Throughout their legendary career, Daft Punk continued to prove that the more robotic their music became, the more human they sounded. This dichotomy came to a head on their third album, aptly titled Human After All. Where their past two records wired their circuits and gave the robots a voice, on Human After All, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo gave Daft Punk sentience. On Human After All robots rock, but they also question their rigid programming. The record's ensuing tour and resulting live album, Alive 2007, furthered the narrative by ushering in a new age of live electronic performance. The impact of these two records range from the development of EDM to everlasting hits like “Technologic.” On episode three of our Listening 2 Daft Punk series, we take a look at these two records, and how both Alive and Human After All imbued the robots with super intelligence.

Songs Discussed

• Daft Punk - Human After All
• Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life
• Daft Punk - Robot Rock
• Breakwater - Release the Beast
• Daft Punk - Steam Machine
• Daft Punk - The Brainwasher
• Black Sabbath - Iron Man
• Daft Punk - Technologic
• Daft Punk - Emotion
• John Williams – Wild Signals
• Daft Punk – Touch It / Technologic
• Daft Punk – Oh Yeah
• Daft Punk – Technologic
• Busta Rhymes – Touch It
• Daft Punk – Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger
• Daft Punk – Face to Face / Short Circuit
• Daft Punk – Da Funk / Daftendirekt
• Kanye West – Stronger
• Kanye West – On Sight
• Daft Punk – Human After All / Together / One More Time / Music Sounds Better With You

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