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Discovery | 
| Artist: Daft Punk
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $11.94
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 2736
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 724384960605
EAN: 0724384960629
ASIN: B000059MEK
Release Date: March 13, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | One More Time | | • | Aerodynamic | | • | Digital Love | | • | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | | • | Crescendolls | | • | Night Vision | | • | Superheroes | | • | High Life | | • | Something About Us | | • | Voyager | | • | Veridis Quo | | • | Short Circuit | | • | Face To Face | | • | Too Long |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
The French twosome behind Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, get away with an awful lot. They go around impersonating aliens and robots in their interviews, they put records out only once every three years, and they make music that evokes a million other artists--while not really sounding like any of them. The keyboard noodlings of Jean-Michel Jarre are in there somewhere, along with the otherworldly imagery and giant hooks of '70s rock icons like Boston or even Electric Light Orchestra. There are dashes of 1999-era Prince and oodles of new wave and disco cheese, from Harold Faltermeyer and Gary Numan to the Bee Gees, all set off with efficient house beats. So how have they managed to position themselves as electronic music's next great crossover artists? On Discovery, the follow-up to the 1998 worldwide smash Homework, the answer is obvious: they have no shame, and they know how to make us dance. Starting off with the irresistibly hummable "One More Time," the record blows through a head-spinning array of styles and samples, creating a pop-culture stew of funky loops and dance-floor anthems. "Aerodynamic" eschews breakbeats for an Yngwie Malmsteen-ish guitar interlude that somehow ends up meshing in a crazy blend of stomping bass lines and hyped-up harmonics. "Digital Love" starts off silly and gets sillier, but the monosyllabic lyrics lull the senses just right, allowing the song's summery groove to grab hold with authority. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is a resounding standout amidst the retro/Vocoder deluge that transpired after Cher's Believe turned the kitchy disco device into a worldwide pop music trend, spinning a clever groove around an ever-escalating string of computerized seduction. Everywhere on the record, gigantic beats are dropped with pinpoint precision, giving songs a momentum that transforms repetitive melodies into sudden revelations. The record's only misstep, the aptly named "Short Circuit" utilizes a keyboard riff that is nails-on-a-chalkboard awful, but it can't keep this from being one of the best records of 2001. --Matthew Cooke
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| Customer Reviews:
 LoriS August 20, 2010
Justin harvey
OMG!! this album is awesome.. Makes me dance .. good for the treadmill .. awesome!
Amazing July 2, 2010
WarheartOfBodom
Classic! I'd call this their best album to date. Happy, mellow, yet pumps you up. Brilliancy.
daft punk discovery June 20, 2010
Rodrigo Avila (los angeles county)
this is a must have album if you are in to electronica/dance music. face to face is my favorite track, such a good beat and the vocals are awesome.
ReDiscovery April 24, 2010
SmokyTGAB
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've heard of electronica, you've heard of Daft Punk. Even as a sheltered American kid raised on a steady diet of top 40 hip-hop and classic rock, I knew Daft Punk. However, I had never had the actual pleasure of sitting down and listening to a full Daft Punk album. They're one of those bands that you never actually have to own an album from due to somebody near you always having a song or two available on their playlist, and speakers powerful enough that you can hear the song down the hall. Such is the price of fame.
