What If "Face to Face" by Daft Punk Used Newer Samples?
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2024
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This idea was inspired by a conversation in the Sample Hunting Discord community (now known as the Sample Sanctuary). Join here if you’d like:
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So I challenged myself to recreate Daft Punk’s “Face to Face” using samples that were released long after when the samples for the original track were released.
While the original used samples mostly coming from the 1970s and 80s, I decided to use songs from a later time frame, hovering around the 2000s and early 2010s.
This is mostly just something I did for fun; I wanted to see how close I could get to the original song while using entirely different samples. Either way, hope you enjoy!
Full list of samples and their original equivalents:*
LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away (main drums, used in place of:
Herbie Mann - Jisco Dazz)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can’t Stop (main guitar riff, used in place of:
Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman)
Sweet Trip - Conservation of Two (backing track for the “Can’t Stop” riff, not used in place of anything really)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (string pluck, used in place of:
Firefall - Body and Soul)
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (short guitar chops, used in place of:
The Alan Parsons Project - Silence and I
Steppenwolf - Everybody’s Next One
The Doobie Brothers - It Keeps You Runnin’
Boz Scaggs - You Got Some Imagination)
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (vocal samples, used in place of:
The Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise (both the “aah” and “chase” samples))
Oneohtrix Point Never - Nassau (piano sample, used in place of:
Poco - Faith In the Families)
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois (other piano sample, used in place of:
Dan Mason - All Along the Watchtower)
Radiohead - 15 Step (vocal samples, used in place of:
Loggins & Messina - House at Pooh Corner
Electric Light Orchestra - Can’t Get It Out of My Head)
MGMT - Kids (“eeeee” vocal sample, used in place of:
Loggins & Messina - Be Free)
American Football - Never Meant (short riff sample, used in place of:
Deborah Washington - The Letter)
Wilco - Jesus, Etc. (chopped fiddle melody, used in place of:
Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg - Tell Me to My Face)
Sweet Trip - Pro:Lov:Ad (vocal sample, used in place of:
Carrie Lucas - Sometimes A Love Goes Wrong (btw, RHCP’s “Can’t Stop” takes up the first usage of this Carrie Lucas sample. This is the second instance of it later in the song)
Fishmans - Long Season (descending piano sample, used in place of:
Carrie Lucas - Something A Love Goes Wrong (alongside the Sweet Trip sample)
Boards of Canada - Alpha and Omega (chopped synth, used in place of:
Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg - Lahaina Luna)
System of a Down - Toxicity (two-note riff, used in place of:
The Doobie Brothers - South City Midnight Lady)
Lady Gaga - Poker Face (low-pitched synth bass during Todd’s verses, used in place of the track’s original bass (which isn’t sampled from anything but still decided to use one for this)
Estelle - American Boy (reversed chimes towards the end of the track, used in place of:
Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg - Twins Theme)
*muted guitar doesn’t have an equivalent here, sorry
*GOOGLE DRIVE LINK WITH LOSSLESS WAV AND ABLETON FILES:*
drive.google.com/file/d/1dN01ViPYzAlyx7vBt7LgGShlSGDPNohu/view?usp=sharing
This idea was inspired by a conversation in the Sample Hunting Discord community (now known as the Sample Sanctuary). Join here if you’d like:
discord.gg/83QcgwREQG
Quick correction: A sample from 15 Step also plays on top of part of the BoC sample. I accidentally forgot to edit that into the video before rendering it
can you please make a video where it's just the song without the intro...
Can we get a download for the song pls?
@@alvanegra253 It's in the link, when you extract the ZIP file you get the project ZIP file but also the WAV export of what he did.
Wow, WinAmp REALLY does not like that WAV file
You didn't automate the highlights by scraping data from the ableton files? Man, artists are crazy!
This is such a remarkable and creative video. What an experience
YOOOOO BRAD!!! Did not expect you to be here, but glad you enjoyed it man! :D
🤩
OH MY GOD ITS BRAD!!!
