Daft punk just know how to work electronics.. harder..better ... faster
they were way ahead of the game.. I like their stuff, but a lot of it goes deep beyond the preset side of samplers etc. that's the way to get ahead of the game, well was. It's like things like time stretching.. pitch shifting , running synth filters over sounds etc once one group had done it , you got a shed load more doing the same effects. controlling the sampler filters via pitch bend etc.
they don't just sample ONE thing and modify it once, they probably mangle up the sounds big time at different pitches etc.. Reason I say that is when their first 2 albums were out, a lot of the stuff we take for granted wasn't possible as easy back then. Going back some hhm 7-8 years now I guess.
some of the pioneers in drum n bass were the same, the samplers etc were far more limited, so the trick was to work the hardware, output the mangled up version to dat, then bring that back into the sampler.
although kayne west uses their song, it just shows the original is far better.
I used to use a thing called "scrubber" years ago for pitch shifting breaks.. I'd mess with the break in time,then output, then re-sample it, then rechop the slices in recycle.. long winded but the results of doing lab-coat sessions to the end result make a world of difference.
now all that stuff can be done in realtime without so much effort.. (I better stop talking about the good old days, when studio stuff was over priced and I couldn't afford it
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as for the videos.. well the original was best.. rest were poor imitations.