Overlord Post #2 – Daft Punk Music Video Series
As an avid house music and electronic music fan, Daft Punk is a staple of my library, and I’m sure many of you have enjoyed daft punk in your free time or on a dance floor at some point. Famous for songs like “Around the World,” “Digital Love,” and “Harder Better Faster Stronger”, Daft Punk is one of the most iconic names in the electronic music world.
What many people don’t know about daft punk is that instead of normal music videos for their second studio Album, “Discovery,” they produced a series of videos that forms one movie!! It runs just over an hour and I’ve attached the link here. There are no words except for the music itself and the story is an awesome animated sci-fi adventure where the members of an alien band are kidnapped and brainwashed into making music for an evil capitalist and stripped of all joy! Seeing that this has happened, a powerful alien friend has to come rescue the band members and break them free. The story is exceptional, the music suits the visuals perfectly, and there are several sci-fi elements to both the music and the video.
Do watch this if you get the chance! It is one of my favorite musical/visual creations ever 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
Awesome! And I didn’t know about the film, which I totally have to watch. The storyline reminds me of the rock opera by Rush, “2112” and Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” storyline. Interesting. I also love that Daft Punk sampled the voice of Giorgio Mororder on the track “Giorgio” (Random Access Memory). Mororder is the producer of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” which I included in the Spotify list. The song is renowned for being the first pop hit to use synthesizers (the Moog, specifically) extensively. Absolutely key to disco’s history, or rather, when it started to sound “like the future.”