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Many songs from Human After All: Remixes are utilized, like Robot Rock (Maximum Overdrive Mix) and The Prime Time of Your Life (Para One Remix).Īlive 2007 was generally met with praise upon release. The encore of the Alive 2007 set features Bangalter's side projects: Stardust's " Music Sounds Better with You" and Together's self-titled track " Together". Also featured are elements of Gabrielle's " Forget About the World", the original version of which was remixed by Daft Punk for her single. The album includes elements of the Busta Rhymes song " Touch It", the original version of which was produced by Swizz Beatz featuring a sample of " Technologic".
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The introduction for the live show featured the five-note sequence used in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". "The goal was to try and bring a complete global experience to the audience". Bangalter explained that the 2006 sets were initially designed for performances within larger festivals, but later refined to accommodate Daft Punk-specific shows. Noted additions include elements of the tracks " Burnin'" and " Phoenix" as well as an encore. The performances for the Alive 2007 tour were an expansion of Daft Punk's 2006 live sets. The final digital video streams ran to LED screens." Then they could use Catalyst to coordinate the video with lighting effects and add their own effects in on the fly. Using the eight-core Mac Pros, we were able to take in eight digital sources and treat them as video streams. "They wanted to mix live video with effects. "They came to us with a pretty fixed idea of what they wanted", said the head of XL Video, Richard Burford. Daft Punk approached the company with their visual concept for the shows.
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The company provided eight-core Mac Pro units running Catalyst v4 and Final Cut Pro. The visuals of the 2006 and Alive 2007 tour were set up by XL Video. The performances heavily featured tracks from Daft Punk's album Human After All, prompting critics to reconsider what they felt about the album. The set itself was considered a collection of Daft Punk's most popular recordings. The overlapped mixtures of " Television Rules the Nation" with " Crescendolls", " Around the World" with " Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and " Superheroes" with " Human After All" were reported to be well received by the audience. One report spotted vocal elements from the song " Too Long" mixed with newly-generated accompaniment. Reviews of the set noted how Daft Punk manipulated and reworked their established material.
The recording of Alive 2007 was derived from Daft Punk's live performance at their Bercy show on June 14, 2007. The majority of the equipment was stored away during the live sets within offstage towers. The four Voyager units and two Behringer mixers allowed Daft Punk to "mix, shuffle, trigger loops, filter, distort samples, EQ in and out, transpose or destroy and deconstruct synth lines". Minimoog Voyager RME units were also implemented for the live performances.
Daft Punk accessed the hardware remotely with Behringer BCR2000 MIDI controllers and JazzMutant Lemur touchscreen pads within the central pyramid.
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The Alive 2007 set used Ableton Live software on "custom made super-computers" for the show. It also includes a 50-page book containing photographs from the tour taken by DJ Falcon.
A special edition of the album was released that includes the encore from the Alive 2007 tour on a second disc, which is included on the digital copy as well.
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The physical release in North America was delayed to December 4 due to production issues, but the album became available as a digital download on November 20, 2007. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2009.Ī live version of " Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", containing elements of "Television Rules the Nation / Crescendolls" and "Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger", also won a Grammy that year for Best Electronic/Dance Recording. It features live songs from their performance at Bercy in Paris, France, on their Alive 2007 tour. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Daft Punk chronology 2006Īlive 2007 is a live album released by Daft Punk in 2007.