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Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
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Daft Punk
Discovery
(Virgin, 2001)
Soft rock and thumping house? French duo make it work.
French songwriter and producer Daniel Vangarde's co-writing credits include The Gibson Brothers' Cuba and Ottawan's D.I.S.C.O. Another of his co-productions was his son Thomas Bangalter, one half of Parisian house music conceptualists Daft Punk. He and partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo had risen to the first division of late-'90s dance music with 1995's club smash Da Funk and the 1997's Homework album, and 2001's punningly-titled, less uptight Discovery saw the self-confessed Frampton Comes Alive fans donning robot suits and thinking themselves back into the benign brainspaces of their childhoods. This meant that, alongside steroid-injected house thumpers like opener One More Time, we had the Vocodered, TV-theme soft rock of Digital Love - which recalls both Supertramp and The Buggles while sampling George Duke's I Love You More - and the Rockit-era Herbie Hancock homage Short Circuit. Other tracks have a roboid-R&B sound in keeping with the twosome's cyber-suits - Harder Better Faster Stronger, as sampled by Kanye West for Stronger in 2007, is an ideal soundtrack for making your Citroen C4 turn into a giant ice skating robot - while the presence of several vintage-synth-embroidered easy listening slowies give pause for reflection on this playful yet serious collection. The album's also available in visual form on Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, 2003's full length animated film using all the songs, supervised by Japanese cartoon master Leiji Matsumoto, though it seems after the robotics and the animations, Daft Punk felt the need to call 2005's follow-up Human After All.
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 20/01/2010
Further Listening
Daft Punk – Homework (Virgin, 1997)
Justice – Cross (Ed Banger, 2007)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (DFA, 2007)
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