He is friends with film director Gaspar Noé, scoring Irréversible, assisting with the sound design of Enter the Void, and providing two songs to the soundtrack of Climax. Thomas Bangalter has produced many dance recordings under his own name and aliases, including the (very-short-lived) supergroup Stardust, which scored an international hit with "Music Sounds Better with You". They're also known for their individual work. The group was tapped by Disney to score TRON: Legacy in 2010 their end product, evocative of electronic music of the '70s and '80s, was made in line with (and as a tribute to) Wendy Carlos' original score for TRON. While its repetitive sound divided fans and critics, public opinions warmed up thanks to their second live album, Alive 2007, which recontextualized their first three albums by heading deep into mashup territory in a never-before-seen stage show consisting of a massive glowing pyramid surrounded by a blinding array of lasers and neon lights - a template used since by many musicians from all genres.Ģ013's Random Access Memories served as a love letter to the soul, funk and R&B albums of the '70s and '80s that the band grew up on, and saw ample collaboration with their longtime heroes, including disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder, singer-songwriter Paul Williams, Chic guitarist/songwriter Nile Rodgers, and several internationally renowned musicians and session players, like Nathan East and John "J.R." Robinson.Īlso notable are several contributions that are often overlooked by casual observers. 2001's Discovery expanded on this sound by combining soul and disco samples with slick production, and would later serve as the score for an anime film, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (directed by the legendary Leiji Matsumoto, a childhood hero of the band).Ģ005's Human After All was a minimalistic, industrial-influenced album early attempts to film music videos led to the content being expanded into a feature-length art film, Daft Punk's Electroma, which eschewed use of the album's music to explore its Central Theme of the duality of man and machine. 1997's Homework (and its live album counterpart Alive 1997) was a showcase of various flavors of house (French, Chicago, acid) that, alongside music videos from Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry, served as many people's introduction to house music and electronica in general.
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