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  • White men making money off black men labor... typical.

  • shame on daft punk

  • Oh shit, awesome!!

    Robot rock of 80`s

  • Release the Robot Rock!

  • lets see there was brick slave ohio players kool and the gang pleasure etc but this band has its own sound.......

  • philly oh yeaaaaaaa

  • A wild beast appears.

  • To set the record straight for some. Breakwater originally did this written by Kae Williams Jr. Daft punk sampled the song with Kae's permission and yes they are still paying to this day. I know because Kae is my brother. And yes the whole family appreciates Daft Puink bringing this this to the forefront years after the original was released.

  • Every comment is about Daft Punk XD

  • To mendezice9335, THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL VERSION. Then came Daft Punk.

  • @hawkhulk And then someone else sampled daft punk.

  • robot rock time!

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  • Rock, Robot,Rock xD

  • idk, i actually think this version is somewhat better than daft punk's version... WHAT DID I JUST SAY!?!?!

  • I gotta say, Robot Rock was Daft Punk's darkest hour.

    As a huge fan of them, I think they should have never released it, for two guys who normally wove their samples in beautifully, this was just copying and pasting.

    Luckily, they made it better with their maximum overdrive remix and Alive 2007.

    Although I give them props for creating an original riff at the start, that's a real fist-pounder.

  • @jamesminnow they dont always hide their samples. harder faster stronger for example is the most obvious, but it doesnt mean its not a good song?

  • @dysphoriatheband Yes, but that sample wasn't necessary to the song, it was a small addition that made it that little bit better, but if you took this out of Robot Rock, barely anything would be left.

  • It's usually pretty paradigm shifting when you are "singing" a song most of the day, then you go home, YouTube it only to find out that you were singing it wrong, and that the music you were singing is actually "sampled" from another song by some weird artist, but then the artist is usually not cool and/or respectable enough for you to care, so you just keep on singing wrong the song that you consider to be by the artist you first heard it from.

  • omg

    daft punk took up this theme

  • @sebichouify No shit Sherlock?

  • @chezza55 bitch

  • @sebichouify The correct term is "sampled this tune".

  • @RoryVideos ok

  • I'll never be able to listen to Robot Rock like before ^^

  • its called sampling and it was the main tool for electronic production backdays...

  • it is absurd how awesome this songs is......

  • WHAT IS DEFINITION OF A DJ!?! THEY SAMPLE OTHER'S MUSIC!!!! NOW SHUT UP!!!

  • I love Daft Punk and knew they used plenty of samples but had no idea it'd be a literal lift. There is absolutely nothing original about DF's copy. This is kind of a big deal.

  • @ac1dman they used one part of it and looped it with robotic vocals. Look at it this way, they got more people to hear this by making their version.

  • @cyberturban @AutoTerminator: I understand they're DJs and I don't love them any less for sampling but they did present the track as their own, on their own album. The tracklist doesn't say "Breakwater - Release the Beast (Daft Punk Edit)", it says "Daft Punk - Robot Rock. That's what I personally have a problem with.

  • @ac1dman You know all samples are mentioned on the record. Read the text on the booklet. Usually it's "X contains a sample from Y"

  • @ac1dman They used a very "literal" sample, but considering they are completely different songs from different genres there is a vast difference in the song, even with the same sample. It's like saying all a singer's songs are the same because it's the same voice.

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  • Had no idea Daft Punk sampled so much dope music! It really revives old music that people woulda never known about otherwise

  • This is some funky ass shit right here.

  • OMG THEY RIPPED OFF DAFT PUNK1?!

  • @thecorruptedmind yes :) hehehe

  • People need to understand that DJing is all about sampling songs, what do you think is on the vinyls on thier turntables? a fucking collection of beeps and drums? you need paint to paint a picture and you need disks to disk jockey.

  • @jacktennesee Daft Punk did a bit more than take a little sample from this for Robot Rock; they lifted the whole hook - and just looped it adding a little vocoder piece. It should have been nothing more than a bootleg re-edit as that's what there track is. I hope they gave 99.9% of the royalty to Breakwater. Very cheeky of them to put this out and palm it off as something original.

  • @tyrell65 I think they never palmed it as something original, they did gave the credit of the song to Breakwater

  • @artha5 That's nice but they still made money off the cover and that's the problem I have. If they were just doing a live cover version to pay homage, then I wouldn't care. Great musicians shouldn't need a legacy of covers and sample filled songs.

  • @clipsryan Well, i do understand what you are saying, but the thing is that most electronic music it's based from samples and things like that. Still at least they did gave credit to Breakwater and i think it kinds of put the band in the open. Many french house djs have taken samples from disco music (which i think is more creative and entertaining) instead of the same old beats most other djs usually use and that made those bands more known to the public, kind of a homage to that whole age

  • @tyrell65 I don't think Daft Punk ever made any sort of claim of originality... a lot of their stuff is sampled. Their album "Discovery" is called "Discovery" for a reason.

