Muting the percussion on a track allows the melodies to be more easily sampled in other songs and mixes. I imagine that this is a way to help their music be plugged into future songs.
RAM stems are already out there ... I think the drumless release, especially on vinyl, is more useful for DJs who want to mix in samples "live" in the room to a dancing crowd. RAM is all about marrying a Disco and DJ aesthetic with the best of everything Dance that happened between the 70s and the 2010s. Daft Punk even switched out specific period microphones for different parts of recording. Encouraging old-school vinyl scratch mixing is right in the wheelhouse.
I suspect they Daft Punk also enjoy how deep the pocket groove on the work is. When you have Nile Rodgers and Nathan East playing on tracks it's just incredible. And because they recorded to Omar Hakim's drums originally, his groove sticks even when you can't hear him. I hope he still gets credit!
If this is why… why not just release all the individual layers?
I’ve always wondered how remixes come to be. Some sound muddy and obviously full of muted layers. But others sound like they had access to the individual tracks.
"All the individual layers" are called "stems" and artists that want to explicitly encourage remixes of their work will release stems. (Of course, you still pay royalties if you use them.)
You can also create your own stems, typically of usable but not perfect quality, using AI track separation software like demucs. ("Demux," get it?) I've used them to censor a track, or to isolate just percussion and piano, for example.
Some artists do. Moby used to do this. You can see it on this old CD single where he included a track with all the "parts" on it which was just the individual samples:
colmmacc|2 years ago
I suspect they Daft Punk also enjoy how deep the pocket groove on the work is. When you have Nile Rodgers and Nathan East playing on tracks it's just incredible. And because they recorded to Omar Hakim's drums originally, his groove sticks even when you can't hear him. I hope he still gets credit!
Waterluvian|2 years ago
I’ve always wondered how remixes come to be. Some sound muddy and obviously full of muted layers. But others sound like they had access to the individual tracks.
thrtythreeforty|2 years ago
You can also create your own stems, typically of usable but not perfect quality, using AI track separation software like demucs. ("Demux," get it?) I've used them to censor a track, or to isolate just percussion and piano, for example.
qingcharles|2 years ago
https://www.discogs.com/release/27604-Moby-Feeling-So-Real-R...
I used to sample these and put them in a MOD tracker and make my own remixes that way in the early 90s.
unknown|2 years ago
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