Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled
Daft Punk's Discovery is a record that looked into the future and liked what it saw; an album that predicted the electronic music explosion, YouTube and the end of privacy, while dragging soft rock back into vogue. Discovery was not only one of the best albums of the 2000s, it was one of the most prophetic, the kind of record that makes you wonder: how did they know?

You can draw lines from Discovery to Glass Swords, Kanye West, EDM, Autotune, iTunes, Beyonce, Guilty Pleasures, social media and more. Discovery's footprints can be found all over the modern world but it also looked back to Daft Punk's childhood, to Van Halen records, Japanese cartoons and even Johann Sebastian Bach.

Discovery was a record that confounded many fans when it was released in 2001, thanks to its blatant pop hooks and unlikely sonic bricolage. It was a record that was - and still is - widely misunderstood; Discovery's impact has only become clear with the passing of time, as Daft Punk have been proved right time and time again.

This book is a homage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century, as Discovery reaches its 20th anniversary.
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Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled
Daft Punk's Discovery is a record that looked into the future and liked what it saw; an album that predicted the electronic music explosion, YouTube and the end of privacy, while dragging soft rock back into vogue. Discovery was not only one of the best albums of the 2000s, it was one of the most prophetic, the kind of record that makes you wonder: how did they know?

You can draw lines from Discovery to Glass Swords, Kanye West, EDM, Autotune, iTunes, Beyonce, Guilty Pleasures, social media and more. Discovery's footprints can be found all over the modern world but it also looked back to Daft Punk's childhood, to Van Halen records, Japanese cartoons and even Johann Sebastian Bach.

Discovery was a record that confounded many fans when it was released in 2001, thanks to its blatant pop hooks and unlikely sonic bricolage. It was a record that was - and still is - widely misunderstood; Discovery's impact has only become clear with the passing of time, as Daft Punk have been proved right time and time again.

This book is a homage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century, as Discovery reaches its 20th anniversary.
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Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled

Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled

by Ben Cardew
Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled

Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled

by Ben Cardew

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Overview

Daft Punk's Discovery is a record that looked into the future and liked what it saw; an album that predicted the electronic music explosion, YouTube and the end of privacy, while dragging soft rock back into vogue. Discovery was not only one of the best albums of the 2000s, it was one of the most prophetic, the kind of record that makes you wonder: how did they know?

You can draw lines from Discovery to Glass Swords, Kanye West, EDM, Autotune, iTunes, Beyonce, Guilty Pleasures, social media and more. Discovery's footprints can be found all over the modern world but it also looked back to Daft Punk's childhood, to Van Halen records, Japanese cartoons and even Johann Sebastian Bach.

Discovery was a record that confounded many fans when it was released in 2001, thanks to its blatant pop hooks and unlikely sonic bricolage. It was a record that was - and still is - widely misunderstood; Discovery's impact has only become clear with the passing of time, as Daft Punk have been proved right time and time again.

This book is a homage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century, as Discovery reaches its 20th anniversary.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913231118
Publisher: Velocity Press
Publication date: 10/01/2021
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 313,929
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ben Cardew is a music writer with some 25 years of experience behind him. He wrote his first review in 1991, setting him on a not entirely lucrative path that would lead, eventually, to freelancing for The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Quietus, NME, Wired, Vice and many other outlets.
He has interviewed everyone from Wiley to Quincy Jones and appeared on a bewildering range of TV and radio shows talking about the music industry.
Ben has lived in Barcelona since 2011 and works for Radio Primavera Sound, the online radio station of the legendary Spanish festival, where he is head of programming.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ouverture 1

1 Something About Us

How Daft Punk arrived at Discovery 9

2 Digital Love

Discovery, nostalgia and the reinvention of the soft rock sound 41

3 Too Long

Discovery and the art of imperfection 95

4 Veridis Quo

Digital maximalism and the impact of Discovery 105

5 Short Circuit

Discovery, Daft Club and the demise of the music industry 131

6 Nightvision

How Discovery birthed the visual album 145

7 Face To Face

Daft Punk's transformation into the robots 161

8 Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Daft Punk, hip hop and how Discovery laid the foundations for EDM 179

9 Superheroes

Discovery's Americana (or why the French love to hate Daft Punk) 189

10 Crescendolls

Picking Discovery apart 197

11 High Life

Human After All and the anti-Discovery 205

12 Aerodynamic

Discovery and the success of Random Access Memories 215

13 One More Time

Discovery and the known unknown 231

Appendix: Recommended Listening 237

Sources 253

Special Thanks 273

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