Four long years after their debut, Homework, Daft Punk returned with a second full-length, also packed with excellent productions and many of the obligatory nods to the duo's favorite stylistic speed bumps of the 1970s and '80s. Discovery is by no means the same record, though. Deserting the shrieking acid house hysteria of their early work, the album moves in the same smooth filtered disco circles as the European dance smashes ("Music Sounds Better With You" and "Gym Tonic") co-produced by DP's Thomas Bangalter during the group's long interim. If Homework was Daft Punk's Chicago house record, this is definitely the New York garage edition, with co-productions and vocals from Romanthony and Todd Edwards, two of the brightest figures based in New Jersey's fertile garage scene. Also in common with classic East Coast dance and '80s R&B, Discovery surprisingly focuses on songwriting and concise productions, though the pair's visions of bucolic pop on "Digital Love" and "Something About Us" are delivered by an androgynous, vocoderized frontman singing trite (though rather endearing) love lyrics. "One More Time," the irresistible album opener and first single, takes Bangalter's "Music Sounds Better With You" as a blueprint, blending sampled horns with some retro bass thump and the gorgeous, extroverted vocals of Romanthony going round and round with apparently endless tweakings. Though "Aerodynamic" and "Superheroes" have a bit of the driving acid minimalism associated with Homework, here Daft Punk is more taken with the glammier, poppier sound of Eurodisco and late R&B. Abusing their pitch-bend and vocoder effects as though they were going out of style (about 15 years too late, come to think of it), the duo loops nearly everything they can get their sequencers on -- divas, vocoders, synth-guitars, electric piano -- and conjures a sound worthy of bygone electro-pop technicians from Giorgio Moroder to Todd Rundgren to Steve Miller. Daft Punk are such stellar, meticulous producers that they make any sound work, even superficially dated ones like spastic early-'80s electro/R&B ("Short Circuit") or faux-orchestral synthesizer baroque ("Veridis Quo"). The only problems on Discovery arise when Daft Punk compensate for the album's lack of six-minute dance tracks by including a few too many half-developed productions like "High Life" and the ambient piece "Nightvision." One other crime is burying the highlight of the entire LP near the end. "Face to Face," a track with garage wunderkind Todd Edwards, twists his trademarked split-second samples and fully fragmented vision of garage into a dance-pop hit that could've easily stormed the charts in 1987. Daft Punk even manage a sense of humor about their own work, closing with a ten-minute track aptly titled "Too Long."
The French do it best! Daft Punk probably ranks top or almost top (before or after J.U.S.T.I.C.E) to my all-time faved electronica/techno artists. The guys started sometime in 1987, so they must probably be middle aged men. I'm not saying they're old, but if my dad is one of the world's most renowned music gurus, then I'd probably have one helluva-SHWEET life. The duo is considered one of the...
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Here is a song that most people have heard but that rarely knows from who it is, Daft Punk is the way to go! I love 'em!
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i was up late last night watching daft punk's electronic musical "interstella 5555." im surprised that i let it slip by me, seeing that it came out in 2003.so this is what I5555 is. Every track on daft punk's "Discovery" album was accompanied by an anime episode. its a great story and the quality of animation is solid. you will even see Daft Punk make a cameo.Every track is a killer, i mean com...
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So two of my best friends have back to back birthdays... Happy Birthday April! For celebration, I've posted a Daft Punk track "Crescendolls".This song is really deep; here are some of the lyrics "Weeee! Hey! Crescendolls HEY!"I think that Daft Punk was trying to get a specific message across. I think the setting is this chick who has been on hiatus from work for 3 1/2 months and just can't hand...
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...from the "nothing-new-under-the-sun" Dept: ever hear a cut that made you think of something else that had absolutely nothing to do with said artist performing the song? The Daft Punk Video for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" totally reminded me of the cartoon series Star Blazers which pre-dated the slick anime we see now... maybe it's the drawings but I kept expecting to see Derek Wildsta...
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I'm digging this Qee Bear party video of Adam Freeland's remix of Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic": Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland - "Aer OBAMA" from Gold Greendot on Vimeo. Found this in Mog's Music Network (aka MMN) via We.like.it.indie's post:Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland: Aer OBAMA video What do you think? (Lookin at you Rawkkiddoh! Do you ever film what yr uber-cool toys get up to at night?) I'm gu...
