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Daft Punk | Discovery

CD, Virgin

Tekst: Omar Muñoz-Cremers

Publicatiedatum: 14 maart 2001

Discovery already has become subject of much heated discussion, as should be the case with any long-awaited album, no discussion would signal 'just another Homework', while these days it's just so much interesting to toy around with what is expected of your music. Any doubts are quickly expelled once the album's opening salvo 'One More Time' lets loose in its full glory. The single sets the tone of much uncomplicated fun that is to follow in the next hour. More than a retro album full of cool kitsch sounds this is an album about the joy of music, the simple joy of dancing (dancing with your feet to be sure, but also dancing with memories, dancing through history). There is also something brave in the way Daft Punk have used the music they obviously love: the audacious use of Van Halen tap-on guitar on 'Aerodynamic', the sampling of Barry Manilow on 'Superheroes' or the dazzling way 'Digital Love' shifts from The Buggles to a Supertramp piano-break to Frampton's voicetronics, leave Daft Punk open up to cynical criticism of just toying with irony. The cute sounds are a bit deceptive, in the way they tend to coat the more complex processes that unfold after repeated listenings: the astounding production tricks, the dazzling cut & paste disco builds that now reach utter perfection. But Discovery may also be one of the most personal dance records to be ever released, certainly on this scale. Sometimes I suspect that you'll only 'get' all the treasures of Discovery if you went on holiday to France as a kid between 1978 and 1982. Playing Nintendo hand-helds on the back seat of the car, your dad's E.L.O. tape finishes and the radio suddenly plays a mysterious disco track that you immediately love although you have no idea what disco is. There are only Japanese cartoons on television that you'll never see at home and Saint-Etienne is the coolest football team ever. After which you open your eyes and find yourself back on the dance floor in 2001, surrounded by smiling faces, all happy to be alive just at this exact moment.
Let them please stay daft forever.

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