  • Yo9u guys dont understand that daftpunk are djs , They sample the shit out of EVERYTHING.

  • I would have never know that this song existed if it wasn't for daft punk lol

  • WOW I STILL CAN'T BELIVE THIS OMFG LISTEN IDIOTS THEESE GUYS DIDN'T RIP OFF DAFT PUNK DAFT PUNK JUST SAMPLED MANY ARTISTS SONGS AND THEY JUST HAPPEN TO SAMPLE THIS ONE FOR ROBOT ROCK GOD!!!!

  • @TheOscarlopezjr are...you...fucking.....retard­ed. oh my god.

  • @slmtutorials no?

  • @slmtutorials whooooooooshhhh

  • HOLY SHIT THEY RIPPED OFF DAFT PUNK

  • daft punk :( now i think they are fucking bad

  • all Daft Punk done was put more bass in it & add "robot rock". lol

  • @DarkAceEnt ... thus making it more intense. And awesome.

  • @HallieRetroRockstar no it means they have no creativity...

  • uber like

    

  • uber like

  • it's meeeeeeean

  • thumbs up if u came here and KNEW that the top comments would be about daft punk

  • @BloodxShotxx Where I come from, you'd be considered a thumb whore.

  • much better than the shitty repetitive daft punk version.

  • I noticed there isn't a funky reaction button

  • ROCK. ROBOT ROCK.

  • This is just.... just....FUNKALICIOUS! \o/

  • 25 people got the beast released on their ass holes.

  • Both songs are fucking great. Everybody wins. Now shut the fuck up and enjoy the funk.

  • @yukon7519 There is only one song...and a sample of it.

  • funk-out wit' your junk-out!

  • Ok guys, relax. Daft Punk didn't steal the beat. They sampled it, added beats, took away beats, and made it their own song. And it's not like they didn't give Breakwater any credit! It says on the "Human After All" album and i quote, "Robot Rock contains a sample of "Release The Beast" performed by Breakwater®" Just enjoy both songs and be happy. :)

  • somehow this is better *_*

  • "Time to release the beast"

    Sounds like "Time to release a huge dump"

  • Masterpeace of funk

    

  • i never thought that daft punk could remastered this song ! awesome !

  • hey relax, daft punk just made this song cooler....and changed some lyrics :D

  • I agree Daft punk do little work on their Robot Rock track, but I would have never heard about this track if it wasn't for them, and I bet it is the same for alot of your people. Perhaps like this comment to appease the anger you have, and others shall realise Daft Punk helped them infact.

  • Moi je dis félicitations Daft Punk :) ...Faire de l'excellent avec du déjà excellent, c'est pas simple ;)

  • daft puks robot rock and this song are awesome

    case closed.................

  • Aha! I knew I'd heard this song in a movie older than Daft Punk!

  • Salute to the O.G.s. These guys deserves their own masks hand-made by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. And salute to Daft Punk for keeping this classic tune alive. That is all.

  • Cant we just say that Daft Punk Remixed it? lol

    

  • @DandDEXPERIENCE It's hardly a remix. The majority of the song is the main riff on autorepeat.

  • ROBOT ROCK????? WTF

  • @ericrkorandy This is the origin of Daft punk's samples for the Robot rock NOT the other way around xD

  • great song, and smartly used by Daft punk

  • I think people need to give them credit for going back and listening to this good music and refreshing it by sampling it. If they didn't sample it most of the people that have viewed this video would never have come here and would never have heard the classic funk.

  • daft punk.

    thank you for making this song 10 times bad ass as this one was gotta keep the classics alive

  • While I agree with people getting frustrated at those that don't understand the sampling scene, I can particularly understand the 'rip off' and 'copy' comments for this particular song for Daft Punk's sample source.

    It's not that they sampled it, it's that they just took a fragment and looped it without, IMO, adding anything really exciting to it apart from the lyrics "Robot Rock" over the top, which were infrequent and quiet. Which is why I prefer this version.

  • It's funny how most of people consider sampling plagiarism when everything is actually paid for. Also, without sampling most modern electronic music would not exist. Hip Hop would also not exist. Stop saying stupid shit like "ripoff" "copy" "plagiarism", please educate yourselves. All credited and paid sampling is perfectly fine. TL;DR: Stop bitching about sampling

  • you guys just dont get the whole sampling dj thing right? seeesh its like collage in visual arts

  • I think at least 410,000 of the views are from me. FUNKTASTIC.

  • daft punk totally ripped them off D:

    i shall worship breakwater instead from now on

  • @FaunKeH noooo just sampleddd! das thar jooob...