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...from the "nothing-new-under-the-sun" Dept: ever hear a cut that made you think of something else that had absolutely nothing to do with said artist performing the song? The Daft Punk Video for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" totally reminded me of the cartoon series Star Blazers which pre-dated the slick anime we see now... maybe it's the drawings but I kept expecting to see Derek Wildsta...
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while I was enjoying my morning cop-o-java, made from the cheapest coffee my company could buy, and chowing on a tasty nature Valley granola bar, I came across a great blog post by my good friend ADAH, met her through a mutual friend Dansemcabre.It seems that the website Vanatta created, MOGPEEPS, is only frequented by Tyler Durden, Adah, and Dansemcabre, despite 30+ members -> anyway, on ADAH'...
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i was up late last night watching daft punk's electronic musical "interstella 5555." im surprised that i let it slip by me, seeing that it came out in 2003.so this is what I5555 is. Every track on daft punk's "Discovery" album was accompanied by an anime episode. its a great story and the quality of animation is solid. you will even see Daft Punk make a cameo.Every track is a killer, i mean com...
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I really didn't like this second LP from Daft Punk very much for about the first year or so it was out. But after a while I was really drawn to it. It's very, well, not American in it's musical stylings, that would make sense being that these guys are from France. Makes me want to hit the discos in Europe for sure...
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You gotta hand it to him, the kid's got talent. He must have had a lot of time on his hands when he made this. Please put your hands together for the amazing, the incredible, Daft Hands!!! Ok enough with the puns, just watch.
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Do you still think daily about someone who is no longer a part of your life? Do you still wish them well even though things may have ended acrimoniously or chaotically? Do you wish you could stop thinking about them?Please comment with answers to any and/or all of the above questions. This has been Party Pose's "Jenny Jones" question of the day. Thank you.
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Read the rest of their adventures here! http://www.myspace.com/daftbodies
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Well there goes my whole theory that during the Greek show, Daft Punk was merely playing extended and hard-core games of Tetris. But now the truth is out there. They were actually doing stuff… musical stuff.This is a shot of the INSIDE OF THE PYRAMID ! HOLY JUNK !Compliments of "mixmag":http://www.mixmag.net/, then "The Daily Swarm":http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/daft-punk-alive-2007-tour-a.
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What in God's name is going on in world of commercials? First we had John Lydon of Sex Pistols fame dressed in stately home regalia flogging Country Life butter (whose sales, I hear, have risen considerably as a result). Following that, Iggy Pop stuffed the remnants of his dignity down the bog by advertising car insurance. Car insurance!!! And last night, I watched agog, as the latest Pantene ...
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Heads up to every fan out there! Daft Punk 's One More Time gets the remix treatment by a possibly unknown/lesser-known group and damn, it's is something. If you are one of the millions of DJ's who want to reach rockdom like Daft Punk , you may want to remix any of the hits from them or any other indie group with credentials to boot. When it comes to Daft Punk, everyone stops to listen. ...
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The French do it best! Daft Punk probably ranks top or almost top (before or after J.U.S.T.I.C.E) to my all-time faved electronica/techno artists. The guys started sometime in 1987, so they must probably be middle aged men. I'm not saying they're old, but if my dad is one of the world's most renowned music gurus, then I'd probably have one helluva-SHWEET life. The duo is considered one of the...
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I was just talking to my roommates about how concert promoters have a way of hyping a show/band that can make you feel duped afterward.Back in 1997 I saw the first OzzFest tour. It was billed as the last time Black Sabbath (w/ Mike Bordin filling in for original drummer Bill Ward) would play. The lineup included Pantera and Marilyn Manson. But then the next year they did it again, complete wit...
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Attention wannabe up-and-coming DJs: one great way to get an unfamiliar name (like yours) out there — remix Daft Punk's "One More Time." If you want to listen to a dirty remix of Daft Punk's classic by an electro duo with an ever dirtier name (Rynecologist?!), this remix is for you. You know you want to [...]
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| 1 One More Time |
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| 2 Aerodynamic |
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| 3 Digital Love |
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| 4 Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger |
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| 5 Crescendolls |
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| 6 Night Vision |
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| 7 Superheroes |
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| 8 High Life |
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| 9 Something About Us |
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| 10 Voyager |
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| 11 Veridis Quo |
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| 12 Short Circuit |
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| 13 Face to Face |
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| 14 Too Long |
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