Discovery Album Release

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Lore & Background

Before Discovery's release, Daft Punk adopted robot costumes. They developed a concept for music videos that merged science fiction with the entertainment industry. Inspired by their childhood love for Japanese anime, they collaborated with Leiji Matsumoto to produce Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, an anime film featuring Discovery as the soundtrack.

In Their Own Story

The duo spent two years recording at Daft House in Paris. They moved away from typical house drum machines like the Roland TR-808 and TR-909, using an Oberheim DMX, LinnDrum, and Sequential Circuits Drumtraks instead. They utilized samplers such as the Akai MPC and E-mu SP-1200, along with Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos. Vocoders like the Roland SVC-350 and Auto-Tune were used on vocals in unconventional ways to make instruments sound unlike themselves. The album features contributions from Romanthony, Todd Edwards, and DJ Sneak.

Reader's Guide

The album contains six singles: "One More Time" (released in 2000), followed by "Aerodynamic", "Digital Love", "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", "Something About Us", and "Face to Face". "One More Time" samples Eddie Johns' "More Spell on You", though Johns had not been located as of 2021. The project was widely praised for innovating in house music and is credited with influencing electronic and pop production over subsequent decades.

Did You Know?

• Daft Punk used Auto-Tune on vocals 'in a way it wasn't designed to work' to make guitars sound like synthesizers and vice versa.
• The album features 'fake samples' created by the duo that listeners assumed were from real disco or funk records.
• DJ Sneak wrote the lyrics to 'Digital Love' and assisted in its production.
• Production for the anime film Interstella 5555 began in October 2000 and ended in April 2003.
• As of 2021, Eddie Johns was owed an estimated six-to-seven-figure sum based on streams for his sample in 'One More Time'.