In actuality however, the pursuit of Daft Punk took years to complete, beginning even before the Tron reboot had a director on board, with various Disney execs trying and failing to get to the band or come anywhere near to getting them to sign on the line. So, it didn’t take a genius to put Tron 2 and the two Daft Punk members together. In 2007 Daft Punk were at the height of their Alive 2007 touring exploits, manning their famous black pyramid which, at the climax of the show, would pulse with neon edging in the manner of the under-appreciated, often maligned 1992 classic Tron.
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The story of Daft Punk’s involvement with the Tron: Legacy movie soundtrack is an odd one, but at its heart it’s Disney executives making the less than crazy ‘leap’ of teaming a digital, classic sci-fi reboot movie in need of a soundtrack with a world-famously hip electronic band consisting of two robots…
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Perhaps most tellingly, after the 16- and 14-track volumes of Homework and Discovery, Human After All is spent at an adequate (but less than luxurious) 10, with one track, On/Off, being nothing more than a 20-second-long blast of TV noise. Sure, Technologic is smarter and fresher and more original but Robot Rock remains irresistible - despite it owing a major debt to Breakwater’s Release The Beast. Simply put, we have to select single Robot Rock from the bunch, simply by virtue of it being the best track on board. We offer a hat-doff to the bizarre Glitter-beat of The Prime Time of Your Life, but track four, Steam Machine, feels like a poor imitation of previous greats, and sets the scene for further shoulder-shrugging mehs to come.
Title track Human After All elegantly exhibits the new simplicity but fails to ignite or expand upon its basic idea, notching up a 5:20 running time without particularly going anywhere or setting the scene for any kind of (much expected) DP revolution. But remember, every band has to have one, and DP’s lowest ebb is still an awe-inspiring listen, despite a fleeting number 10 UK chart placing and a number 98 US Billboard appearance. It feels more than a little mean to talk about 2005’s Human After All as Daft Punk’s ‘low point’.
Surprisingly, despite being instantly recognisable and known as a DP classic, Aerodynamic only reached number 97 in the UK upon its single release and was the B-side of the more conventionally melodic Digital Love in the States (number nine in the Billboard club charts). The clangs return and the final movement, from 2:28, is suddenly pure Wendy Carlos, reworking that arpeggio with warm analogue synths over a 100% synthetic beat. That this finger-tapping Halen-esque arpeggio (easily as hard-rocking as any card-carrying metal) is then fused over the Sledge beat without the listener crying foul is even more remarkable.
However, it’s the central ‘metal’ movement that really seals the deal. While it was lead single (and track one) One More Time that served as the perfect introduction to this delightful confection, our pick from Discovery is Aerodynamic, a disco/rock/electronic track in three movements that clock in at a combined three minutes and 30 seconds.Īfter the doomy clanging intro we’re quickly neck-deep in a crunchy, bit-crushed and flanged shuffling beat lifted (but sliced and resequenced) from Sister Sledge’s 1982 album track, Il Macquillage Lady. If Homework was them searching for something that made them different, then Discovery was them finding it. This wasn’t just music to get them noticed, this was the music they genuinely wanted to make. Rather than plunder the zeitgeist with a rack of on-trend tunes and then either simply disappear or rebrand in order to wipe history and begin again, Daft Punk really meant it. Instead of an album bent on redefining the boundaries of ‘music’ and taking your ears on a journey as painful as it is interesting, Discovery, from lead track One More Time to Too Long, is a wiser, smarter affair that pushes the dial to eight, where it sounds great, rather than 10 just because it can.Īnd it’s well worth considering that the band had spent four years making it. If 1997’s Homework was an interesting, highly credible curio, then 2001’s follow-up, Discovery, was the band official sealing the deal - Daft Punk were something special and they were going to stick around and take some time to explain exactly why.ĭiscovery goes next level with smoother, more palatable, less caustic soundscapes.
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