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The master DJs blend all their biggest hits into one enthralling, seamless mash-up of pumping bass lines, steady drumbeats, and cooing vocoders.
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Deconstructing and recontextualizing their tune stock "mais oui," these robot wannabes bathed the unwashed in the blood of the synthesizer, broadening and lowering sounds that in their original substantiations owe not just Detroit techno but Ramada Inn lounge.
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This is a compulsively listenable album, through and through, and one of the best live albums I’ve ever heard.
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Here you get an hour’s worth of top-notch disco-house jams crammed together into a non-stop megamix that emphasizes both the duo’s tune sense and their body-rocking beatcraft.
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The results were massive--the myriad "best show ever" kudos deserved.
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The intensity simply builds and builds, until it becomes wondrously hard to sort the noise from the rhythms, and vice-versa.
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Nothing can quite match the in-person thrills of the current Daft Punk live experience, what with the robot costumes, onstage pyramid and body-rattling beats radiating out into the blissed-out faithful. But Alive 2007 comes pretty darn close.
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SpinFew can both formulate hooks on the ecstatic level of 'One More Time' and then tweak them into noisy oblivion. [Dec 2007, p.119]
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Under The RadarBy the time the frenzy of 'One More Time' hits, there is a feeling of exhuberant exhaustion from the tangible overdrive of energy Alive 2007 is packing. [Fall 2007, p.84]
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As on their first two classic full-lengths, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo display excellent crowd control, pacing the record well, spacing the hits, and building the mood like the good crowd-pleasers they are.
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Despite a few individual disappointments, Alive 2007 is as exciting a collection of music as any released this year.
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Songs you thought you knew are put through the spin cycle--each track deftly fastens together at least two of their best--so even if you're the level of devotee who owns 'Homework' in every format, you'll still be impressed by this heavy load.
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One of the most fun live albums I've heard in a long while, this is worth checking out even if Daft Punk's most recent offerings haven't done it for you.
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This is the first-rate live album that Electric Light Orchestra should have made but never did.
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While occasionally the duo seems to fall back on cranking up the merciless 4/4 kick until their audience begs for mercy, Alive 2007 actually does more to reveal their musicianship than almost any other Daft Punk release to date
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BlenderThe result is a happy souvenir, best experienced among 12,000 of your closest, Ecstacy-popping friends. [Dec 2007, p.144]
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One answer, really...bass. Or, lack of bass. Having tested the disc on several systems, I can only determine that someone at Daft Punk central, or Virgin Records decided to master this disc like a pop record, the mids jacked to high heaven while the sub-bass, the stuff that actually makes you move, is completely erased.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 165 out of 182
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Mixed: 1 out of 182
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Negative: 16 out of 182
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ManjeroApr 8, 2008
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PhillipMar 27, 2008I'm not even a fan of house music but this album is a major exception.
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Nov 6, 2011