Daft Punk and the Tron sequel

Already confirmed so use this thread to track tidbits and info. Such as:

· Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski described his meeting with Daft Punk as being a “mysterious pancake breakfast in L.A.” And yes, they were wearing the helmets. Asked if they tour in support of the soundtrack, he said there would definitely be Daft Punk Tron-themed events on the horizon.

"And yes, they were wearing the helmets."

no wai

How did they eat pancakes through the helmets? And did they light up to read 'YUM'?

This thread title sounds like an entry in a series of bouncy French house detective novels.

Daft Punk and the Swedish Passport

no wai

Sounds like the director of the TRON remake might not be creative, witty, or good at coming up with plausible scenarios.

or the other way around

plausible scenarios are not good at coming up with directors of Tron remakes?

looking forward to this

Sounds plausible. Why should you bother going to meetings when you can just send some random dude wearing a helmet ? With an integrated webcam, nobody would notice your are actually still in bed.

Why should you bother going to meetings when you can just send some random dude wearing a helmet ?

I still think that wasn't them on tour.

there's prob a rotating cast of fake thomases and guy-manuels

Fake Tuomases? Hey!

Soon they'll start auctioning it off to the fanboys like an hour on the 4th Plinth.

"Hey, you, too, can put the helmets on, and be Daft Punk for an hour on tour!"

As posted on ILE, this appears to be some of the initial Daft Punk music in the background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrew4XtbjrU

Sounds a bit Blade Runner - I like.

AWESOME. Sounds like what they've always been meant to do: a double album of foreboding John Carpenter-esque instrumentals - a la their previous "Ouverture."

Sounds like Springsteen's "Tougher Than The Rest"

LOL! It does!

there are already several youtube channels that have spliced up the sample and compared it to the original Springsteen track.

You have no idea how happy I am to see someone else who loves "Ouverture."

It's also on that Justice "Fabric Rejected" mix.

this is awesome

Allegedly a song has leaked but basically nobody seems to know either way. Judge for yourself:

http://io9.com/5454752/your-first-listen-to-tron-legacys-punk-music

Kinda boring - I really want those chords to change more.

I could believe this not even being Daft Punk though.

Or I could maybe see it being just a piece of incidental music that doesn't last very long.

Remember the fakes that spread around before Human After All came out? They were good and convincing, but not real. Daft Punk does amazing things, but with a really small pallet. Easy to copy.

Here's a re-creation of the track playing in the light cycle reveal. Lots of people have tried, but this one seems the most accurate.

http://www.box.net/shared/lg5z4kl7d2

Compared to the lightcycle at comic-con track this is pretty dull and doesn't seem to be thematically similar either ie. that was heavy on the 80s John Carpenter style, whereas this is a bit meh. Reckon it's a fake.

Remember the fakes that spread around before Human After All came out? They were good and convincing, but not real. Daft Punk does amazing things, but with a really small pallet. Easy to copy.

And when the actual tracks leaked people thought they were fakes too...

haha!!! :-(

I was gonna say!

human after all at the very least sounded like something different and not just daft punk pastiche-y like the other leaks. I'mna vote 'not real'...

http://www.prefixmag.com/media/daft-punk/the-crash/36888/
This sounds like the real deal.

This new movie better be nothing but jeff daniels and bruce boxleitner walking around the desert with their faces melting off.

That track sounds much more like it. Once it gets going the tones and arpeggiated synths even seem to give a little nod to Wendy Carlos's score for Tron.

yeah diggin it, seems like they're making the right calls soundtrack-wise. difficult to avoid the obvious so don't suppose what they do will really surprise anyone tho?

"Once it gets going the tones and arpeggiated synths even seem to give a little nod to Wendy Carlos's score for Tron."

had exact same thought

This has to be them and if not it's pretty dope anyway.

this is great yes. it prob is them but if it isn't, whoever did it needs to be releasing more stuff.

Bump because something's happening this weekend and new music might be in the offing.

^^anyone attended one of those?

no daft punk but track is huge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhpD3TNN0_s

I don't understand what Pit Cell is.

ditto. pretty geeked about this.

http://wdmp-wdsmp.rd.llnw.net/wdsmp/TRON/42Ent/1Trlr/Grid_1tlr_1280x532_720p.mov

Here's the theatrical trailer. Apparently the music was specifically written for this footage, per the director:

Q: Did Daft Punk score the trailer?

Kosinski: Yes, that's a track they did just for the trailer. That's a custom track.

okay, this will be the thing that gets me in to see a 3-D movie finally.

The movie the movie-within-2046 should've been.

i do not give TWO SHITS about Tron but that trailer is awesome and the music doubly so.

More info here:

Q: Is Daft Punk going to be in the movie?

Kosinski: Yeah, Daft Punk is in the movie, their music is all over it.

Q: Was the leaked track last month actually a track from Daft Punk?

Kosinski: No. There are a lot of fake tracks floating around out there.

Q: How did you get Daft Punk involved the picture?

Kosinski: When I first started thinking about the picture, I heard randomly that -- I knew they were interested in "Tron," it's pretty obvious to anyone who has seen their show. But, I have a connection to them and we just decided to meet in LA for breakfast one morning and that was the first of about a dozen meetings over the first year where we just discussed kind of conceptually what we wanted the film to be, what we wanted the music to be, how we wanted to push the envelope like Wendy Carlos did in her work. And I think this is just a small taste of it, but the soundtrack is one of the things I'm most proud of for this movie.

