Random Access Memories: Daft Punk & Jay Z - "Computerized" (unreleased)
It's pretty awesome how wildly popular something as arguably inaccessible as Daft Punk's sun-soaked Pharrell & Nile Rodgers-assisted 1970's Soul-Funk revival, "Get Lucky" slowly became one of the break-out hits of last summer; "Getting lucky is not just sleeping with her, but meeting someone for the first time and it just clicking. There's no better fortune in this existence to me," Pharrell explained within a pre-album Creators Project segment. Their Grammy-winning album, Random Access memories featured vocal contributions from the lies of Julian Casablancas, Panda Bear, Paul Williams, Chilly Gonzales, as well as a couple aggro-production credits on Kanye's latest Industrial-Rap album, Yeezus. While it's true validity has yet to be 100% fully confirmed, a previously unreleased Daft Punk & Jay Z track suddenly materialized on The Internet Monday afternoon. Kanye to The forum user LordLordLord uploaded "Computerized" to a leaked new music thread mid-Monday afternoon, initially crediting Kanye with a co-production credit, which has since been debunked. Noisey editor Drew Millard notes that "Computerized" sounds a whole Hell of a lot like "Son of Flynn" from the Daft Punk-composed Tron: Legacy score. While he further speculates that it's actually a illegitimate fan-boy concoction, I'd almost like to believe that "Computerized" could very well be an unfinished left-over from The Robots' 2011 Tron: Legacy remix album; Judging by some of Jay Z's terribly dated technological references, the track was most likely recorded around the same time as The Blueprint 3 and Tron: Legacy or somewhere between 2009-10. Long before Jay Z's recent mondo-affiliation with Samsung, which helped make his latest album, Magna Carta... Holy Grail, such an instant success. That's about all that was known [and speculated] about "Computerized" at press time Tuesday afternoon, so click above and have a listen to the track, before Columbia and Roc-Nation have the track simultaneously pulled from across The Internet.