True to Tron: Legacy's Disney roots, "Rectifier" feels like it could have come out of the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" section of Fantasia, so creepy is it in its processional march and wailing violins. Pedestrian stuff by their later standards.Īnother atmospheric string-and-horn number, with some absolutely booming crescendos, but coming towards the end of Tron: Legacy, it feels inevitably redundant.Ī piano ballad yearning for humanity, with typically vocoder-drowned vocals, which proves that perhaps doing yearning piano ballads is not where the Robots' true strength lies.
One of Daft Punk's earliest remix, they take a fairly slight deep house track and give it a little muscle and edge, but still fail to derive a real hook from it. "GET FUNKY GET DOWN" (ORIGINALLY BY THE MICRONAUTS)įound On: The Micronauts non-album single
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The duo does know how to produce a real righteous horn sound, though.Ĩ0. That said, that number was even lower before a few weeks ago, when the duo released "Get Lucky," their first single in three years (and not counting live or soundtrack work, their first since 2006), and has gone up by another baker's dozen with the release of their much-anticipated Random Access Memories LP earlier this week.Ī pounding, creeping track that goes on for a little too long-it's one of the few TRON songs over four minutes, and feels it-though its Morricone-like sense of building anticipation is pretty undeniable.Ī mostly unnecessary fake radio advertisement for Homework included as the album's second track, though it rates a little higher than their other non-song songs because of the excellent reduxe clip of early single "Musique" that starts off the track, and how much fun it is to imitate the booming voice of the French radio announcer at the end of the track.Īnother minorly innocuous track from Tron: Legacy, stately and unmemorable. Though members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have been making music as Daft Punk for nearly two decades now, their discography encompasses just 86 songs-four fewer than even Taylor Swift, who was just four years when the duo released their debut single "The New Wave" back in 1994. However, one byproduct of this philosophy is a relatively shallow back catalogue. Sounds paradoxical, but by taking nearly a half-decade between each of their albums, and basically keeping totally out of the limelight in between release cycles, they manage to stay outside the trends, existing on a plane of their own, and turning it into an event whenever they actually decide to re-emerge from the shadows and release new music. Staying relevant for the long haul in the always-changing world of dance music is a near-impossible task, but French dance-pop robot-human-immortals Daft Punk may have found one way to do it-by disappearing a lot.
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