Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

Daft Punk’s first album laid the groundwork for their robot personas, with four to the floor beats, programmed drum machines, and sequenced synthesizers. On their second album Discovery, Daft Punk fully lean into the artificial – singing through robotic vocoders that correspond with their now-iconic robot helmets.
But in there is a paradox, explored on episode 2 of Listening to Daft Punk: the more machine the robots become, the more human the music sounds.

Songs Discussed

Daft Punk - One More Time

Daft Punk - Teachers

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

Sister Sledge - Il Macquillage Lady

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

Daft Punk - Revolution 909

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Kraftwerk - The Robots

Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove

Herbie Hancock - I Thought It Was You

Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce

Stevie Wonder - 1-2-3 Sesame Street

Cher - Believe

Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why

Barry Manilow - Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed

Daft Punk - Superheroes

Edwin Birdsong - ...

Daft Punk’s first album laid the groundwork for their robot personas, with four to the floor beats, programmed drum machines, and sequenced synthesizers. On their second album Discovery, Daft Punk fully lean into the artificial – singing through robotic vocoders that correspond with their now-iconic robot helmets.

But in there is a paradox, explored on episode 2 of Listening to Daft Punk: the more machine the robots become, the more human the music sounds.

Songs Discussed

• Daft Punk - One More Time
• Daft Punk - Teachers
• Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
• Sister Sledge - Il Macquillage Lady
• AC/DC - Thunderstruck
• Laurie Anderson - O Superman
• Daft Punk - Revolution 909
• Kraftwerk - Autobahn
• Kraftwerk - The Robots
• Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
• Herbie Hancock - I Thought It Was You
• Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce
• Stevie Wonder - 1-2-3 Sesame Street
• Cher - Believe
• Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
• Barry Manilow - Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed
• Daft Punk - Superheroes
• Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby
• Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
• Daft Punk - Face to Face
• Daft Punk - Something About Us
• Daft Punk - Voyager
• Daft Punk - Veridis Quo
• Daft Punk - Superheroes
• Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams - LYTD (Vocoder Tests) [feat. Pharrell Williams]
• Daft Punk - Digital Love
• Daft Punk - Crescendolls
• Eddie Johns - More Spell On You
• George Duke -I Love You More
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