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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Music sounds better with you, 3 Oct 2001
By A Customer
ALIVE 1997 is a live recording from Daft Punk's successful DaftenDirekt Tour following the release of their luminary debut album 'Homework'.
As previously previewed on their DVD- 'D.A.F.T: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes' and featured in lower quality on their web venture 'DaftClub', the music is more than a mixing of album tracks but a furious live performance. Elements of rapturous cries from the audience, frenetic live looping, cuttings and samplings of album tracks such as WDPK and Rollin' & Scratchin are spliced blisteringly fast. Armand Van Helden's '10 minute funk mix' of 'Da Funk' 7mins 29secs in, being a noteable highlight. I mention the time as the CD has no track distinctions. Such astounding live mixing has only been equalled by dance music contemporaries such as 'Orbital' and 'The Chemical Brothers'. Like these contemporaries, Daft Punk rebuild tracks to audience electrifying crescendos, using detroit acid house inspired techno squeals or distorted Roland 909 samplers whilst simultaneously working in drum sequences and adding their now recognisable trait of french disco filtering. It's no wonder that like 'The Chemical Brothers' and 'Orbital' it takes two of them!
The only let downs being it's length as it clocks in at just above 45 minutes and the age of the material. However this is an excellent CD definately that should not be confined to the bargain bins of Summer dance compilations as the highly unique live reworking of 'Homework' tracks and remixes is worthy of being seen as original material in it's own light. All this makes it an essential purchase for Daft Punk fanatics and fans of dance music in general.Satish
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
fantastic live set full of techno tweekin of fav daft tracks, 19 Oct 2001
By A Customer
fantastic vibe from crowd , daft at there best , after the indie-organic tech sound of the debut homework release , this tour must have been so good , wish i had seen it, chemical brothers are the live act kings , but daft punk are the french and funked version, didnt know these guys could use live sampler's so well, and they push the crowd with some harder beats aswell, wish there was more than 45 mins tho. love it , if you love the daft sound , this is daft , harder, live, and sweaty.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Daft Punk - They way they were - and should be remembered, 5 Oct 2001
Homework was one of those albums. It's up there among the greats. Having been a huge fan fan (both live and and recorded) since then, I was more than a wee bit dissapointed with Discovery. Call me selfish, but I didn't want them to "develop" or "mature". I wanted them to stay "daft" and "punk".
Now that Alive 1997 is out, I have another reason to remember why they're so fantastic. What an amazing live set. I saw them at the Arches in Glasgow on the same tour and was blown away. This is a must for original DP fans. To create beats, loops, and sequences like this, the boys must have some sort of psychic connection. They work together flawlessly and it's a joy to listen, not only to the music, but to such a great live act. My one and only fault with the set is that there's no "Burnin'". That, to me, is Daft Punk's finest. I can still remember the first time I heard it at Slam at the Arches, with all the hairs on my arms standing.
PS - Try and stop the hairs on your arm going crazy at 08:28!
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