Matsumoto/Daft Punk Videos Online

mvw noted that Toonami is serving up the four videos directed by Star Blazers creator Leiji Matsumoto for the first four tracks on Daft Punk album Discovery. The album is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite CDs. The videos are impressive too, telling a continuing story through each of the four songs with that distinctive style. Anyway, I was just pleased to see them online since I only got to see them once when Toonami aired them. and figured others would enjoy this.

Comments

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[outerspace]

Daft Punk is incredible. Their first album introduced their intelligent minimal underground sound. But Daft Punk has NOT changed much of their root sound. Those who think they suck now, please listen again to Homework: you hear Discovery everywhere.

Their second album sounds less like Homework because:
- they use vocals in Discovery
- they shorten their dance breaks and beats
- they use a vocoder
- One More Time got radio play as a pop hit
- most people think that Homework is only Around The World and Da Funk
- many people think that Discovery is One More Time

Please try out Homework again and invert your habits -- listen the whole album, including Rollin' and Scratchin', Burnin' and Pheonix, instead of Da Funk and Around The World.

Listen to some live sets (with DaftClub) from their 1997 tour, and you'll hear the same styles used in Discovery.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[MisterPo]

Phoenix?

The indie act that spawned Daft Punk, had a guitarist who left to form his own band. Branco started the indescribable "Phoenix" (well OK, West Coast American FM pop rock, power pop thrash, jazz rock country).

Check out their excellent album "United" for some amazingly fresh sounds and see how the influences that shaped DP can also be found (Funky Square Dance!). This album should be a mess, but its instead superb.

Regards,

Po

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[Elwood P Dowd]

Daft Punk was *always* about being the thing that they parody. Read this review. He seems to get it. Also, "One More Time" is more subversive than anything else they've done. It's *fantastic*. Sure, it sounds silly at first. So listen again, watch the four videos, and read this review.