The album which heavily features The Bee Gees will be honoured at this year’s Grammy Awards on February 12.Ī host of stars will join original Bee Gees member Barry Gibb for a pre-recorded concert titled Stayin’ Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The 13th track on the album Derezzed was released as a single and remixed by Avicii and The Glitch Mob. The score features an 85-piece orchestra and took over two years to complete. The film’s producers had previously approached the pair regarding a project in 2007 but they were touring their Alive show at the time and declined. The Tron: Legacy soundtrack is the first step by French music duo Daft Punk into the world of film scores. Stand out tracks include Hanna’s Theme the vocal version of which features American singer-songwriter Stephanie Dosen. The entire soundtrack for this adventure thriller starring Saoirse Ronan was composed by The Chemical Brothers. Other highlights on the album include Karla DeVito’s We Are Not Alone and Wang Chung’s Fire in the Twilight. Simple Minds released the track the day after the official soundtrack dropped on February 20, 1985. It’s hard to think about this cult classic without automatically humming Don’t You Forget About Me and reminiscing about that final scene. The majority of the remaining tracks were composed by ex-Red Hot Chilli Pepper drummer Cliff Martinez who most recently put his name to last year’s The Neon Demon. The 19-song album opens with the film’s title sequence track Nightcall by Kavinsky which was produced Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, one half of Daft Punk.
TRON LEGACY SOUNDTRACK CLUB MOVIE
The soundtrack for this 2011 Ryan Gosling movie was a commercial success, climbing to number four in the sales chart. Manchester group Happy Mondays make an appearance with Loose Fit and a club mix of Hallelujah alongside tracks from The Clash, 808 State and the opening track from the Sex Pistols. Joy Division and New Order feature heavily with both bands recording new tracks for the film. Naturally this 2002 comedy-drama about Factory Records and Manchester’s music scene was going to make the list. With the sequel to Trainspotting being released this weekend we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite movie soundtracks. Without a doubt, it's a game-changer for Daft Punk.Hannah O’Connell outlines the soundtracks that made these films so iconic, from Daft Punk to Hans Zimmer. These tracks come as welcome relief from the tension Daft Punk ratchets up on almost every other piece, particularly "Rectifier" and "C.L.U." Encompassing the past, present, and future of sci-fi scores, Tron: Legacy feels like it grew and mutated from its origins the same way the film's world did. It's not until the score's second half that the duo's more typical sound emerges on "Derezzed"'s filter-disco and on "End of the Line," where witty 8-bit sounds evoke '80s video games. However, for most of Tron: Legacy, they're concerned with pushing boundaries.
Daft Punk get in a few clever nods to Wendy Carlos' Tron score, from "The Grid"'s blobby analog synth tones to "Adagio for Tron"'s mournful sense of lost wonder. Elsewhere, "Recognizer"'s pulsing horns and synths and "The Son of Flynn"'s arpeggios and strings are so tightly knit that they finish each others' phrases. "The Game Has Changed" may be the most dramatic example: It starts with a wistful wisp of melody that sounds like a ghost in the machine, then swells of strings and brass and buzzsaw electronics submerge but never quite overtake it. Working with the London Orchestra, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo fuse electronic and orchestral motifs seamlessly and strikingly. Tron: Legacy's legitimacy as a score may surprise listeners unaware of Bangalter's fine work on 2003's Irreversible while that score actually hews closer to Daft Punk's sound, it showed his potential for crafting music beyond the duo's usual scope. However, Tron: Legacy takes a much darker, more serious approach than the original film and Daft Punk follows suit, delivering soaring and ominous pieces that sound more like modern classical music than any laser tag-meets-roller disco fantasies fans may have had. When it was announced that the duo would score the sequel to one of sci-fi's most visionary movies, it seemed like the perfect fit: Their sleek, neon-tipped, playful aesthetic springs from their love of late-'70s and early-'80s pop culture artifacts like Tron. "The Game Has Changed" is the name of one of the tracks on Daft Punk's score to Tron: Legacy, and it also fits Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo's music for the film.
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