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French house DJ and frequent Daft Punk collaborator Alan Braxe was kicked out of San Francisco’s DNA Lounge after allegedly peeing onstage. Braxe, who is best known for the 1998 smash “The Music Sounds Better With You,” which he co-wrote with Thomas Bangalter as Stardust, is accused of relieving himself on in the middle of his set.
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Before there was the pyramid, the art films and TRON:Legacy, Daft Punk broke the electronic music mold with Interstella 5555, and anime film created in conjunction with the duo’s smash second album, Discovery. The film animates the whole of the album, which included Daft Punk classics “One More Time,” “Face To Face” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” while telling the story of an alien band who are kidnapped by an evil music industry executive and forced to perform as human likenesses. The film was created with legendary anime auteur Leiji Matsumoto, who introduced an entire generation of Western youths, including Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, to the Japanese sci-fi style with his show Space Battleship Yamato (ie- Star Blazers). …MORE
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Disney has let loose another opening salvo of Daft Punk’s soundtrack to the film TRON. Honestly, these warning shots are getting a little old, but at 90 seconds long, “The Game Has Changed” is the most complete bit we’ve heard so far, with all the little electroni flousihes we expect from these robots (dig the wacky IDM-inspired breakdown). And there’s the cool Daft Punk in TRON-space image to make the blog posts more appealing as well.
Go to the TRON Legacy Facebook page to hear the music.
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With all the hype beseigning Daft Punk’s soundtrack to TRON Legacy, far less has been said about the other film currently out with a Daft Punk connection. Thomas Bangalter (the silver robot) collaborated with director Gaspár Noe’s on the soundtrack for his latest film, Enter the Void—a surrealist film about tripping on drugs in Tokyo.
The Quietus reports in an intervew with Noe:
Bangalter was too busy working on The Tron Legacy to compose all of Enter the Void’s music, instead he gave Noé a palette of drones and ambient sounds to be mixed in, contrapuntally, with a wide range of experimental music, and electronic music from the 60s and 70s, in order to create “a maelstrom of sounds.”
Bangalter previously collaborated with Noe on the soundtrack for …
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We’ve seen lots of folks dressing up as Daft Punk in the past few years. But this one is really the masterpiece of homemade robot helmets. As for the real Thomas and Guy-Man? They’re putting the finishing touches on the score for TRON:Legacy according to the film’s director at Comic-Con.
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