Daft Punk - Tron : Legacy Soundtrack

A tale with dusty beginnings. A decommisioned arcade no less, full of powered down machines with nothing better to do but do battle with nobody.

The music inspires us to brush off the dust from the machine titled Koyannasqatsi, and give The Lord Of The Rings game a quick clean while we're at it. Before too long we're faced with the original Tron game.

This is THE Tron game.

Enter the son of Kevin Flynn, a software engineer who somehow got into a game via some kind of fancy laser beam.

Somehow he follows in his Fathers footsteps and...KABLAM we are IN.

From this point onwards the Kings of plagiarism take over, and I mean take over big time.

Games called Scarface, hints of a game called Blade Runner and another called something to do with tumbling through space near an obelisk, indeed multitides of other game themes, memes and soft John Carpenter machines are absorbed into the machine that is Daft Punk only to be re-produced with honor and kudos as per usual.

That's what Daft Punk do. They take things in and put them out and nobody complains because it is always in context. Always with full honor. Very rarely, if ever, misrepresented. To say there's a lot going on in here is the understatement of the decade. Pretty much every sound is from somewhere else or other but it's the way of the future.

And it's not only contemporaries like Speedy J who take a bow, listen closely and you can even hear the London Philharmonic Orchestra no less puff and grunt their way through this modern day odyssey. Daft Punk even mess around with their sound heavens forbid.

This is micro-detailing of our kind of music at its very best.

Bravo!

Rating: 990,999 (out of a possible 1,000,000)

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