Q: Is Jeff Bridges going to sing in the movie?

Lisberger: I'm sure he'd like to, but I'm not sure Daft Punk would go for that.

Amazon preorder link up for November 23

everyone = burned

It's pretty awesome, actually.

Dun dun dun It's all pound pound pound very Hans smash smash smash Zimmer LOUD ORCHESTRAL SWEEP dun dun dun.

http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb101129tron_legacy_soundtra

That's a really good piece, it got me incredibly excited for the movie and the full soundtrack. I have my tickets to the midnight showing here and I haven't been this excited for a mainstream movie since The Dark Knight I think. Even if it doesn't live up 100% I think it will be an awe-inspiring spectacle. Just the fact that so much money, talent, and hard work is going into a freaking Tron sequel is awesome.

yeah i am excited about it as an av spectacle. hope there isn't too much of a paper tiger michael bay-style plot. not necessary imo.

meh out of 10

it's kinda the bastard love child of the Koyaanisqatsi and Terminator 2 soundtracks
which i guess isn't bad? it's certainly limited. Stands up to three plays, not sure how much more juice is in this citrus tho

gah it's a soundtrack yet here we are complaining that it's a soundtrack, oh well

not complaining! just would like it to be a better soundtrack! with stronger songs! and themes that are a bit more complex than say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4in1QfN2g

Funny how you wait the whole album to get classic daft punk electro disco zap zap laser beats in the outro, only to remember that they aren't even particularly brilliant at those anymore.

xp I'm complaining

gah it's a soundtrack yet here we are complaining that it's a soundtrack, oh well

Don't you/Disney/Daft Punk know that when we said "yes, please!" to a Daft Punk-created Tron 2 soundtrack, it's because we were secretly asking for a 2hr, tons of CGI Daft punk music video (featuring Jeff Bridges)? Nobody wanted a "real movie" smh

Disney should have commissioned Daft Punk to re-make Captain EO and include new songs. Maybe even given the boys fifty million dollars cash and made them perform in Disneyland, at that attraction, until one or both died.

I'm feeling pretty meh on the soundtrack. It's fine for what it is, but if it was just some no name who composed i doubt many people would be talking about the music.

^

Don't you/Disney/Daft Punk know that when we said "yes, please!" to a Daft Punk-created Tron 2 soundtrack, it's because we were secretly asking for a 2hr, tons of CGI Daft punk music video (featuring Jeff Bridges)? Nobody wanted a "real movie" smh

― Cunga, Thursday, 2 December 2010 09:29 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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Now washing my brain with Alive 2007 tbh

big surprise
there are people more powerful than daft punk
and they live in hollywood

big surprise

enjoy your album, sheeple

No, really:

It’s difficult to know how to approach Daft Punk’s soundtrack to Tron: Legacy. Do we cast it as the duo’s first album of new material in five years (in other words, start getting very excited)? Or is it, on the other hand, a bold attempt to reimagine motion picture soundtracks?

I’m afraid the answer is no and no. Beautiful and enjoyable as the soundtrack is, do not expect anything deeply exceptional from this one. It’s rather a shame. This would be acceptable in most other bands or composers, but the fact is that Daft Punk have had an immense influence in both pushing electronic music forward and coaxing it gently towards the daylight of the mainstream that they are forever likely to be victims of over-expectation.

I really like the soundtrack a lot, but they'd better have released it as Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo & Thomas Bangalter, imho.

trying to write on this
"pretty worthless without the movie" is a couple of hundred words short

how about "pretty worthless"?

wait-- that's shorter! darn!

i genuinely thought when i first joined that you were teh lulz

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they should have gotten Alex Moulton to do it.

Hans Zimmer would've even probably been more adventurous than DP were here.

Hans should invade DP's turf and create some dance music, play an ambitious live show at Coachella 2011.

In a giant cube! A next level pyramid!

Autotune the Tron

they should have gotten Alex Moulton to do it.

― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 12:36 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

yup. the moment i heard this my eyes just sorta glazed over---it's pretty boring, imo

liking the end theme but the rest is, yes, quite pedestrian soundtrack material

T2 theme rulez smashes complexity into a million tiny metal shards.

Yeah except for maybe a grand total of around 6-7 minutes that features somre pretty obvious Daft Punk beats ("Derezzed", "End Titles"), this sounds just like every other mediocre instrumental score I've heard.

In a giant cube! A next level pyramid!

Crecy took his Cube to Coachella in '09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzil8S7tUeY

pow pow pow POW POW POW smash smash smash SMASH SMASH SMASH

Plastikman did his 2010 tour in a cylinder, iirc.
Only a matter of time before someone like Aphex Twin tours in a rhombic dodecahedron.
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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/575/immagine1lx.png

I'm listening to this.

Quite enjoying it so far - ON ITS MERITS BECAUSE IT IS A SOUNDTRACK. Also, electro strings.

I get the sense you need to hear it as part of the film, which, y'know, it's a soundtrack so

they should have gotten Alex Moulton to do it.

― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Tuesday, December 7, 2010 10:36 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so, so true.

once i saw it with the actual movie, i really enjoyed the music.

an alex moulton take would have been cool tho

"Reconfigured" out today; like the M83 remix.

i hate that this has sold like 2 billion copies

they should have gotten The Weeknd to do it

So, complete soundtrack now:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/daft-punks-rare-tron-legacy-tracks-are-now-available-f-1845941119

i will spin that for sure