Bangalter and de Homem-Christo began experimenting with electronic music, taking their new project's name from that review and drawing inspiration from pioneers such as Todd Edwards , Juan Atkins , Kraftwerk , Frankie Knuckles , and many more. The label released the duo's debut single, "The New Wave," in April Instantly hailed by the dance music press as the work of a new breed of house innovators, it was followed by May 's "Da Funk," the band's first true hit the record sold 30, copies worldwide and saw thorough rinsings by everyone from Kris Needs to the Chemical Brothers.
The album reached number three in France and stayed on the chart for over a year, while the singles "Da Funk," "Around the World," "Burnin'," and "Revolution " charted in France, the U. The duo supported the record with the Daftendirekt tour, while the Homework video collection D. To follow their breakthrough debut album, de Homem-Christo and Bangalter reached back to their childhoods in the '70s and '80s and sought to fuse technology with humanity.
Featuring contributions from heroes such as Romanthony , Edwards , and DJ Sneak , Discovery was an even bigger hit than its predecessor. The album peaked at number two in France and the U. That November saw the release of Alive , an edit of the duo's Birmingham, England stop on the Daftendirekt tour.
Daft Punk capped the Discovery era in with Interstella The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, an animated film they produced with anime and manga creator Leiji Matsumoto that used the album as its soundtrack.
For Daft Punk 's third album, the duo took a drastically different approach. Created in six weeks -- as opposed to the two years they spent making Discovery -- with a handful of gear that included an eight-track machine, March 's Human After All was a deliberately raw, stark set of songs inspired by George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Though its cold, repetitive feel drew polarized reactions, the album fared well commercially: Human After All reached number three in France, was a Top Ten hit in the U.
April saw the arrival of Musique, Vol. An experimental sci-fi film about a pair of robots seeking to become human, it began as the video for Human After All 's title track before expanding into a feature film unlike Interstella , the movie did not feature any of Daft Punk 's music. Initially earning mixed reviews, over time Electroma won a cult audience. That year, the duo embarked on the Alive tour, which lasted through and featured some of Daft Punk 's most ambitiously staged live sets.
Appearing in November , Alive documented the tour. Daft Punk returned with new music in November in the form of the score to Joseph Kosinski 's feature film Tron: Legacy.
A collaboration with Joseph Trapanese , who arranged and orchestrated the pair's compositions, it featured an piece orchestra as well as Daft Punk 's signature electronics. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo also appeared in the film in a brief cameo. The soundtrack eventually reached number four on the Billboard Albums chart in the U. The album it was ostensibly supporting, Human After All, a rough-hewn reaction to the glossy production of Discovery, had been met with poor reviews.
The duo themselves were extremely coy about kickstarting EDM. Others were not so circumspect. In truth, Daft Punk always seemed apart from any scene, a step ahead of the music they inspired: at the commercial height of EDM, they began protesting that technological advances had made making music too easy and formulaic, and released Random Access Memories, an album immersed in the late 70s and early 80s. No explanation was given for the split. What even is this song? It's got a beat so heavy, it is sometimes reminiscent of hardstyle's affront.
There are ray-gun pew pews, space-travel noises. There really is no other song like this I can think of, simultaneously anxiety-inducing and balls-to-the-wall fun. It is like the soundtrack to an interstellar superhero final fight. I spent my entire childhood trying to figure out what these lyrics were saying. Just wow. How could you not love this song? All those samples cut up and mashed together to create this awesome, chunky melody.
Much of this song's signature style is thanks to Todd Edwards, the American house producer Daft Punk credits as one of its biggest influences.
He co-produces and sings on this Discovery favorite, and c'mon. These lyrics? This is what great songwriting is made of. Any time my buddy plays a closing DJ set, this is the last track he plays. It's honestly the perfect send-off, wrap-up jam. Try it next time you have the chance and watch everyone embrace their friends with happy tears in their eyes.
This song expresses something so deep but not often celebrated. We've all had a love like this, the passionately doomed love you know can only fail, but it doesn't really matter. Those loves matter, too. Also, this is the least cheesy smooth jazz funk love song I've ever heard. You know it emulates the weird stuff your parents listened to that made you feel slightly uncomfortable as a kid, and yet, this fits like a warm hug.
And of course they say yes, because it's amazing. That beat is so good. Loop it again! It's one of the most repetitive offerings in the Daft Punk song catalog, but dude, this beat is so good!
Loop it again. It was the beginning of a new era. Music, business and your social life had a completely new set of vocab words. Daft Punk dedicate these lyrics to the wild, new universe of Internet-based creation, collaboration and consumption.
Having said lyrics memorized is a true testament to one's Daft Punk fandom. That baby bot is the stuff of absolute nightmares. Like, you gave him gums, but not a mouth?
What a twisted creator, indeed. The fifth track of Discovery is pure rising motion, hence the title, right? It's the sound of rainbow pastel confetti in a ticker-tape parade. It's a sugary cupcake smashed all over your face, and you have to jump up and down to get the icing off.
Ironic how Daft Punk juxtapose this overwhelming joy with the complete disassociation of the main characters in Interstellar , the full-length anime counterpart to Discovery 's sonic majesty. Nah, dude. One of the best guitar solos of all time. This song came out in , and I'm pretty sure the world had never heard anything like it. I know it rocked the face off of me and my friends. The first is an edgy funk build, the second is a rampage of a double-hand heavy metal guitar solo.
Back to Homework and Daft Punk's fabulous use of street sounds and urban nightlife samples. This is the beginning of Daft Punk's great love affair with repetition, layers and funky synthesized roars. Don't try to interpret the music video. Just enjoy it for what it is. They'd spent two decades clipping, chopping and rearranging '70s and '80s disco and soul records.
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