Taking a cue from the groundbreaking work of Clint Mansell - in a former life, vocalist for Pop Will Eat Itself - "Tron : Legacy" is easily Daft Punk best work so far, and one of the finest contemporary soundtracks of the past decade. Who can listen to "Also Sprach Zarathustra" without thinking of the rotating space station? Who hasn't at some point, pulled off some personal coup and thought about the rising, rousing Indiana Jones theme as they walked down the street after? Maybe it's just me.Īdd another name to the list : Daft Punk. Their work has become both unextractable from the films, and separate, eternal pieces of music.
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The Golden Age of the Movie Soundtrack started, in earnest, with the names Bernard Hermann. Would anyone have minded if modern movies don't contain a carelessly shoehorned in rock or bad rap song? Nothing dates faster than the date itself. I don't think anyone cares or wants to remember that Nickelback soundtracked a Spiderman movie. Many modern soundtracks evoke disgust in me. No longer confined by instrumentation, the soundtrack as a genre can, in my mind, be more clearly defined as music that evokes feeling.
And by classical, I do not mean the use of traditional orchestral instruments, but a genre that works in a very specific of structure : where elements are not confined to verse, chorus, middle-eight, break, but to a set of overlapping textures, recurring themes and multiple motifs, as well as the knowledge that What You Leave Out Is As Important As What You Leave In. The Movie Soundtrack is the modern classical genre. I've already heard various pieces of the soundtrack used in adverts and I can understand why - it's simply amazing music.įor the price their asking it's almost being given away so don't be shy! 10/10 the list goes on but I have to say I like how the guys have come up with a hook and really explore it musically. Around the World was just the same vamp over and over to almost hypnotic but stunning effect (and with that video it's just even better.), Aerodynamic with it's guitar arpeggio's.Robot Rock. I can't deny there is repetition here but that's what Daft Punk do. I've seen in other reviews that the repetitiveness of the music has put some people off a little. I find it rare these days to be as conscious of the music in films, to me this soundtrack was an equal to what I was seeing onscreen but the combined effect of the amazing visuals and sound add up to something far more than the sum of their parts. If a sountrack can ever be said to be 'good' based on how well it fits with the visuals then this soundtrack is surely one of the best. Listening to the soundtrack in isolation I find my mind filled with imagery from the film - no bad thing as both the music and visuals from the film are things of complete beauty. The pallete Daft Punk have drawn from is wonderfully varied and most tracks have a beautifully realised electronic motif interwoven with more traditional orchestral arrangement to stunning effect. Of course the original Tron is rooted way back in 1982 and Daft Punk's retro vibes do tip their hat to that very different era whilst delivering something completely modern at the same time - not an easy task but it's done with a very sure hand here.
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When you think about it Daft Punk were an obvious choice for this soundtrack, not in a lazy 'oh yeah, they do electronic sounding music' kind of way but in the way their music has such texture and feels simultaneously rooted in the past but bang up to date - perfect for an update of such a classic film. It's hard to believe this is Daft Punk's first movie soundtrack, they've been around for years after all, but what a piece of work this is.
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