Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's new with you?
0:01.4	Let's see.
0:03.0	Oh, you're getting a taste for something different.
0:05.8	I tried them up a little.
0:07.4	Turns out, I like olives.
0:10.4	Relaxing.
0:11.8	Far, far away from the city.
0:13.7	Oh, I needed this.
0:15.7	You needed this.
0:17.6	Oh, and getting together with some old friends
0:20.2	to find your new favorite band.
0:22.3	That show was amazing.
0:24.3	When you are the most you, that's when you're with Amax.
0:27.6	American Express.
0:28.8	Don't live life without it.
0:41.1	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:42.2	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:43.6	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:46.5	Nate, it's time for our second installment
0:48.5	in our Listening to Daff Punk series.
0:50.6	Last week we explored the beginnings of Daff Punk,
0:52.8	the French electronic music duo, famous for hiding
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