I agree with Brad on this one. Hell I'm giving this a smiley ball. 🙂
Came here from your community post, good looking out Brad. This shit was dope as fuck lol
The "Aa-aa" from Weird Fishes carries everything so hard
It makes this rendition so heavenly
😐
radiohead fans trying to enjoy anything that isn't radiohead
@@henrysmith7070 I can confirm
@@henrysmith7070 Real
Covering a plunderphonics song? Wtf?!? People don’t understand the immense difficulty of finding completely different songs with the same sound and vibe as the original, seriously insane man hats off to you for the achievement
These are microsamples. It’s much MUCH easier to find matching samples than you think! Please use your brains, and think about all bands have the basic building blocks of rhythm section, voice, guitars, bass, synth, etc. AI also makes matching sound samples much easier. . .
@@jnnxshut up
@@jnnx "Please use your brains"
are you calling us *stupid?* there are rarely any covers of _plunderphonics_ tracks. daft punk & todd edwards compiled about 70 samples to use for face to face, and they had to pick *20* from them. that's still a bunch of samples! very few people (besides todd edwards) have done this kind of plunderphonics with a myriad of samples. you could see why people were amazed both at the original track and this cover, and that these samples happened to have the perfect riffs, melodies, and chords to be put together to make face to face. stop devaluing stuff which other (more innocent) people are astounded by. i'm genuinely so tired of seeing these types of comments implying that people are stupid or amazed at the littlest things. if they're happy with what they find, keep them happy. _there's nothing wrong with being happy at the little things_
@jnnx then make a cover
@@jnnxyou going through every comment of praise and being pissy is doing nothing for your case
This is like one of those music YTPs people used to make with random memes and videos, Except that now instead of using those things, It uses actual music samples to create more music.
Plunderphonics YTPMVs need to become more of a thing
Except this ISN’T creating more new music, it’s cloning already existing music, to sound more like already existing music. This project is very creatively nihilistic. It’s like if a human tried to make ai music.
@@jnnx stop yapping
@@jnnxbro how is this “nihilistic” like have you ever heard of remaking things? By that logic is a still life painting also creatively nihilistic since it’s just a recreation of the things in your surroundings?
Art based on other art is still art.
@@jnnx bro does NOT know what sampling is
Daft Punk - Face to Face RYM top 100 albums edition
Nah but in all seriousness this is impressive, completely remaking a sample based song this complex with entirely different samples cannot be easy xD
thx Tim! Yeah I was waiting for the comment about these being rym albums lol
But glad you enjoyed this either way!
it doesn't matter who you are, fishmans is always a dead giveaway@@Nicksterbruh
RYM?
@@yeeaahh8863 Rate Your Music
@@yeeaahh8863rate your music
ok maybe 63 people already said it but the way you sampled those songs are truly amazing. Like face to face is a REALLY HARD song to pull off there's so much going on and your chopping was on point. congratz nickster
And I know I’ve said this about 50 times, but thanks so much!
It’s technically time consuming, but not “hard” (it’s already been done). I think it displays how the choice of songs used isn’t as important as how the samples are arranged.
@jnnx then you do it
@@jnnxrecreate face to face with even newer samples then
LAURA MOURAS IN A RANDOM UA-cam VIDEO I FOUND, HUH ?
You’ve done the impossible: you’ve managed to “cover” a Plunderphonics track!
Amazing stuff, Nickster! Love the In Rainbows inclusions. Would you consider a DAW screencap video to show how the samples are chopped and arranged? 😄
Thanks Geecy! I might do a full breakdown of this at some point in the future, who knows 👀
@@Nicksterbruhplease do
@@Nicksterbruhit would be amazing
@@Nicksterbruh PLEASE I NEED TO SEE
Kidding aside, I am absolutely amazed at what's been going on within the sampling community.
Not only are there more creative expansions to the concept, but creative constraints as well!
Please show us your work in a DAW screen recording!
I have Ableton so I'll be studying it closely on my own time, but others could really benefit, and even be inspired, by a video like what they commentor asked!
putting LCD Soundsystem as the primary drum base, so that its constantly looping through the entire song, seems especially fitting to me. LCD Soundsystem obviously are big fans of Daft Punk, given their song "Daft Punk is playing at my house". Great work Nickster!
