{"id":114809,"date":"2013-06-07T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?p=114809"},"modified":"2013-06-07T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:27:06","slug":"daft-punk-confirmed-as-producers-of-kanye-wests-black-skinhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2013\/06\/daft-punk-confirmed-as-producers-of-kanye-wests-black-skinhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Daft Punk confirmed as producers of Kanye West&#8217;s &#8216;Black Skinhead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West is less than two weeks away from dropping his latest studio album,\u00a0<em>Yeezus,\u00a0<\/em>but details from tracklist to pre-order are still being kept tight. As it&#8217;s been confirmed, the album will feature production from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2013\/05\/kanye-west-cites-daft-punk-and-skrillex-as-collaborators-on-forthcoming-album\/\">electronic talents<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; notably Skrillex and Daft Punk. Last month, Kanye debuted &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2013\/05\/kanye-west-debuts-new-single-black-skinhead-indicative-of-daft-punk-production\/\">Black Skinhead<\/a>&#8221; on Saturday Night Live, and it was instantly rumored to have been produced by Daft Punk after matching Thomas Bangalter&#8217;s description of their collaboration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe had a combination of live drums and programmed drums going&#8230;\u00a0Not even rapping, more like screaming in this very primal way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After an observant spotting of production credits, it has been confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/daft-punk\">Daft Punk<\/a>\u00a0have in fact co-written one of the lead singles off\u00a0<em>Yeezus &#8212;\u00a0<\/em>with composers listed as Kanye West, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and Thomas Bangalter. Juxtaposing the sound they unveiled on\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2013\/05\/editors-roundtable-daft-punk-random-access-memories-reactions\/\">Random Access Memories<\/a><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>the French duo deliver a dark, intense combination of programmed and live drums among other jungle-like elements for Kanye to blur genres with his shouts of controversial lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/kanye-west\/70714\">NME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"><!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"> <object width=\"575\" height=\"324\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/videoplayer.vevo.com\/embed\/Embedded?videoId=USUMV1300098&amp;playlist=false&amp;autoplay=0&amp;playerId=62FF0A5C-0D9E-4AC1-AF04-1D9E97EE3961 &amp;playerType=embedded&amp;env=0&amp;cultureName=en-US&amp;cultureIsRTL=False\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"575\" height=\"324\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/videoplayer.vevo.com\/embed\/Embedded?videoId=USUMV1300098&amp;playlist=false&amp;autoplay=0&amp;playerId=62FF0A5C-0D9E-4AC1-AF04-1D9E97EE3961 &amp;playerType=embedded&amp;env=0&amp;cultureName=en-US&amp;cultureIsRTL=False\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uploads.dancingastronaut.com\/2013\/06\/tumblr_mnwp3cVRFp1r4l6ybo1_400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114845\" alt=\"tumblr_mnwp3cVRFp1r4l6ybo1_400\" src=\"http:\/\/uploads.dancingastronaut.com\/2013\/06\/tumblr_mnwp3cVRFp1r4l6ybo1_400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_mnwp3cVRFp1r4l6ybo1_400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_mnwp3cVRFp1r4l6ybo1_400-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_mnwp3cVRFp1r4l6ybo1_400-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daft Punk confirmed as producers of Kanye West&#8217;s &#8216;Black Skinhead,&#8217; lead single off &#8216;Yeezus.&#8217;","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":114813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[9604,780,145],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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