The soundtrack is also featured as on-board ride audio for TRON: Lightcycle Power Run at Shanghai Disneyland, and will likely be prominent in TRON: Lightcycle / Run when it debuts at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in the future, well over a decade after the original film on which it is based was released.
#TRON LEGACY SOUNDTRACK CLUB MOVIE#
An album of remixes by popular DJs was released in 2011, TRON: Legacy R3configur3d, near when the film was released on Blu-Ray and DVD.ĭespite the duo providing the entire soundtrack for the film, the single “Derezzed” is most commonly heard and associated with the film, even appearing in the park for shows like “Disney Movie Magic” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, which featured a TRON: Legacy segment seven years after the film was released.
#TRON LEGACY SOUNDTRACK CLUB FULL#
The sole single from the film, “Derezzed” (music video above) was released by Walt Disney Records ahead of the film, while the full album reportedly sold 71,000 copies in its first week in the United States, eventually peaking at #6 on the Billboard 200. One half of the duo, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo told NME, “We knew from the start that there was no way that we were going to do this film score with two synthesizers and a drum machine.” Kosinki even included the musicians in the final film, appearing as the DJs at Castor/Zuse’s (Michael Sheen) End Of Line club, where the single “Derezzed” is prominently featured.
The score is different from previous works by the duo, putting more of an emphasis on the orchestral elements than leaving everything solely with a synthesizer.
Kosinski also told MTV.com that the duo were big fans of the original TRON, and that their initial meeting “was almost like they were interviewing me to make sure that I was going to hold up to the TRON legacy.” It wasn’t until 2008 that the pair was finally done touring and were able to take part in the film’s production, where they worked alongside composer Joseph Trapanese and music supervisor Jason Bentley. That doesn’t mean that the film wasn’t a hit with many fans, as it was, but one of the things that is universally loved and celebrated about TRON: Legacy is its amazing soundtrack, composed by Daft Punk.įirst approached in 2007 by the film’s producers, Daft Punk was picked the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski, because “rather than going with a traditional film composer, I wanted to try something fresh and different.” Kosinski was also interested because of their work on side projects like their film, Electroma. The film was met with mixed reviews upon its debut, mostly praising the beautiful visuals and production design, but sharply criticizing the characters and story. Sam, his father, and a mysterious program named Quorra (Olivia Wilde) all must now escape whilst stopping his father’s creation, Clu, from leaving the digital realm and invading the real world. At his dad’s old arcade, where the message came from, Sam finds himself in his father’s hidden office booting up his dad’s computer system, inadvertently beaming him into “The Grid,” where his father has been trapped for decades.
The film follows the adult son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), Sam (Garrett Hedlund), who responds to a cryptic message from his long-lost father that was sent to Kevin’s old friend, Allen Bradley. TRON: Legacy, the long-awaited sequel to 1982’s TRON, was released after much fanfare and hype (especially from the Comic-Con crowd) in 2010. Taking inspiration from the field’s legends such as John Carpenter, Vangelis and Wendy Carlos himself, they manage to charge their arrangements with gestures and metaphors, making the illuminated, monochrome scenery of the film come to life - so convincingly that it was the film that was cut out to the music in the end, highlighting the astonishing results Daft Punk have achieved with this work.With today’s news of the split of French electronic musical duo, Daft Punk, I thought it would be fun to take a look at what is likely their biggest contribution to Disney fans, the music of TRON: Legacy. Continuing on from where Wendy Carlos left off in '82, the duo do an absolute sterling job of fitting a soundtrack to the CGI-glossy, retro-futuristic sequel to the 1982 classic.Īlthough the French duo would already seem well suited to the sci-fi realm with their superhuman synthesizer sound, they largely expanded their musical set up for the commission, seamlessly fusing their trademark electronic aesthetic with a 85-piece orchestra. Daft Punk plug themselves into the console after being commissioned to tackle one of the most coveted jobs in the business - scoring the latest in the saga, TRON: Legacy.
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