![]() ![]() The album was more than two years in the making, spread out over five years, and the result of this gargantuan investment of money, time and effort is that Random Access Memories is, even when heard in lo-res digital formats, arguably the best-sounding album of the 21st Century so far. Seven figures is, by any standard, a staggering amount of money to spend on the creation of an album, and directly challenges the music industry's current cheese-paring business model. Peter Franco (left) with Mick Guzauski during the recording of Random Access Memories at Henson Studios. ![]() RAM is one of the best engineered records in many years,” and "It sounds like a million dollars.” The latter comment was written before Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter admitted in a post-album release interview in Rolling Stone that he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, had, in fact, spent more than that. ![]() Mainstream music press reviewers rarely comment on production, but they have made an exception for RAM, gushing "It's all rendered with an amazing level of detail, with no expense spared. Most of all, there's the way in which RAM was made and consequently sounds. The marketing campaign was one case in point, and it has also been noted that the album is an "all-out war on the current single-song consumption model”, with iTunes streaming the entire album as one body of work before its release, and Daft Punk refusing to tour the album, preferring to allow their studio handiwork to speak for itself. What's more, Random Access Memories sees Daft Punk throwing down the gauntlet at the entire music industry, challenging almost all current preconceptions about the way in which music is made and how to present and sell it. Indeed, its impact is so strong that there's already talk of it becoming one of the best-selling albums of the decade. Mick Guzauski and Peter Franco were with them all the way.įollowing one of the most ingenious, expensive and lengthy album marketing campaigns in living memory, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories looks set to become the best-selling album of the year. Relive Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’ below.Daft Punk spent four years and over a million dollars on their quest to revisit the golden age of record production. has now become a piece of music history and one of the most sought-after physical albums of the last decade, with millions of copies sold worldwide. As their final full-length project together, R.A.M. It would later go on to win five Grammy awards, including two of the “Big Four” in Album of The Year and Record of The Year. Featuring tracks such as ‘Get Lucky’ and ‘Doin It Right,’ the project cemented Daft Punk’s place in the mainstream spotlight. ‘Random Access Memories’ was released on May 17th, 2013, and quickly became one of the duo’s most commercially successful albums. One of the unique features of this purchase was that an additional 10-inch 33 1/3 vinyl came with the box that featured a two-part interview from Daft Punk about the album. Also in the box were two USB memory sticks in the form of Daft Punk’s iconic triangle emblem that features wav. The ‘Random Access Memories’ vinyl came as a deluxe limited edition box set and included the LP and full-length album. With a selling price of $2,500, it tied for the most expensive electronic item on the list alongside The Legendary Pink Dots’ and Bequeen’s, ‘Der Aussiedler – 4 Years After.’ ‘Random Access Memories,’ the legendary 2013 project from Daft Punk, was just recently reported in a list by Discogs as having a special edition vinyl print sell as one of the most expensive items on the site’s marketplace for all of January. Even a year after their split, the Daft Punk brand has not lost any steam as a vinyl printing of one of their most revered albums recently sold for a very high price on Discogs. ![]()
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