Discovery (Daft Punk album)

Discovery is the second studio album by Daft Punk. Daft Punk is a French electronic music group. Virgin Records released the album on 12 March 2001. Discovery is different from the band's first album, Homework (1997). It is inspired by different types of music, such as disco and R&B. Daft Punk recorded the album between 1998 and 2000. The album uses many samples. Some of the samples are from older music. Other samples were made by Daft Punk.

Other music makers worked on Discovery, such as Romanthony, DJ Sneak, and Todd Edwards. Daft Punk made many music videos for the album. The group made a movie with Leiji Matsumoto named Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. Interstella 5555 is an anime movie. It uses all of the music from Discovery.

Discovery was successful. Many music critics liked the album. It was on the Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart. Many songs from the album were sampled by other music makers. Kanye West's song "Stronger" uses a sample from "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Daft Punk played "Stronger" at the 2008 Grammy Awards with West. Many music magazines have said Discovery is one of the best electronic music albums ever made.

 Background 
Daft Punk released their first album in 1997. It was named Homework.  After it was released, the group played music at many concerts. The members of the group, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, made their own record labels. They also made music videos for many of the songs on Homework. Bangalter said that many other electronic music makers were inspired by the music on Homework. Because of this, Daft Punk wanted to make different music.

 Recording 
Daft Punk recorded Discovery in Bangalter's house in Paris, France.Discovery (liner notes). Daft Punk. Virgin Records, a division of Universal Music Group. 2001. They started working in 1998, and ended in 2000. Bangalter and Homem-Christo made music together, but they also made music by themselves. This was similar to how they made Homework. The group used drum machines and samplers to help make the album. They also used Auto-Tune for the singing on the album. Nilesh Patel mastered Discovery. He was the person who mastered Homework.Homework (liner notes). Daft Punk. Virgin Records, a division of Universal Music Group. 42609. 1997.

"One More Time" was one of the first songs that was made for the album. It was made in 1998. It was released as a single in 2000. Later, Daft Punk made the song "Too Long". The group said they "didn't want to do 14 more house tracks", so used many different types of music on the album. DJ Sneak wrote the words for the song "Digital Love". Romanthony and Todd Edwards also helped with the album. Daft Punk wanted to work with them on Homework, but the group was not popular at the time.

Track listing

 References 

Category:2001 albums
Category:Virgin Records albums
Category:Concept albums