Daft Punk, 'Tron Legacy Soundtrack' (Virgin)
There are some pieces of casting so perfect that if you were to believe in destiny, you would say that somebody’s life had been inexorably leading up to that moment and that moment alone. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Barbara Windsor...
Daft Punk: 'Alive 2007'
Daft Punk’s ‘Alive 1997’, remains one of the best live albums ever – and that includes those made by ‘real’ bands with guitars and drums and stuff. A juddering 45-minute multiple eargasm, it documented Daft Punk exploding through the...
Daft Punk: Rock Ness, Inverness, Scotland,...
Let’s get this straight – Daft Punk are a big fucking deal. If you didn’t know it before, you’d know it pretty much as soon as you caught sight of the two massive queues snaking across the gorgeous Rock Ness festival site to get into the...
Daft Punk : Human After All
For a band who promoted 2001’s ‘Discovery’ LP dressed as C3P0’s bolder twin brothers, returning with a record entitled ‘Human After All’ is a shift in intent that suggests the chrome-plated kneepads are going to be filed away for a...
Daft Punk : Harder Better Faster Stronger
A very cool single indeed this, only tainted slightly by the fact that by being involved with Gap, essentially the McDonalds of clothes, Daft Punk have revealed their true colours not as shiny robot creatures, but as big dull squares. Still,...
Daft Punk : Alive 1997
Before Daft Punk became Hollywood Manga robots cruising the intergalactic disco highway, they released, in 1997, an amazing debut album called 'Homework'. The sum of all their teenage musical influences, it revitalised house, stretched techno...
Daft Punk : Digital Love
Endorphins are stupid. The happy chemicals in the brain have no ideology, they respond to the dumbest triggers possible. It has, however, long been thought that in order to become a well-adjusted human being, it is not socially responsible to pig...
Single Of The Week - DAFT PUNK : Aerodynamic
A lone bell chimes. Like Godzilla, an electro-disco riff bursts from beneath the earth's crust. Beats kick like mules at the World Kicking Championships. A neoclassical, widdly-widdly geetar solo - that sounds suspiciously like Nigel Kennedy...
Daft Punk : Discovery
Four years after 'Homework' redefined dance music, turned handbag house into High Art and landed every disco chancer in Paris a record deal, can Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo still sound fresh in a post-Punk popscape of their...
