Daft Punk Imagining

A few weeks ago, Daft Punk put out the first of two teasers ahead of their May album Random Access Memories. God damn if it wasn't funky - a really organic, warm groove. What does the rest of it sound like? Where does it go from here? For lack of a full song to listen to, I decided to imagine it for myself, just for fun - trying to meld my feeling for Daft Punk's sensibilities with my own musical tendencies.
  Over the last year or so, there have been various rumors about Daft Punk working with Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder and other classic dance music luminaries. The first snippet is no doubt Nile Rodgers, the way he dances around the chords - chunking and interpolating at once. Intimidating to say the least. As I sat down and got the most Nile-like Stratocaster tone I could make, I just couldn't quite figure out what he was doing, so I called in an expert.

 James Hart is one of my best friends going back to our days growing up in Pittsburgh, and it just so happens that he is a bit of a guitar savant himself. He is one of the lead singers and song-writers in The Harlan Twins - a sort of Progressive Americana rock outfit that is bumping up against the Pittsburgh scene's glass ceiling - the go-to local opener for Wilco inclined big venue acts.

 James was able to improve the chops and he got in the lab with Pete aka Nice Rec - a producer with credits as diverse as Wiz Khalifa and Pittsburgh Track Authority. We worked out the Rhodes electric piano lines, and just like that, we had our groove. Everything from then on out was mostly a thought experiment - melding our touches and tendencies with some respectful sketches of Daft-esque sounds and structures. The result?
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El Chiflado

Here's a little Peruvian gem Platurn recently unearthed...

One of the scores down in Lima over the holidays (was pretty beat -- cleaned it up as best as possible). Don't know anything about its origins but Chic is spelled Chick and it's obviously a cover albeit the music is very close to the original, sens the lazy drawl of the female vocals which is all kinds of awesome.

Despite its overpopularity, i've always been a fan of this song and I love hearing alternates done in other countries (put a Cantonese? one on the OZ mix from last year -- check 47:50 right here.

You find these types of disco covers quite frequently when abroad and I dig 'em every time. Tells you a lot about the quality/equipment that specific countries adhered to at the time and it's always interesting to trip off of which songs they chose to cover (always great when it's something super random that was never even popular in the states).

More to come including a mini mix soon! Stay tuned and enjoy.

Chick -- El Chiflado by platurn

I'm In Love

I wanted to share this Joey Negro edit of an Italian disco rarity, that is often mistaken for a lost Chic track by anyone that hears it. Writer and producer Marty Celay is the man behind the Cela alias and unfortunately, I could not track down a credit for whoever the sultry lady/ladies is/are behind the lush vocals. Marty and friends really nail down that distinct American disco sound arguably perfected by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.

That all said, Joey Negro really made this good track into something stellar by reworking the intro; slightly extending it and making it instrumental; the first minute or so of the original features some questionable call & response vocals that sound downright annoying when compared with the edit posted here.

Cela - I'm In Love (Joey Negro Edit)
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