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Daft Club was first introduced online shortly after the French duo dropped Discovery. The songs were available for free download as a bonus for purchasing a legit copy of Discovery.  If you bought this you’ll remember opening up the CD case and finding a curious little Daft Card attached behind the plastic CD nipple thing. Initially the address on the front  just led to their fan page and not much else so it stayed dormant in my wallet for some time.

Luckily I kept checking back periodically and one day found the Daft Club MP3 collection unlocked by the individualized 16-digit number on the card’s face.  At first I was megapumped for a batch of free songs by my fav group but soon found out the horrible truth:  the sound quality was total shit.  I could never get into any of the new original songs or remixes because they literally hurt my ears.  I’m still dumbfounded that MP3s from one of the best produced groups on the globo were plagued with the terrible treble shimmer that dominated low bitrate rips throughout the dawn of the 21st century.

Flashforward to 2005.  I was flipping through the used bin at Everybody’s Records in Pleasant Ridge and what’s this?  Daft Club in all its square foot glory staring, maybe even giggling mischievously, at me in the midst of a slew of anonymous electronic records.  “What are you doing here little man?” I thought.

How could this have happened?  At the time I didn’t even know that Daft Club had made it onto CD, let alone vinyl.  And second who would have let this gem fall into the grabby hands of the used bin?  Somebody fucked up hard.

Long story short, I got this baby home and an everlasting love flourished. We’ve been to several Fancytown Balls, taken several weekend trips down Frogtown Road, and shared endless pints of Rocky Road. I keep her secrets and she mine.

But it might have never happened. I might have been forever stuck with her free floozy sister.  I can’t even imagine. Just the thought of those terrible MP3s puts a terrible ring-a-ling-dingin in my fragile ears.  Luckily baby’s medicine is just down below.

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Tracklist

A1   Ouverture 2:40
A2   Aerodynamic (Daft Punk Remix) 6:11
A3   Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (The Neptunes Remix) 5:11
Remix – Neptunes, The
Vocals – Daft Punk
Written-By – E.Birdsong
B1   Face To Face (Cosmo Vitelli Remix) 4:54
Producer – Daft Punk , Todd Edwards
Remix – Cosmo Vitelli
Vocals – Todd Edwards
Written-By – T. Imperatrice
B2   Phoenix (Basement Jaxx Remix) 7:52
Remix – Basement Jaxx
B3   Digital Love (Boris Dlugosh Remix) 7:29
Remix – Boris Dlugosch
Vocals – Daft Punk
Written-By – C. Sosa , G. Duke
C1   Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Jess & Crabbe Remix) 5:58
Remix – Jess & Crabbe
Vocals – Daft Punk
Written-By – E.Birdsong
C2   Face To Face (Demon Remix) 6:59
Producer – Daft Punk , Todd Edwards
Remix – Demon
Vocals – Todd Edwards
Written-By – T. Imperatrice
D1   Crescendolls (Laidback Luke Remix) 5:25
Remix – Laidback Luke
D2   Aerodynamic (Slum Village Remix) 3:36
Remix – Slum Village
D3   Too Long (Gonzales Version) 3:12
Producer – Gonzales
Written-By – A. Moore