![]() ![]() I called Brian and was like, 'Yeah, dude, we went far enough!'"Įver since 2003's Waking the Fallen, the O.C. This went from Steely Dan/Zappa to Stevie Wonder/Daft Punk to Wizard of Oz/Frank Sinatra real quick!' I'd never freaked myself out with my own music before. "I was kind of sleepy and lying there, listening to it with the volume down, and then all of a sudden I almost had a heart attack. "We wrote them as one song, but recorded them individually, so this was the first time we were actually able to put them together since the demo," he recalls. Brave and uncompromising, the album sounds as fresh as ever and has influenced a range of artists in a variety of genres.But Shadows remained unconvinced, at least until he received Andy Wallace's finished mixes of "G," "(O)rdinary" and "(D)eath," the genre-obliterating three-song suite that climaxes the album. It pushed the envelope in every possible direction while introducing robot Daft Punk to the world and establishing their trademark sound. In simple terms, Discovery is a cornerstone in dance music history. To support this, Daft Punk enlisted the help of Japanese anime artist Leiji Matsumoto to create the animated film Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which links all the Discovery music together with a narrative. Bangalter and De Homem-Christo have suggested that it is a representation of their childhood, with varying themes and musical styles that are supposed to show how receptive we are to various influences as children before adulthood makes us more singular in our tastes. This eclectic mix allowed them to focus more on lyrics and song structure – and, in turn, helped shape an overall theme for the album.ĭiscovery is believed to be a concept album. The enhanced production values and emphasis on live instrumentation helped Daft Punk move away from the house sound that had previously defined them, towards elements of disco, ambient, funk and electro R&B. A step up from its predecessor in every way, Discovery is a much slicker album whose musical ambition is palpable from the off using samples as their starting point for each track, Bangalter and De Homem-Christo layered live instrumentation on top until the original sample is almost unrecognisable. Stravinsky supposedly said, “A good composer does not imitate he steals.” If that’s true, then Daft Punk are some of the world’s best thieves. Flush with the fame Homework had given them, the duo also found themselves able to leverage collaborations with producers they’d always been fans of, including Todd Edwards and Romanthony, who helped further push the duo’s vision for Discovery. It was a time Daft Punk to move into new territory.Įarly in the recording process, Bangalter and De Homem-Christo decided to avoid making another album full of house tracks and began experimenting with musical styles and song structures. It was a time for reinvention and bold new steps. Released on 12 March 2001, Discovery emerged at a time when fears over the Millennium Bug had subsided and a new world was there for the taking. If Daft Punk’s debut album, Homework, was the sound of raw material from within a sampler, then Discovery is the sound of that sampler exploding into life, ushering in a new era for both Daft Punk and dance music in general. ![]() Both men put their ears closer to the hardware just as it explodes – they subsequently awake to a startling discovery: they are no longer human, but have become robots…Īt least that’s the story Daft Punk gave to reporters ahead of the release of their second album, Discovery. For a brief moment, the noise the sampler makes as it breaks sounds as if it could work in a different track. As they play the track through one more time, a coffee gets spilled over a sampler. It’s 9.09am and the regret of pulling an all-nighter really starts to settle in. They’ve been up all night, picking apart every single detail of one track. The name of the studio is Daft House, and the men are Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo – aka Daft Punk. Two men are recording music at their home studio in Paris, France.
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