  • @ThekaiserXD but the effort it took for breakwater to produce this is far more than daft punk looping a sample and putting vocals and a simple guitar riff over it.

    and who gets all the credit? i bet you 90% of the people who like daft punk have never even heard of breakwater

    i used to idolise daft punk until realising all they do is sampling and looping

  • @FaunKeH

    I dont like Daft Punk's version, they took no effort in producing it.

  • @LATQueens my point exactly :)

  • Comedy Street ftw.

  • OMG the first 6 seconds there are the separed samples lol

  • wonder how they made tht amazing riff

  • This song is so awesome, Daft Punk didn't have to make much to make another song out of it.

  • thank god daft punk reminded us of the funk!!

  • Holy shit, they ripped off Daft Punk. Then went back in time to cover it all up.

    Sneaky Bastards!!!!!!!!

  • @Phylyn51 Fuck you dude

  • @Isaacsaxtonknight Fuck you harder....Dude :)

  • @Phylyn51 Daft Punk mixed the song. This is original.

  • @tomateiro You know I was just kidding, don't you. You know......the part where I mentioned time travel!

  • @Phylyn51 Sry, i missed that part :x

  • this tune drops every time i go for a piss

  • @Electroma94 LMAO

  • LOL. Yeah that's funny. I guess breakwater had a time machine in the 80's, came to the FUTURE, sampled Daft Punk, and then went back in time and made the song!! LOL. Wake up youngins. Most of your music is sampled from old music, but your too young to know it...

  • @regusters thank god daft punk reminded us of the funk!! or am i a youngster "has been"??

  • I love Daft Punk's Robot Rock, but this is something else! *.*

    the originals are allways better!

  • This is awesome, "Robot Rock" is awesome. Everyone stop being mad about this.

  • Wtf?? ppl are saying robot rock came before this!! haha This song was looong before daft punk

  • This version is pretty cool, but I like more the original Daft Punk's version.

  • @theyoungmc There is nothing original about Daft Punk. They are DJ's not musicians. They don't "make" music which seems to be hard for a lot of people to understand, primarily newage fans who no nothing of older music. They consider what they heard first and are used to the best then put down on older vers.

    You're giving them credit for what they did not do. They didn't ask for at that. Daft Punk stated that there music was sampled but there fanatic fans live in another plain of reality.

  • @krizzex I agree they sample a hell of a lot of their stuff, but the Tron Soundtrack does prove that they are capable of writing exceptional music as well.

  • @krizzex

    but this song is identical to Daft Punk's Robot Roll , maybe these Breakwater guys are playing an uncredited cover because they're huge Daft Punk fans. Have you ever thought about that?

  • @theyoungmc No, as this song was made in 1980 as it says above. Daft Punk didn't become popular till after 2000...

    The ignorance of some of these people...it truly makes me sad.

    Daft took a single line of music from this then looped it over and over again while saying robot walk. This was an actual full song with lyrics made from scratch.

  • @krizzex Draft Punk's video looks pretty old to me, maybe it was done before 1980. I think these yellow boots guys should mention the original authors directly in the song's lyrics to avoid any incomprehension.

    It could be something like this: PUNK! DAFT PUNK ROCK! nananananaaaa PUNK! DAFT PUNK ROCK! nananananaaa and so on.. what you think?

  • @theyoungmc Dude... what is wrong with you?

    There is no if to this. Taft punk have been DJ's for 15 years. This song was released 30 years ago.

  • @theyoungmc *I meant rock.

  • just proves that these guys were ahead of their time, but daft punk were ahead of their time...but they sampled this. *head implodes*

  • I didn't know that Daft Punk has used this sample... But man this is AWESOME!

  • Honestly, this is better than Robot Rock.

  • >mfw people sayting Breakwater sampled Daft Punk

    seriously, kids? get the fuck off the internet

  • Robot Rock or the shittest part of the subtil art of sampling.

    For fuck sake, they could ever put some "housecooked" samples or effects... NO JUST COPY PASTE .. miss the days of da funk & rolling & evo 909 ....

  • @Erhnam34 if youre reminiscing about the 80s after hearing daft punk...boy youd really hate the mainstream and robot rocks probably daft punks worst use of sampling

  • @619Cola REALLY!!!!!!!! CHECK THE COPYRIGHT DATE EINSTIEN !!!!!!!!!!

    PHILLY FUNK BAND.......LATE 70'S EARLY 80'S I WAS THEIR ROADIE WHILE DJIN'

  • so daft punk removed the vocals and put their 3 word vocal in it? i like daft punk but really? why? that's kind of cheating isn't it?

  • eeeeeeeeeeeeepic

  • This is what Robot Rock SHOULD sound like. Robot Rock is too repetitive.

