For those who didn’t see it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUikWh7lOcw

The first min is kinda nifty with the pads but my question is...at 2:40 when Daft comes out, what the heck are those touch screens?  It looks like ones playing the beat and the other is editing the looping vocals on the fly..is that for real or just for show?

A pic of their pyramid set up, are those the nifty screen displays, am I wrong?
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Ah I just answered my own question with some googling.  Indeed its a touch screen controller, might be old news for some.. sorry if it is.

JazzMutant Lemur’s

http://newecho.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/kanye-west-play.html

I totally forgot this even happened. I was out of town all weekend then at Sasha/Three Sunday night. Those screens are pretty nice.

I dig the pyramid; alas, I missed DP when they performed in Montreal.

Anybody else find it ironic that Kanye West won ‘Best Solo Rap Performance’ for this track when it’s a collaboration with Daft Punk/Bangalter & Guy-Man’s hook and contribution that MAKES the track?  Does the fact that they’re performing behind him not sort of tip people off to the fact?

In 2001 when I saw the music videos for ‘One More Time’, ‘Aerodynamic’, ‘Digital Love’, and ‘HBFS’ on MTV, I had these grand dreams of Thomas and Guy-Man walking onto the set of TRL in their robot costumes to the screams of the audience, people realizing the quality of their music and electronic music getting some of the recognition it deserves.

It has to come to the masses via this man:

”You made a conscious effort to shape Graduation for the next level of mainstream success? A conscious effort to take it to the next level in every form of success. More black people bought this album than any I’ve made.

Does that make sense to you? Uh-huh. Because I made the album blacker.

You think Graduation is blacker than The College Dropout? Way blacker. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”—how hood is that record? “Good Life” is straight Steve Harvey, all day long. “Flashing Lights”? I never had a record that was that black. But it’s white at the same time. Certain things are so good it doesn’t have to be white or black. That’s what Graduation is. Take “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.” It’s a white sample, but everything I do to it is to make it as black as possible. So I’ma make the bass as black as possible; I’ma make the lyrics as intense as possible.

Are these choices strictly artistic, or are you thinking as a marketer, too? Can you separate those roles? I can’t. I’m a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold’s for fried chicken. It’s all these things at once, because, as a tastemaker, I find the best of everything. There’s certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I’ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don’t want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don’t want my credit to look black.

Some of the samples—Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T.”—must not have been cheap. Could you have afforded them on the first two albums? I’ll tell you one thing, as a black person: We have no problem breaking ourselves for what we want. But it’s not just affording it; it’s getting people to want to clear something for you.”

I can say with pretty good certainty that Daft Punk set out just to make ‘music’.  Maybe it’s better they don’t associate with MTV.

DB

At first I was laughing with a few people because I figured they were mashing at arbitrary touchscreen interfaces that don’t actually do anything.

Then I was humbled as I discovered they were Lemurs.

HOWEVER, i’ve watched the performance a good 60 times now, and I’m still pretty positive whatever interface they were using was just to impress the rubes, at that point, because there’s quite a few times where Bangalter multipoint mashes and there’s no discernable effect.

That being said, they are french, and they are absolute fucking mutants, so maybe it is doing *something*.

Oh well. Not bad for their first televised performance.

Most of Daft’s shows are pre-recorded/mixed… so its unlikely that they were controlling on the fly, however, they may have been adding effects with the touch screen on the fly… if you watch the grammy performance that’s what it looks like anyways. at first I thought it was a Kaoss pad v5 or something heh

Is it just me or did Kanye West fuck up something perfectly good by trying to “make it as black as possible?” What kind of bullshit is this racist dipshit doing?  I can’t wait for Tucker Carlson to get his hands on B.B. King’s last album.  Go on, you hacks, ride them coat-tails for all they’re worth!

I have no solid basis with which to make the following statement but I’m told by a friend who was told by a friend who was told by a friend etc.. that the powers that be are quite strict on timings of performances so I’d imagine that the touch screens were just to add effects.

Still though, those things are pretty sexy (at first I thought it was a kaos pad as well). Their set up is pretty insane too.

My personal opinion on Mr. West is College Dropout was tops. Late Registration had it’s moments. Graduation could’ve just been a bunch of singles released on a one-off, for all I care.

What do you know JazzMutant just updated their site with a shout out to Daft…
http://www.jazzmutant.com/news.php#daft

I agree with most of the comments about how annoying Kanye is, however… I have progressively enjoyed each album release more than the last, but mostly for the beats.

Agreed, Marshall. College Dropout was brilliant, but his debut-level ego is all that I can stand. I can’t handle anything after that. Granted, I really never even took a listen to anything from the other albums because of that fact. Oh well..
The performance tells me I shouldn’t regret it; I think he brutally murdered what is a fantastic track on its own Maybe Kanye just delivered a bit too heavy for the live show? idk, but it just doesn’t appeal to me…

oh yeah, and the Lemur pads look insane : ))))
makes me wish a) that i had a crapload of money, and b) that I had time to play around with stuff like that.
And I second that being MTV, i wouldn’t be surprised if it were just for show, even though i’m assuming DP have good credibility as far as their own live shows go…

I just want the outfit he had on with the glasses.