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    The Vinyl Word Presents: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

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    Tuesday, July 14, 2026

    8:00 PM

    Arlene's Grocery

    95 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002

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    About This Event

    The Vinyl Word Presents: Random Access Memories — Daft Punk at Arlene's Grocery centers on the group's recorded work. Daft Punk's music treats studio production as a principal instrument, reconfiguring dance-floor structures into tightly engineered songs; in New York the name circulates in club contexts such as Brooklyn's Market Hotel, where an approach of precision over intimacy prevails.

    About Random Access Memories

    “Random Access Memories” is a late-period Daft Punk work that looks back to American pop and club music from the turn of the 1980s, filtering those references through meticulous studio craft. Parts of the album were recorded at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan, tying its retro-futurist sound to a real New York room with a long musical afterlife. At Arlene’s Grocery, the focus is on the recorded object: sequencing, texture, and the way production becomes composition. It matters as a document of dance music treating nostalgia as material rather than mood.

    About the Artist

    Daft Punk

    Daft Punk

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    Daft Punk is a group working in the overlap of rock and pop, known for turning dance-floor structures into tightly engineered songs. Their work foregrounds rhythm, repetition, and studio craft, often treating the production itself as the main instrument.