Night Facilities. He made the whole thing up himself, board posts and all.

Not exactly on the level of Erol or that guy from Hot Chip.

As a blogger, what made this story plausible to me, was Headphone Sex’ initial report, stating they received a comment from TB@daftalive.com. As Daftalive.com is an official Daft Punk site, I figured, damn, must be true. And it sounds a lot like the early Roule releases Bangalter was putting out.

At the time, I didn’t really bother taking into account the process of leaving a comment on a blog. Basically, you can type in whatever you like you could be the Pope and enter your address as thepope@thevatican.com with a D/L link.

However, the more thought I put into it, it didn’t really add up, all things considered. If Daft was to orchestrate something along these lines using the web as their medium, they are going to “go big”. They are not going to leave trite little comments on random blogs, that’s way too easy. Daft Punk takes on challenges and they innovate. Musically speaking, as far as the production is concerned, yeah, it sounded like it could be Daft, but Daft from 10 years ago. Why the hell would Thomas back pedal?

Below is an excerpt from a post on http://www.Musicnews2u.com that just got sent to me that gives further explanation. (I have yet to peep Mr. Laroche’s myspace, this will be fun!)

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http://musicnews2u.com/2008/02/18/how-a-fake-daft-punk-track-became-
the-biggest-record-in-the-world-until-it-got-outed-hoaxes/

“The producer of this “cheap” track turned out to be U.K. producer Louis La Roche, whose MySpace page now reads “I’m not Thomas Bangalter!” and who quickly took to the comments boxes himself to explain that he had no idea who was behind the totally not at all intentional leak/mix-up. (To be fair, this is not the first time a track has been mistakenly attributed to Bangalter at first. Eric Prydz’s delightfully crappy Steve Winwood-sampling “Call On Me” was widely credited to the filter king when it initially started floating around as any MP3 back in 2003.) If La Roche was the one behind the brief hoax, he should have worked the rumor mill a little longer. A Stereogum or Forkcast retraction would have put that MySpace “Profile Views” count through the roof.”

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So, If Louis Laroche didn’t send this out, he must know who did. Was the track posted anywhere else before making its “debut” as the mysterious “TB Love track”? Because most producers, upon finishing a new track send it to a few select, trusted, individuals, before anyone else hears it. I find it very hard to believe that he does not know who sent it out. For one of his mates to be so bold and pull this prank without him knowing, highly unlikely.
Someone put thought and effort into this, and yeah, it’s brilliant for what it is, however, Pedro’s comment may have caused the whole thing to backfire.

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From DIS: http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2946399

“It’s of course not a new track from daft punk,” read the response from Pedro Winter, AKA Ed Banger boss Busy P.

“It sounds really cheap…”.

Catty, though we’re sure the track’s real owner is none-too-bothered – ‘Louis La Roche’ is, apparently, the anonymous alter-ego of a well-known English producer.

Erol Alkan? Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard? Paul Epworth? What d’YOU reckon? Either way, a shit ton more people have now heard his track. You can too, at Louis La Roche’s MySpace.”

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So, who’s gonna fess up?!?

I can’t find the link to this, but yesterday, when I was doing research on this I was reading comments at http://www.erolalkan.co.uk/forum/ that said “I spoke to Justice, and they have confirmed it was Daft!

Tee hee : )

Oh, and IP’s - anyone track those mysterious “TB” comments ; )

Off to see this Louis Laroche Myspace now . . .

AP

Neither did I fall for the fake Justice track a couple weeks ago, are bloggers gullible or just too eager to be the first onto something?