Music : Electro / Techno : Lossless
Daft Punk - Discovery (FLAC-EAC-CUE)
Daft Punk
Real Name:
Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Profile:
Paris natives, Guy Manuel de Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter, met at Lycee Carnot in Paris in 1987. Taking their name from a Melody Maker reviewer’s description of an earlier project fronted by the duo called Darlin’, Daft Punk was born in 1994 when they released their debut Alive on the Soma label.
In 1996 they sign with Virgin Music and release Homework in 1997 to critical acclaim and commercial success. Both also start their independent house labels Roulé and Crydamoure during this time.
Playfully shunning the limelight the pair were often interviewed but their faces are concealed in photographs. In September 1999, Daft Punk is co-opted by Robots with the “9/99 bug” who take control of the group and speak in place if Guy Manuel and Thomas at interviews.
Discovery is released in 2001. Its lighter and poppier sound marks a departure from the more orthodox house sound of the first album. In 2003 the full Discovery album is the soundtrack for Leiji Matsumoto’s DVD “Intersella 555”, an anime/mango space opera.
2005 sees the release of Human After All. The third album release is diverse and fresh whist retaining their trademark Daft Punk sound. 10 years of cult hits and rarities are released in the anthology, Musique Vol 1 1993-2005 in April 2006.
Here is an album review from allmusic.com
Quote:
Review by John Bush
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."
CD Pressing Information
Label: Virgin Records (UK)
Catalog#: CDVX 2940
Format: CD
Country: UK
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Disco
Notes:
This edition contained the 'Daft Club' membership card.
Track 3 contains a sample of "I Love You More" written by George Duke.
Track 4 contains a sample of "Cola Bottle Baby" written by Edwin Birdsong.
Track 5 contains a sample of "Can You Imagine" written by Dwight Brewster & Aleta Jennings, performed by The Imperials.
Track 7 contains a sample of "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed" written by Barry Manilow & Marty Panzer.
Track List
Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
01. One More Time 05:20
02. Aerodynamic 03:27
03. Digital Love 04:58
04. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger 03:44
05. Crescendolls 03:31
06. Nightvision 01:44
07. Superheroes 03:57
08. High Life 03:21
09. Something About Us 03:51
10. Voyager 03:47
11. Veridis Quo 05:44
12. Short Circuit 03:26
13. Face To Face 04:00
14. Too Long 10:00
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