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Wow. What a flawless 5 min minimix by everyone’s favorite Brazilian electronic duo, The Twelves. Microsampling done quite well. Fun stuff.

Cheers, Too Many Sebastians

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The Twelves – BBC Radio 1: 5 Min Minimix

Bonus:
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The Twelves – Nightvision (Daft Punk Cover)

Tracklist after the jump.

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Picture from clubsoda.fm

WOW. Speechless. Will 2009 be the year of Daft Punk?! Checkout Glenjamn’s sick videos from last night. So Thomas’ only did a 3 song set, “Rollin’ & Scratchin'”, DJ Mehdi’s “Signatune”, & Prince’s “Raspberry Beret”. STILL EPIC!!

UPDATE: Glenjamn was contacted by the Daft Camp requesting to take down the vids.
Videos after the jump!

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Meet Leonardus who brings old school French Touch sounding productions by way of the Netherlands. Dutch touch?!

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Leonardus – My Love

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Daft Punk – Face to Face (Leonardus Remix)

What a classic and about time pairing, Daft Punk, Disney and Tron, three pop culture institutions that evoke such nostalgia, childhood imagination and glee in everyone that experiences them. I have a feeling that the score is going to sound like their b-side track from Daft Club, “Ouverture”, a 70s tinged track that sounds like they are paying homage to Wendy Carlos, the famous organist/synthist that provided noises for The Shining and the score for the original Tron.

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Daft Punk – Ouverture

Billboard: Daft Punk Scores TR2N Soundtrack

UPDATE: FAKE. Some punk just made a lot of money off of people in Shanghai. Quite an elaborate scheme. Anyways. Sorry to get all of you excited. I’m just causing a ruckus in the blogosphere. Carry on.

UPDATE: Check out Glenjamn’s post on this situation. The web designer of dafthidden.com left a comment on his post. ha.

Daft Punk Not Playing in China This Weekend

dafthidden.com

Daft Punk – 2.13.2009 – Facebook Invite

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According to the The GRAMMYs twitter, Daft Punk has won 2 Grammys.

TheGRAMMYs Best Electronic/Dance Album: Alive 2007, Daft Punk

TheGRAMMYs Best Dance Recording: Harder Better Faster Stronger off Alive 2007, Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter & Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, producers

Victor & Pierre of Housse de Racket were kind enough to answer a few questions of mine to shed some light on the epic pop rock that they create. Find out how they are connected to Air, Phoenix, Gonzales & Sebastien Tellier. Great guys and hope to see them on American soil sometime soon.

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Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (25 Hours A Day Remix)
Houssee de Racket Myspace

Asian Dan Interview: Housse de Racket

1. Who is Housse de Racket? How would you describe your music?

We’re two guys who grew up in suburb of Paris, city of lights. We met when were teenagers at music school. Victor was wearing a Pearl Jam tee shirt and Pierre loved it.

We play stadium music in very small rooms.

2. What are your influences, musical or otherwise?

We love black music especially Stevie Wonder, Prince and (of course) Michael Jackson… but we cannot sing like them so we play very loud with huge distorsion on the guitar and a double kick drum.

3. The French Music scene is at quite a peak now, where do you see it going and are you guys going along for the ride?

We started playing music when Daft Punk, Air or even Phoenix started to raise. We considered them as (hidden) older brothers… So, it has always been part of our vision of the french music.
Now, Justice, Yelle, The Teenagers, Soko prove that something still happens in France.

We sing in french so we’re different from these bands. The past few months we realize that it’s not a problem anymore… We recently signed with a big english booking agency (Primary Talent) and we plan to play worldwide !

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Glenjamn captured Fake Blood’s magic with his Ninja Vid skills. Fake Blood is using 2 CDJ’s and Serato, quite an impressive DJ setup for one man. His little live edit of Tiga’s Mind Dimension is great which segues into his own edit of Soulwax’s version of Daft Punk’s Teachers. He cuts up the syllables in Teachers to “say” Fake Blood like he does in all his remixes/edits. So great. I can’t wait to hear more of Fake Blood in 2009, I can’t believe I just got into him these past few weeks. Better now then never.

I was talking to Glenjamn the other day saying that every DJ at Hard Haunted Mansion 2008 should have dressed as Daft Punk, just have a gang of Robots like in Electroma bum rush the stage and confuse everyone. And to answer peoples questions I think DJ Am is mixing edits that he made himself with Serato, so he isn’t just playing the Alive 2007 CD. And to everyone that is hating on him for doing this, c’mon don’t we all want to be Daft Punk and how can he pass up an opportunity to dress up as Daft Punk and play for thousands of people.

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