I'm not sure if these are the same as the website as I have yet to look at it, but the following website http://blogs.1077theend.com/internbryce/2010/07/22/new-daft-punk-zomg/ has what sounds to be full tracks from the score. Each one has a beginning and end so they are more than just clips. No sound FX.
I'm not sure if these are the same as the website as I have yet to look at it, but the following website http://blogs.1077theend.com/internbryce/2010/07/22/new-daft-punk-zomg/ has what sounds to be full tracks from the score. Each one has a beginning and end so they are more than just clips. No sound FX.
Thanks! Again, really great stuff. I think I'm gonna have to buy this.
I just listened to those clips. I certainly have no objection to them, but they hardly strike me as especially groundbreaking. This is unfair, I know. But I guess when I read that somebody from a non-scoring background was doing this (I knew Daft Punk only by reputation), I was hoping it would shake up our expectations a little more. Sort of in the way Carlos's original did. That score was so distinctive, and in 1982, you heard it coming out of every video arcade in the US. I think it was actually more famous from the arcade game than it was from the movie!
But I know, I'm not being fair. The proof will come later, when the film opens. I may yet be impressed.
I just listened to those clips. I certainly have no objection to them, but they hardly strike me as especially groundbreaking. This is unfair, I know. But I guess when I read that somebody from a non-scoring background was doing this (I knew Daft Punk only by reputation), I was hoping it would shake up our expectations a little more. Sort of in the way Carlos's original did. That score was so distinctive, and in 1982, you heard it coming out of every video arcade in the US. I think it was actually more famous from the arcade game than it was from the movie!
But I know, I'm not being fair. The proof will come later, when the film opens. I may yet be impressed.
SchiffyM, your openmindedness is refreshing in a time when people condemn scores before a note has even been written.
I like it. It sounds like trailer music to me....in fact if they got together with Two Steps From Hell, that would be a killer collaberation. But I like trailer music and I like Tron Legacy so far. Kind of cool, we get to hear such lengthy tracks 5 months before the movie comes out. That has to be a first.
I'm with Schiffy. Think this could be good but doesn't compare to the uniqueness of Carlos's original masterpiece. I really wish she could've been brought back and don't understand why she wasn't. I wonder if the conversation ever even included her. It would've been at least nice if Daft Punk had at least given a nod to her thematic material here an there. Maybe they did in other parts of the score; who knows?
When I started this thread almost five months ago, I had no idea who Daft Punk was. Since then, I've grown to like their work much more than I did when I first heard it. "Da Funk" is probably still my favorite piece of theirs, but thanks to my daughter, I've got "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Technologic" in my iPod these days as well. I began to think that perhaps they were an inspired choice to score Tron: Legacy.
Then I heard these clips.
What the fuck? It all sounds like Zimmer. I mean, just like Zimmer. And dour. Dour, goomy, dark and brooding. Where is the Daft Punk I know? Their pop stuff is so much fun and vital and... well, alive!
Maybe that's what the film called for, I don't know, but then why hire Daft Punk? I don't get it. I'll reserve final judgment until I see the film—and I will see this film but for now, I'm a bit disappointed. Again.
It sounds gloomy and brooding (yes...), and 'digital'. Ethereal and yet somehow simultaneously cold. As at home in the depths of space as in the alien realm of gigantic electron pathways.
The music matches the visuals thus far, to my mind.
Course, part of my defense of what I have heard is predicated on a full appreciation for Batman Begins. If you don`t like that score, you probably won`t like whats out there thus far for TRON Legacy.
When I started this thread almost five months ago, I had no idea who Daft Punk was. Since then, I've grown to like their work much more than I did when I first heard it. "Da Funk" is probably still my favorite piece of theirs, but thanks to my daughter, I've got "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Technologic" in my iPod these days as well. I began to think that perhaps they were an inspired choice to score Tron: Legacy.
Then I heard these clips.
What the fuck? It all sounds like Zimmer. I mean, just like Zimmer. And dour. Dour, goomy, dark and brooding. Where is the Daft Punk I know? Their pop stuff is so much fun and vital and... well, alive!
Maybe that's what the film called for, I don't know, but then why hire Daft Punk? I don't get it. I'll reserve final judgment until I see the film—and I will see this film but for now, I'm a bit disappointed. Again.
I agree, the 6 tracks are a little underwhelming. I like the track we heard from comic con last year, that was more in tune with Daft Punk. I'm hoping there's more of this type of music in the movie.
I think it sounds pretty good although it's a bit minimal. We need something fresh but without a single nod to the original score would be like The Empire Strikes Back not having the original Star Wars themes. There should be a theme variation in there 'somewhere'. From what I read, as fans of Tron, Daft Punk took the scoring VERY seriously so I can't imagine them not giving Carlos at least a few nods here and there. After all, is it not the nostalgic reemergence of themes in the sequel from the original that give you the rush of nostalgia? I recall the hair on my arms standing up when I saw Rambo and I heard Goldsmith's classic theme open and close the film. Hopefully they do not underestimate the importance of the original film's score which is a pretty big trademark of the original.
Wait...that link says the entire soundtrack has leaked online? WTH? I have thoe 6 clips that combines roughly 12-15 min or so...thats seriosuly all they wrote for Tron Legacy?
I recall the hair on my arms standing up when I saw Rambo and I heard Goldsmith's classic theme open and close the film
Yes, but wasn't everything in between just Remote Control style action (not my opinion, just other opinions I have heard and read)?
In my opinion, given that Carlos was a classically trained musician, comfortable composing for an orchestra, a landmark synth pioneer and, to the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I am wrong) I have never read that Daft Punk are classically trained like Carlos, so why should they be attempting to emulate her seemingly much more developed musical style?
I am not putting down Daft Punk, either. Vince DiCola I don't think was as experienced and adept at orchestral film score as Bill Conti, yet he composed the brilliant Rocky IV, which successfully honoured the DNA of the Rocky music. It also had great tracks like Up The Mountain, which in my opinion tipped the hat to the classic Gonna Fly Now theme, while still being very much it's own kind of music. I think that had the DiCola cover of the Rocky theme been played all over the movie, or even just a DiCola arrangement of the Rocky theme for orchestra, it would not have faired as well with audiences.
I think this new Daft Punk music sounds great, and I encourage them to keep doing their own thing and not sell themselves short trying to be Wendy Carlos. Judging from the clips, I think they have realised that too (and I wasn't a fan of the announcement that they were going to score the film). My only concern is the Zimmer comparisons with some of the clips, but I think that's best saved for another rant about today's film score status quo.
That page was updated and according to them now, these clips are fake. I hope they are fake, they sound like some source music from disco club. Previous clips that appeared (12 minutes) are much more appropriate for movie (although they may not be used in movie too). Sorry guys.
