Dissect - Revealing Season 14's Artist! Begins March 17.

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

Dissect Season 14 begins Tuesday, March 17 on Spotify, Netflix, or wherever you're listening. Today, Cole reveals the artist being dissected and details the many reasons why this season is unique.Listen to Cole’s Daft Punk 101 playlist.Host: Cole CuchnaProducer: Justin SaylesEditor: Iulia CiobanuTheme: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dissect is returning with its 14th season on Tuesday, March 17th, and this year we're dissecting Drumroll please. Here, let me take this thing off. It's Daft Punk. Yes, we're putting one of the most influential acts of the 21st century under the microscope, and not just one of their albums, but all four. Most of our time will be spent with their two Masterworks discovery and random access memories, but we're also diving into homework, human after all, and the iconic Alive 2007 tour. Why? Because as Dap Punk confirmed themselves, their collective discography actually forms a single narrative, an intentional decades-long performance art project meant to examine our evolving relationship with machines, ultimately questioning how we preserve our humanity

and the age of rapid technological acceleration. So yeah, kind of the perfect theme for 2026. Now, I know Dap Punk is a bit of a pivot for Dysect since I usually focus on hip-hop artists, But if you're a fan of Dissect, I can guarantee you're a fan of Daft Punk. You just might not know it yet. And for those of you unfamiliar with their catalog, I've put together a playlist of Daft Punk's essential tracks plus a few of my personal favorites that you can listen to before the season begins, the links in the description. Now, another thing that's different about this season is that Daftunk's music is largely

instrumental as opposed to the lyric-heavy world of hip-hop. That's allowing me to spend a lot more time on production and music theory, which I think you're really going to enjoy. There's a reason daft punk are considered one of the most influential acts of this century, and I'm getting into the weeds on the techniques and samples that earned them this reputation. In episode one alone, you'll learn what they have in common with Beethoven and how to build a synth tone from scratch. I'm also excited to dive into the history of electronic music because I'm not sure how many people realized that house and techno didn't begin in Europe, but were actually born in Chicago and Detroit, pioneered largely by black American

musicians. So as you can probably tell, I'm very much looking forward to this season. So I hope you join me for the premiere this Tuesday, March 17th on Spotify, Netflix, or wherever else you might be listening to this. I'll talk to you then.