Lost Title Music / 004

Welcome back to Lost Title music, a selection of new releases, deep cuts, and hidden gems compiled into a monthly playlist. Each month I’ll share whatever I’m playing at the moment, along with vinyl features from my collection and related videos. Lost Title spans all genres, leaning heavily on jazz, roots, funk, house, disco, electro, and beats while paying tribute to the artists we’ve lost along the way.

This month’s issue features Daft Punk, who recently split after 27 years, innovative collaborators Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders, a tribute to the late José Padilla—Ibiza legend and pioneer of the Café del Mar series, and hip-hop funk-fathers Whodini and Tom Browne.

Be sure to catch videos of The New Show from Detroit’s early techno days, an animated piece for Kiefer’s new track, and The Imperfect List on LTTV. Rest in peace Bunny Wailer. 🙏🏼

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Listen on Spotify: Monthy selection of new releases, deep cuts, and hidden gems found along the way. Leans heavily on jazz, blues, roots, fusion, funk, boogie, house, disco, electro, beats, and the occasional pop banger, while paying tribute to the artists we've lost along the way.

artist Feature: DAFT PUNK

This French duo needs no introduction (and nobody needs to hear Get Lucky again), but when I look back, Daft Punk has had a pretty significant presence in my musical past. I remember seeing the video for Da Funk and immediately bought Homework when it came out in 1997. I then sold it to my friend for five bucks because I just couldn’t get into it. I guess I wasn’t ready for that sound yet. Listening back, it was a pretty hard dance album from the get-go and still delivers all these years later.

I was in London when Human After All came out and I watched the 2005 DMC championship winner take the title with two vinyl copies of Robot Rock. The crowd went apeshit! I couldn’t get tickets to Lollapalooza when they headlined, but Alive 2007 was on repeat that summer and you can see from this video how huge they had become. We couldn’t wait to see TRON when it came out in theaters and can’t think of a better match for the soundtrack than these guys.

By the time Random Access Memories came out in 2013, Daft Punk was everywhere. Not my favorite album, but the sheer production quality, star power, and secret weapon of Nile Rodgers makes it hard not to pay attention to. Grateful for all the bangin’ good times, can’t wait to hear what comes next.