Discovery was a critical and commercial success, peaking high across several charts internationally on release. They also launched Daft Club, a website which featured exclusive tracks and other bonus material. Inspired by their childhood love for Japanese anime, the duo collaborated with Leiji Matsumoto to produce Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, an anime film with the entirety of Discovery as the soundtrack.īefore Discovery 's release, Daft Punk adopted robot costumes. For the music videos, Daft Punk developed a concept involving the merging of science fiction with the entertainment industry. The electronic musicians Romanthony, Todd Edwards, and DJ Sneak collaborated on some tracks. It features extensive sampling some samples are from older records, while others were recorded by Daft Punk playing instruments. The Daft Punk member Thomas Bangalter described Discovery as an exploration of song structures, musical forms and childhood nostalgia, compared to the "raw" electronic music of Homework.ĭiscovery was recorded at Bangalter's home in Paris between 19. It marked a shift from the Chicago house of their first album, Homework (1997), to a house style more heavily inspired by disco, post-disco, garage house, and R&B.
Discovery is the second studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 12 March 2001 by Virgin Records.
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