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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

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The Cost of a UFO Transmission

This was an old school record-making process. This was something that went down in legendary studios across the United States. Something which cost a lot of money over a million dollars is what Tomás Bongalter estimated the cost of the record to Rolling Stone. I feel like you can hear that expense, that time, that care on the lead single from this album, Get Lucky featuring Nyle Rogers and Pharrell. This is a song that actually takes its time. It begins with some dazzling fret work from Nyle Rogers. But it reflects something about this album that was different than any others that preceded it. And then there's one song that features samples. There's two samples. There

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