Hailing from France, the duo's Discovery brings 4 decades right around to the beginning of French electronica. Laiden with heavy sampling and slight alterations to the poppy loops, the influence of early tape music and Musique Concrete is audible and bare for all to here. The unexpectedly joyous and flourishing "One More Time" starts off the album with a punch that truly makes the listener wonder how there could be any energy left to actually continue the album. The truly funky beginning of "Aerodynamic" somehow manages to make the listener rise up off the sweat soaked floor and continue dancing. If the funk wasn't enough, the heavily synthesized but still fairly technical guitar solo, typically fairly unheard of in electronica, surprises and excites. Digital Love makes a sudden, unexpected venture into the realm of synth pop with a very mainstream electronica vocal line. Honestly not the biggest fan of the track, but it seemed to go well with audiences as a single. Thus, we end up with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Even if Kanye hadn't sampled it, this song would be a mega-hit. The odd mix of jazz and syncopated rhythms with a driving robot vocal brings a practically inhuman drive to dance into my body every time I hear it. It may indeed by the single greatest work-out track known to man. Just when you think that you literally are not able to pull yourself off of the floor due to sheer exhaustion, Crescendolls beckons. The strange track features a bubbly, liquid keyboard part and expertly placed vocal encouragement that has probably killed more than raver. However, given the very strong beginning to the album, it may have actually been in the interest of public health and vitality that the rest of the album is much less memorable. Face to Face is a notable example with a surprisingly mature view of relationships and human interaction, indeed a mysteriously grown-up sentiment in the midst of such an otherwise youthful album (proclaimed as such by Daft Punk themselves). Too Long brings back the vocals of Digital Love for a medley and general parade with the song providing the longest track of the album clocking in at a whopping 10 minutes, an even stranger finale to an album marked with songs not much longer than 6 minutes, if that.
What can be said about Daft Punk that hasn't already been said? They represent every beautiful thing that the french electronica scene has given to the rest of the world, from the perfectly clean, deliciously placed looped samples to the exquisitely childish joy of the whole album. In short, you must have it.
Masterpiece. April 20, 2010
musi2350
What better showcase of technosonic music than Daft Punk's album, Discovery. Each song brings a different collection of beats and textures that automatically get you off your seat and never leave you bored. Although I do admit the lyrics are barely impressive, the intricacy and attention to the electronic music and its overall composition makes up for it. Overall, the songs in this album include a wide array of nicely-done electronic sounds and addictive technosonic beats that keep the listener wanting more.
As the beginning of Crescendolls plays, all I can think about is the Jewish rapper SoCalled playing on his sampler in front of my music class. Percussive beats are recorded, samples are taken, and buttons are pushed to come up with a brilliant concoction of techno sounds. I can't help but think that a similar method was used in composing this song. One layer is added to another until a good composition results, while the sample "HEY" and "everybody y'all" adds an extra variant to the piece. The repetition, although it should be obnoxious at thought, is nothing but catchy.
Aerodynamic is another song that does the album well. The only thing that I don't particularly like and that confuses me is the church bells gonging, which makes me anticipate monks chanting. Besides that, there are so many elements in the song that deserve recognition. Once the beat picks up, the panning from left to right with the synthesizer automatically and easily lets me forgive the awkward beginning. More surprising is the bridge in the middle, when the modern song full of synths and computer music takes it back to the earlier days of technosonic music by playing an instrument whose sound very much resembles that of the Hammond organ. Interesting sounds to put together, but somehow they work well.
The last song I'd like to touch on in this album is One More Time. This is probably one of the more popularly played songs, loved by both young and old for good reason. From the upbeat tempo to the feel-good lyrics, this song is definitely one for the ages. Listening closely, the FM synthesizer is clearly put to good use in this track. Starting with a fast tempo, then slowing it down towards the middle only brings the energy to a higher level as the beats pick up again. From a historical perspective, this ambient feel halfway through the song is very reminiscent of John Chowning's Stria, which was one of the first songs to be made using the FM synthesizer. Even in the beginning, it seems like a phase vocoder was used to remove some of the frequencies in the sound. Variations like these that Daft Punk brilliantly places in their pieces help bring their compositions to higher levels.
As an album altogether, Discovery is the ultimate dance party playlist. Each song has its own catchy words and the technosonic sounds implemented by the synthesizers provides the perfect ensemble of sounds to get you up and moving. Even the vocoding on the voices gives the album another element to applause. Overall, I admire Daft Punk for their brilliant understanding of beat composition and electronic sound variations.
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