe one or two effects. For example: - Creative Sampling: Face to Face, Praise You, Frontier Psychiatrist - Lazy Sampling: I'm Good, Feel This Moment, Whatcha Say
Were they actually insane for using this many samples? Did they choose random songs from albums they had and try to make songs out of the songs they chose? It just blows my mind
Yess basically they sampled short parts of various records into their sampler (which was probably the Ensoniq ASR10), tuned them all to the same key and cut them all into bits to create the final arrangement. Todd Edwards says in a livestream that Thomas was the one who sat on the keyboard and fine-tuned everything.
Everyone better be thanking Todd Edwards in here cause he's the one that chops samples like this. He was called back to make "Fragments of Time" for the band as well.
HOW IN THE HOLY F*CK did you manage to substract ALL these details so meticulously?!? I don't know if people ACTUALLY realise the knowledge, the ear to details, the skill, etc this takes to put this all together (or disdect would be a better word maybe). I don't think you even realise yourself what your skill level is. And huge props to Daft Punk of course for imagining this out of thin air and thousands of old school music memories. Cheers man! EXCELLENT JOB
@@farter_snail bear in mind that it took 25 years for a large community of fans to find the samples and arrange them to remake a music that already existed. While Daft Punk created this from scratch in less than 4 years. Insanely talented musicians
you were the only one able to replicate the track exactly like the original track, it proves that I have to have a large random music bank to make music like this.
@@peoplepersonYeah, there's supposed to be a 16th-note shuffle on those Firefall samples, but these are all chopped to the grid on solid 16th-notes instead
the final chapter of a hunt that took us so long, the final chapter of daft punk sample hunting (unless burnin' has another sample? 🧐), mate your first face to face video got me interested in the song and now it comes full circle
A masterclass of music production, to have all these samples used and for the song to still sound cohesive is insane! To think this was done in 2000 too!
It was *released in 2000, but the track itself could have been produced as early as 1998 and this was also done on hardware that was up to (and over) a decade old at that time
@@Aia_ttsd Both. They had several drum machines and they had MicroLogic on a Mac. They also made use of their samplers, which were routed through one of two sequencers they had named in their gear list.
live reacting because if they found the chase sample i'll be so happy yeah we all know evil woman is in it shit this is a great recreation HOLY SHIT THE CHASE SAMPLE HOLY SHIT THE CHASE SAMPLE OH MY GOD THEY ACTUALLY FOUND IT!!!!! Wow i cant bleive it was alan parsons, the project knew abt that album's involvement so early too i cant believe it eluded everyone for so long
2:58 it took me until here to realize the song did not start with all 12 of those samples playing on top of each other at the same time and you were just showing the section of the song the sample was used from, and then where it was used 😂 I was just absolutely astounded at first that they managed to play 10 songs on top of each other with minor edits and make it sound good (i havent heard the daft punk song in a long time so i dont remember how it starts. only the hooks)
The use of sampled percussion for such a simple pattern they could’ve used a 707 or linn drums on speaks to their respect for entirely human made music, and that specific sample being so hard to replicate and how long it took to identify speaks to just how important and unique live instrumentation is
Back in 97 when I was 10, I saved up whatever money I got to buy Homework. After all these years and many ablums later, it still blows my mind how great they are/were. One of the best artists of all time
My jaw is on the floor. Incredible. Incredible video and breakdown, incredible work by the artists themselves. What am i doing with my brain? Gotta rethink life guys, sorry.
3:31 ngl the recreation sounds better then the original. I dont know why. Theres just some kinda of extra energy in the recreation that isnt in the original
He said in the recent video that it was Thomas on the keyboard (which was hooked up to the sampler) and that Thomas did all the fine-tuning to the samples
@@kwiky5643 Probably depends on the project. Thomas says there's practically no ego involved, he and Guy-Man just kind of do whatever and work around the material they've got. Or at least the past tense, since now they're done as Daft Punk
I am happy to be the witness of this research that took this long. Genuinely, this might be not the most important event on the planet Earth but it is nonetheless an important event for musicians and sample hunters
dude thank you so much! I really want to learn this style of sampling so this will be excellent study material! Would anyone have other recommendations to learn more of Todd Edwards style of sampling?
It's referred to as "micro-sampling" so if you're looking for other examples, just use this term and you'll be sure to find MANY examples. Pop Culture by Madeon is a good example, but there are a lot more
Hey man that is awesome!! Honestly blown away by Daft Punk/Todd Edwards and your work to put the samples together. Can you please upload a YT vid of the song playing from start to finish because hearing it in raw form sounds really good. Do you have any spotify or soundcloud where you've uploaded an mp3 version? I've never used Ableton so can't download the Ableton file to listen to it's full audio
i just wanted it to be as close as possible to the original. I know many of you are way to anal about the cuts and stuff, but since this kind of videos can't be monetized, it's not worth the extra time. I only do it for fun.
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