Daft Punk : Electroma
August 8, 2007 at 12:13 pm
After Bubbachups amazing introduction to Jackson C. Frank’s music I decided to research and find out whatever I could about this immesely talented and underrated artist. This investigation led me to the last place on earth I would expect to find any information on him : A Daft Punk forum. Not only a Daft Punk forum but also a forum discussing a movie they premiered last year in Cannes, called Electroma. It seems everyone else but me was aware of the existence of this movie and I wonder how it went under my radar after all this months when I share the same obsession towards Daft Punk’s general aesthetics in their musical videos and discographic output as the rest of my generation.
Well, from what I could gather the DVD is going to be released on September and the movie is basically a 75 min length psychedelic musical about two robots on their quest to become humans. The disappointing thing about it is that there’s no Daft Punk songs on the film and instead Bangalter and Homem-Christo decided to splurt the film with their own musical influences. Since there’s no official soundtrack for the film and the songs featured are definitely worth the listen, I’m taking some free time I got in between classes to post:
Curtis Mayfield - Billy Jack
Todd Rundgreen - international feel
Gregorio Alleri - miserere
Brian Eno - in dark trees
Linda Perhacs - if you were my man
Jackson C. Frank - dialogue
Sebastien Tellier - universe
Frederic Chopin - #4 in e minor from Op. 28
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Daft Punk - Alive
(from Homework / 1996)
There you go. Hope you enjoy. And if you, kind reader, are amongst the few people who’ve seen screenings of this movie, please be kind to let me know what you thought about it.
So “Dialogue” is also featured in their movie? Wow, that’s great, haha! Unexpected indeed. The whole selection is great in fact, that Linda Perhacs song goes straight through my heart. Much more pop oriented than the rest of her material though.
“Two robots on their quest to become humans.” Seems like a good mirror of many people today.
i’ve seen it twice and it’s: awesome. a great piece of art and a deeply touching metaphor for what we call life.
and actually it does not matter that the movie does not contain any daft punk songs. everybody who has seen “interstella 5555″ should expect something totally different.
Electromatisiert…
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Beim Motel de Moka wird derzeit der gesamte Soundtrack von Electroma zu meiner ungebremsten Daft-Punk-Freude zum Download feilgeboten. Allein die fantastischen Songs von Todd Rundgren und Jackson C. Frank sind den Klick in die Nachbarscha…
Thanks for posting these songs, I just saw the film last night and lo and behold here is the soundtrack!
It’s well worth a watch, as bizarre as anything David Lynch has done but also very absorbing and thought-provoking.
Thanks for the tracks! The movie has a good soundtrack.
I’ve seen the movie, and I don’t really think it’s all that. It’s too pretentious, and it doesn’t really cut it as an art movie. I think Interstella 5555 was much better, but perhaps they somewhere along the way felt to mature for such.
I saw the movie a couple of weeks back, seems like a totally self indulgent meditation on how cool Daft Punk think they are. The first 10 minutes work and almost build up an atmosphere, but it never delivers on the promise of the mood created. The “pussy” intersection halfway through the long period of tracking shots and faux cinematographic atmospherics almost feels like DP having a bit of a laugh at the fact you’ve sat through that much of it …
Saying all that, It hasn’t changed my view of daft punk at all, still love them, it’ll take more than a misjudged promo to put me off..
nice write up, plus thanks for finding all the songs - btw the initial sound/music (the long drone like intro), before the first track - I couldn’t find it anywhere - any clue who made it?
Well according to Vice Records the whole soundtrack is comprised of 9 Songs:
“International Feel” - Todd Rundgren
“In Dark Trees” - Brian Eno
“Billy Jack” - Curtis Mayfield
“Miserere” - A Sei Voci Ensemble (composed by Gergorio Allegri)
“Universe” - Sebastien Tellier & Matheiu Tonetti
“String Quartet E Flat Major Op.64 No.6″ - Kodaly Quartet (composed by Franz Joseph Haydn)
“If You Were My Man” - Linda Perhacs
“No.4 in E Minor [24 Preludes, Op.28] - Fryderyk Chopin
“Dialogue” - Jackson C. Frank
The only missing piece on the post is the Haydn string quartet but I doubt that’s the drone piece you’re looking for, I haven’t seen the movie yet so I think I’m of no real use at the moment, sorry. Will let you know if I find anything. Although if it’s not credited on the movie it could be an original score fill-up.
Here’s the video for the closing “burning man” sequence with Jackson C. Frank’s tune playing on the background. Beautiful segment:
Also here’s the whole movie shortened to 170 frames and 3:16 minutes instead of 70 in case you suffer from ADD:
The ‘drone’ piece is the start of ‘International Feel’
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i think electroma is so great because i have been hand in hand with daft punk all through my life and everything they have created has been like a projection of things i have felt over time. it all makes so much sense to me. i am not saying it is the greatest film ever or anything but it just fits so well into my life. there are much more physically talented musicians and artists out there but i dont really care about that. in terms of context daft punk are the only ones i can say make sense to a person of my generation. hopefully that will help some people understand why their stuff means so much and is so important!
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!! DAFT PUNK is THE BEST!!!!!!!!