Alive 2007
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| Live album by Daft Punk | ||||||||
| Released | 19 November 2007 | |||||||
| Recorded | 14 June 2007 | |||||||
| Venue | Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy (Paris, France) | |||||||
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| Label | Virgin | |||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 78/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| IGN | 9.2/10 |
| NME | 7/10 |
| The Phoenix |  |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.5/10 |
| PopMatters | 9/10 |
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| Slant Magazine | |
| Spin | 8/10 |
| Toronto Star | |
Alive 2007 is the second live album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 19 November 2007 by Virgin Records. It features the duo's performance at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy arena in Paris on 14 June 2007. The set features an assortment of music from Daft Punk's discography, incorporated with on-stage synthesizers, mixers, and live effects.
The album's physical release in North America was delayed to 4 December 2007 due to production issues, but the album later became available as a digital download on 20 November 2007, and was later released in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2008. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2009. A special edition of the album was released that includes the encore from the Alive 2007 tour on a second disc. It also includes a 50-page book containing photographs from the tour taken by DJ Falcon.
The Alive 2007 set used Ableton Live software on "custom made super-computers" for the show. Daft Punk accessed the hardware remotely with Behringer BCR2000 MIDI controllers and JazzMutant Lemur touchscreen pads within the central pyramid. Minimoog Voyager RME units were also implemented for the live performances. The four Voyager units and two Behringer mixers allowed Daft Punk to "mix, shuffle, trigger loops, filter, distort samples, EQ in and out, transpose or destroy and deconstruct synth lines." The majority of the equipment was stored away during the live sets within offstage towers.
The recording of Alive 2007 was derived from Daft Punk's live performance at their Bercy show on 14 June 2007. Reviews of the set noted how Daft Punk manipulated and reworked their established material. One report spotted vocal elements from the song "Too Long" mixed with newly generated accompaniment. The overlapped mixtures of "Television Rules the Nation" with "Crescendolls", "Around the World" with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Superheroes" with "Human After All" were reported to be well received by the audience. The set itself was considered a collection of Daft Punk's most popular recordings. The performances heavily featured tracks from Daft Punk's album Human After All, prompting critics to reconsider what they felt about the album.
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