James Murphy was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids, after all
@@yeszoplusfriends A true visionary
@@yeszoplusfriends everyone thought he was crazy
We all know 😂
@@chieloverweg7115 He was theeeere!
LCD, Sweet Trip, RHCP, Radiohead, BoC, Fishmans... this is crazy
and Sufjan, and SOAD, and MGMT, and fucking OPN...
craziest sample flips ive heard in a while
...and for some reason C. R. Jepson and Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson... I guess this is how sampling is supposed to work; you mash so much stuff together that it becomes hard to tell what came from where... Creativity.
and even OPN!! i was so happy
the wilco sample carries this so hard
seconding this notion
real
fits so good
Not carrying it but so so good
The stars fr aligned at that point
Radiohead instead of ELO is the coolest thing ever
it’s actually radiohead instead of kenny loggins and rhcp instead of elo
"AAAAAAAAAA"
- Thom York
And it's the reason why it sucks
i guess the haters gonna hate
@@NoAlarms2 MTV beachouse reference!?!?!?1?1!1?1!?
this is like finding a new company's take on your favorite ice cream flavor, it's so good
this sounds like face to face but in the style of random access memories, i love it, i love it real hard
edit: 2,1k already? geez
also i kinda agree with some replies, it doesnt sound like ram, but more so unique, idk why i had a feeling it sounded like ram
Thx man!
def not ram but it does sound unique
It doesn't sound anything like RAM
hiiii bsoda
@@Hoidberg P
This sample spread is INSANE. Recompiling a whole song like this is mind boggling
how on earth did you 1. come up with this idea 2. follow through with it to create a cohesive song? this is so cooool
1. The idea originally came back in April 2023 from someone in a sample hunting server I was in, who had asked if someone could try to remake face to face but using a newer set of samples. I decided to go ahead with it and it took me about a few weeks to finish
2. I didn’t start with the beginning of the song, I just thought of samples from the original that sounded similar to snippets of other songs, and slowly built the song from there on out. iirc I might have started with the MGMT/American Football/Wilco samples first and everything else started falling into place soon after
@@Nicksterbruh wow, that’s awesome! i’m glad you decided to do it, face to face is one of my favorite songs ever so it’s really sweet to hear this modern interpretation:)
It's like hearing face to face for the first time again, but in a parallel universe. Well done
THIS IS GENIUS!!! I hope Daft Punk themselves get a chance to see this!
Well, they would have to look at it separately.
@@JaredtheRabbit they're not banned from being in the same room
@@servvo or are they?
@@JaredtheRabbitYou mean they wouldn't watch it...
...face to face?
@@servvoHuh, okay.
Crazy how you can just hear the time period itself in the music. For a million different reasons, it's sharper, colder tones, more spaced out etc as compared to the music of the decades Daft Punk used. No difference in quality just style, this sounds great 👌
That Toxicity sample is used so minutely yet so tastefully.
i think my favorite part of this is that it covers about an equally diverse range of genres that the original song does too
That little SOAD riff sample may be my favorite thing ever
Gave yourself the wackiest set of restrictions for one of the trickiest songs to pick apart and still nailed it, teach us
Props for focusing on the function of the samples, not just picking super close sounds. Some of these are radically different, yet serve the exact same function and sound great. Love it
Love the inclusion of the beginning tones in American Boy, does really tie it all in
OH MY GOD. THIS IS SO COOOOLLLLLLL. The Poker Face sample playing when the lyrics came in was SUCH a good touch.
Never thought anyone would be able to "cover" a plunderphonics songs - and never thought I'd see Sufjan Stevens used in such a cover! Fantastic work!
This made me think of a thing where people would make their own versions of Face to Face with their own chosen samples
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger samples Stronger by Kanye West"
Bro PLEASE put this on Spotify. I want this in my playlist so bad.
you are amazing for using fishmans
Haha thanks!