  • DAMN THIS IS EPIC DAFT PUNK I LOVE U!!!!!

  • daft punk almost didnt change a thing ._.

  • @Guitaristt64 lol seriously.

    Though to be fair, it's one of the least good songs. That album was so forgettable compared to their previous shit

  • @zabrak999 yeah no kidding.

    nothing compares to discovery and some stuff on homework

  • @Guitaristt64 they changed fuck all lmao

  • i luuuv their yellow boots too

  • daaaaft puuuuuuuuunk!

  • Unless someone told me this is Funk, I wouldn't think this is Funk. This sounds like some pretty hard rock. Still pretty cool, though.

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  • @maniakkid25 That's why we should try to categorize music. It's all just GOOD MUSIC...

  • I can't believe that people acutually believe that Breakwater sampled DaftPunk.

  • @chich2595 but recognize it, daft punk did better than the original XDDDD

  • @DjNiiveek Seriously? Lame

  • @chich2595 yuv been trolled.

  • Esto demuestra que las bandas publicitadas solo porque venden trinfan mas que las que son buenas tocando canciones...una lastima

  • Breakwater made 25 accounts and thumbed this down because they are jealous of Daft Punk

  • @Ograws fuck you

  • @Atu7UP ok then.......

  • I´m sure this version is younger and they sampled Daft Punk´s Robot Rock *g*

    No honestly I don`t care about that, I really like both versions and today there are a lot of DJs remixing songs. So why it is wrong to sample them?

  • every comment here is about daft punk lol

  • The only problem with this video are all the Daft Punk suggestions

  • I always knew Daft Punk used samples from this song for Robot Rock, but now I know to what extent. Kinda sad.

  • All this bickering, like incessant bantering from preschoolers saying "Nu-uh" and "Yu-huh." STFU. 

  • no homo but they kind of remind me of male strippers but with space outfits and boots:)

  • ROCK

    ROBOT ROCK

  • @baronvonbrunker PLA

    PLAGIARISM

  • @bellriderable SAMP

    SAMPLING

  • @baronvonbrunker maybe you mean ROBO ROCK (read "ROBO" and not ROBOT, in Spanish, "robo" means theft) xD

  • I don't see how anyone could prefer Robot Rock. At least this song has some variety to it.

  • @Sash5034 I don't see how anyone could prefer something over what I personally think is better.

  • Тамз ап (большой палец вверх) если вы от Ильи Огурцова (Сергей Меза)

  • Rock.... Robot Rock.... Rock.... Robot Rock....

  • Daft Punk made their most boring single ever out of the sample from this tune. Not nearly enough variation. Daft Punk is not mediocre at all, but Robot Rock is.

  • @PaulBenjaminJenkins At least they made a comeback with their live tour and live cd.

  • Daft punk only take a little part of the song and make art with it yeah !!!

  • I knew Daft punk was using samples, but this is just straight up copy and paste..

    Thought they created new layers on top of old samples...guess not...

    Ahh well, im glad that this bubble is out of my way :-)

  • This song just chants Daft Punk in my ear LOL

  • robot rock

  • Guess What?

    I Like Both! 

  • Also if it's the habit of "gods" to sample a song and change FUCKING NOTHING ABOUT IT and re-release it, then we're all deities ourselves, because it's not godlike to steal.

  • @SnakeTheFox they do change stuff and they dont steal since they bought the samples and the thing they are doing is called sampling and is a very common thing

  • @GamleSeg Typically, when you "sample" a song you actually change something other than dubbing "robot rock" over it at certain intervals. What they did was steal. Not legally, because they threw money at the problem, but musically it's theft. They added nothing to this song, and honestly just dumbed it down by dubbing over all the lyrics. Daft Punk is a mediocre group adored solely by people with very poor taste in electronic music, deal with it.

  • @SnakeTheFox faggot. daft punk took a small part of the song and ive tried sampling this to make robot rock and its not easy. they literally changed small details of the song. they looped it, and edited in their own way. so shut the fuck up. you know nothing of house music. and dont ever diss daft punk.

  • @Flashtheman2 You're kidding right? They took the guitar, changed nothing, looped it infinitely, and dubbed "robot rock" over it. That's. Fucking. It. They're just pretentious French hacks who made mediocre-to-garbage electronic music. They fucking suck, and your tastes are juvenile and insipid.

  • @SnakeTheFox They didn't change much on the surface, & they do pretty much repeat that riff and the two chords in the intro. BUT! To say that they changed nothing is incorrect. DP's production skills are as good as it gets, tons of artists try very hard and fail to have the same flavor of harmonic distortion and compression. I agree, this is hardly writing music, but to say that they're mediocre ignorant. In the world of house music, where sampling is the name of the game, they rule the roost.

  • @Al5xmo is* ignorant