Watching the movie, I couldn't help but think that this was Daft Punk's attempt at topping their legendary pyramid tour.
TRON LEGACY SOUNDTRACK CLUB SONG MOVIE
And while the classical arrangements mark a new style for Daft Punk, it's hardly revelatory in the sphere of movie scores at large. When they pull off the combo- as on the blistering "The Game Has Changed"- it's thrilling even without an IMAX screen hijacking your senses. More often than not, each piece is either mostly synth-based (including filter-house also-rans "Derezzed" and "Tron Legacy (End Titles)") or symphonic ("Nocturne", "Outlands"). The Tron: Legacy score's supposed innovation is combining an orchestra style with electronics, but the meshing of the two styles is rare and rudimentary. Daft Punk's score plays a vital role in making this poorly scripted mega movie seem bigger and more important than it actually is.Įven so, it hems frustratingly close to the sweeping classical film music style pioneered by John Williams ( Star Wars) and picked up by Howard Shore ( The Lord of the Rings) and Hans Zimmer ( The Dark Knight). Naturally, the music synchs a hell of a lot better when you're watching the stunning images it was made to accompany. And the music follows suit with endless crescendos of pounding timpani drums and monolithic strings. Almost all of the post-Han Solo humor that buoyed the original Tron is replaced by a thunderous seriousness (and blue-black color scheme) more akin to The Dark Knight. Most of the movie takes place in a virtual world that doesn't know sunlight- it's like a futuristic version of Tolkien's Mordor. When I watched it in IMAX 3D it was easy to revert back to my younger self and just gawk at the exquisite whiz-bang of it all. Tron: Legacy is rated PG and aimed at igniting the imaginations of 10-year-old boys. Dick-worthy, and they're oftentimes a huge bummer to boot. Most of the robot doomsaying can't compare with their ebullient side their apocalyptic visions are hardly Philip K. Electroma's two metal-machine leads commit harrowing self-destruct suicides. But their mechanized fantasies have gotten continually darker since then- consider the much more sinister robo effects on Human After All's "The Brainwasher" and "Television Rules the Nation". And Discovery's accompanying animated movie, Interstella 5555, was a bright and fun technicolor cartoon. On Discovery tracks like "Digital Love", "Something About Us", and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", they employed robotic voice effects to bring out the childlike naïveté of artificial intelligence. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo have flexed their robot obsession for years, but its nature has changed. The score keeps another trend going, too. Daft Punk haven't even attempted a can't-miss song in at least five years, and the Tron: Legacy soundtrack keeps that unfortunate streak alive. Their 2006 art-house indulgence Electroma went even further as it was directed by the twosome yet featured no new music. The pyramid, the gleaming helmets, and the lite-bright leather jackets brought Daft Punk's greatest hits to a holy, undiscovered realm. Since their last proper LP, 2005's Human After All, the pair staged the greatest dance music tour of all time- one that blasted its audience with enough visual stimuli to leave them blinking stars for hours. Over the course of the last decade, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have increasingly relied on images to complement- and sometimes justify- their music. Check it out below.Daft Punk aren't the same two guys who made Homework and Discovery. That’d be great.”Īpparently that was all true and the music has been released! New tracks like “Sea of Simulation,” “Castor,” “Reflections,” and more are now available to stream on all streaming services. I wouldn’t be surprised if we try to do that at some point. Disney needs some other revenue streams right now. Though, he seemingly did confirm it, following it up with, “Someday it would be nice to figure out some way to share that. “I can neither confirm nor deny that there may be some incredible music that we weren’t able to fit in the movie,” he said. Now, seemingly out of nowhere, they’ve returned with The Complete Edition to the soundtrack, including an additional 9 tracks.īack in July in an interview with Collider, TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski hinted at unreleased music from the movie.
Behind Random Access Memories, it was one of the last collections of music they released. It’s been a decade since Daft Punk released TRON: Legacy, their soundtrack to the movie sequel of the same name.
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