Seeing Oneohtrix Point Never amongst this collection is incredible
I thought the same thing, replica is one of the most remarkable albums EVER
Not only is this an awesome recreation, the sample choices are PEAK. LCD, Sweet Trip, Radiohead, OPN, Wilco, Fishmans, BoC, American Football etc.
this is seriously so impressive. cant imagine the amount of work just to find all these samples and chop them up in a way that sounds this good.
This is more like what Sebastian's rendention would sounds like... How did I realized thag earlier?
REAL
this objectively great. LCD, Boards, Daft, Sweet Trip, MGMT, Radiohead, its just perfect
Imagine listening to an album and realizing "hmm, this part goes exactly like THAT part of the extremely complex sample mix on Face To Face"
Now imagine noticing this several times until you get the whole song and cut everything so perfectly.
This is at least crazy, and surely genius. 🤯
this is CRAZY good, really keeps the spirit of the original and doesn't shy away from getting technical and creative. what a love letter to sampling this is (especially with the inclusion of OPN! made me smile) ♡
this is one of the best videos ive ever seen -- you were faithful to the original song with a whole different pallet of sounds. and your sample choices! lcd, sweet trip, radiohead, american football, mgmt, wilco, fishmans . . . some of my favorite artists
Face to Face not only sounds good, it somehow brings creativity to people in away. There are so many talented guys working with it on the internet.
dude you've got some serious talent doing these chops
Feels like something from parallel universe, btw awesome job! Would be interesting to see other DP tracks with this experement
this is the best video I've seen in a while. great idea and execution!!
This is awesome! I'll admit I've heard Face to Face so many times that this was always going to sound a little off to me at first, but after a very short time my brain completely accepted it as the real deal, these chops are too great. Keep up the good work!
this is absolutely phenomenal HAHA snapped me out of my distress. keep it up!
haha glad I could help, and thanks! Hope you're doing well man
This is so great! It really reminded me of how madeon did that one mashup track back in the day. This will def blow up
0:59 That part tickles my brain. I don't know why though
1:23 this sampling part is just AMAZING Bravo.
This is one of the most impressive and complex things in music I've seen, when I clicked on the video I was conflicted between curiosity & skepticism but you've definetly gained my respect.
This is fuckin sick wtf, just shows you can make anything with music, sample chopping and pitching etc, sounds good asf like the original but with a twist that violin I love, the editing as well 🙏🏽🙏🏽 amazing job
Daft Punk's masterpiece is on the Discovery album and I think the video says it all
The fact that you spliced and matched the newer sample very closely to the original samples and making it work is mindblowing
This kinda sounds like if you were listening to the original song while having a stroke at the same time.
I kinda like it
its crazy too how when u think about each song separately, you dont expect them to lend themselves to this sort of song, but in this context they make exact sense!
Wow! You better not stop posting!! Beautiful. The Dynamics, the Eq, the clean chops, everything!!
this is such a good idea and i love the way you laid out this video, straight into it and the visuals explain everything. love it!
Wild!!! I didn't expect it to even come close to following the same "melody". Loved hearing hearing Yorke's vox inbetween all of this craziness.
That is legit a such a good idea to train or to recreate in a more recent style, I need more, do more of these !
The work you’ve done on this is truly beyond amazing!! I love it so much
omg this is such a cool idea and an amazing execution, id love to see a sample breakdown honestly
Really cool idea and great execution. Good job!
This is REALLY cool, had a smile on my face hearing the different parts of the song come out. Really surprised it has less than 1k views. Good work!
the soad sample is crazy, well done !!
This is so sick! Great job :)
here from brad's community post! this is amazing :D
Honestly very impressive, you did some great work 😎 Your sampling skills are amazing! Must've taken a WHILE to get this done, well done👌👏👏
This is incredible, now I really want to stream this version!! Please do more!
This fucking ROCKS the chorus hits so different genuinely so sick!!!!
This is incredible and I feel the need to share this everywhere
This was a very good reimagining! Great job!
This is genuinely one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Fantastic work!
