Daft Punk ‎– Around The World

Who's the lucky one to have this CDr? How was the picture taken? Does it look like a dejá vu? Remember Little Fluffy Clouds CDr?

Another one of his great songs! I love it. Yet repetitive.

I agree the track is great until the 7 minute mark, however I have always loved the breakdown in the middle of the track and equally enjoy the second half of the track. Oh well, different strokes for different folks and all that.

The Motorbass Miami is definitely the best remix of Around the World, hands-down. It should've been on the original 12" release IMO. Here Etienne de Crecy and Phillipe Zdar take the vocals and some of the synth from Around the World, pitch it up a little bit, and add in a sample from Shakatak - Easier Said Than Done along with some vocals of "I've Been Away" and "Aww Yeah!", giving the track a really nice French-House feel that wasn't really seen until 1999. The track is great until the 7 minute mark, when things go haywire with a strange off-beat drum kick and really annoying cymbals that ruins the rest of the track, luckily there's a breakdown before it so you can crossfade out of the track very easily before it kicks in.

The I:Cube remix sounds like a sampler gone haywire, chopping up the synth and vocals of Around the World, pitching them subsequently up and down, and adding in a strange phaser, "I wanna" vocals, and some electro bassline. It's not that great of a remix to be honest.

But check out the Motorbass Miami mix, you really can't go wrong, excellent excellent disco-sampling French house remix of Around the World. It might be on par there with the original, and if it wasn't for the random cymbals and annoying drum-kick halfway into the track, it'd be even better. Excellent production from Zdar and Etienne de Crecy.

These remixes really aren't that great. The Kenlou mix, RAW Dub, and Masters At Work remix really do more or less the same thing to Around the World: Chop it up and add some new beats, and take out most of the vocals. The Mellow dub is probably the best on here because it tries something different, as a sort of instrumental to Around the World, and it sounds decent at that. But the other three remixes are really blah.

My fave Daft Punk tune and a real 'get inside your head' tune that just grows and grows on you. A superb spacey intro and then one of their fantastic baselines kicks in and you're away. Such an infectious groove. Robotic space age house music that rocks.

There are 2 releases of this, both identical, except for the jacket. One, the original French edition, has a large square silver sticker on the front with writing in blue letters. The alternate catalog number is PM 218. The other (re-issue?) was printed in the UK and has a black jacket with no sticker or writing. The alternate catalog number is PM 220.