This is absolutely insane 😭😭 this is super interesting and honestly sounds great. Hopefully daft punk can see this cause I think they’d like it
Yorke's voice somehow works extremely well here
This was awesome, man!! Keep up with good work like this!
this is is a super creative idea and also super well executed. good work dude. 👍
This such a cool idea, and you executed into what sounds like an awesome remix?cover?? I dunno what to call it but amazing work haha
This must've taken so much work. It gives a different effect than the original, but in a good way. Very impressive.
This is a cool idea and the editing is awesome. Hope to see more soon!
That’s some dedication bro, f ing amazing 👏🏻👏🏻
I didn't realize how new this video was when I first watched it a few days ago, but I still think this is a great video.
I'd love to see people do stuff like Face to Face with samples from Undertale or FNF songs.
Cool! But... now you've got me thinking. If Face to Face can be recreated with songs thirty years NEWER, could it be recreated with songs thirty years OLDER? or even further back than that?
probably. but the sonic palette would very different since you'd be pulling from a time with no distorted guitars, no electronics, reverb, etc.
@@SilhouetteLifter Maybe not as we know them today, but early/proto versions of those sounds go WAY back! Gutair distortion was first being experimented with back in the 30s, by intentionally wrecking amplifiers, with standalone "fuzzbox" gutair pedals coming in the early 60s. The theremin was made in the late 20s, and actual synthesizers came shortly after, so electronic music also existed!
Awesome work!
This is so cool! Very creative!
UA-cam identified this video as being “Face to Face”. If confusing the Algorithm isn’t the mark of a good remake, I don’t know what could be.
The video uses Todd Edwards' vocals
it literally plays the original song in the beginning lmao
It’s the vocals.
This is amazing! How someone with no background/experience in music could learn this skill? I always wanted to but I don’t know where to start.
Depends on how in-depth you want to go, but the plethora of content right here on YT will be more than enough to get you started.
If you want the musical side, you need to learn at least basic music theory.
You will probably want to focus on music production, so any relevant video guide within the last 5 to 10 years is enough, but don't count out modern stuff.
If you want to record your own stuff (say you have a friend that plays guitar, or you learn to sing or play an instrument yourself) you'll need an audio interface and a solid microphone - a Focusrite Scarlett Solo or a Scarlett 2i2 are perfect beginner interfaces with audio quality that can match the pros, and a used Shure SM57 will take you very far. Perhaps a Samson C01 if you prefer a condenser mic (a bit more crisp and airy-sounding, but less forgiving in a non-acoustically treated room). The mic plugs into your interface and the interface plugs into your computer. Any computer within the last decade should be able to handle this without issue.
Either way, you will also need a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Good news is there are several affordable options (even free - Reaper offers an unlimited free trial, WinRAR style) with TONS of video how-to guides here on YT. Modern DAW softwares will offer a toolset equivalent to the best multimillion dollar studios, don't let anybody tell you any different. A lot of their gear is antiquated and unnecessary these days - there's a reason the recording studio is dying.
Within a DAW, you can produce, record, edit, mix and master your own work. There are several great choices from Reaper, Pro Tools, Logic, FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase, Bandlab Cakewalk Sonar, Bitwig, etc. and they will either offer free demos or unlimited free trials (again, like Reaper). Torrenting is also an option if you're comfortable with that route.
Take a crack at it and see if you like it!
@@pc_buildyb0i935 any channels that you recommend to start of?
@@pc_buildyb0i935 Thanks for the advice by the way, took screenshots to keep it safe 🤓
This is incredible! Great job. Also your music taste if top tier.
Amazing video dude, somehow just kept getting better and better
Boards of Canada sample spotted, you have wonderful taste
Genius!
Thank you!
Really cool, nice work here
Super creative work done here man
This is what I'd imagine Face To Face (Daft Punk's Version) would sound like.
this is VERY good
Excellent work! I'll be sure to check out your other work
You are so amazing for this. I love this so much!!!
really good... great use of nassau, radiohead samples sound slightly out of tune to me though
Strong Illinois presence in this version. I approve
This is one the coolest and most creative videos I've watched absolute killer job
This is a really awesome result and i think you did an amazing job
if this was released before discovery, it will be a hit