Daft Punk - Musique, Vol. 1: 1993-2005

Advanced Japanese release of Daft Punk's anthology covers tracks from their debut album Homework up through Discovery and Human After All. Includes an exclusive bonus track. Virgin. 2006. Album Description

Warning: Play This Album Once & You'll Need A New Rug.

Daft Punk is a duo of Paris electronica geniuses, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, and their rave music is an innovative fusion of techno, house, acid house and electronica styles. In their live performances, the futuristic French duo are known to dress as robots. It is hard to resist the urge to dance to the infectious grooves of Daft Punk. (In fact, play this album once and you'll need a new rug.) This career retrospective includes tracks (mostly from the nineties) from their 1997 debut album Homework up through Human After All (2005). This compilation also includes a bonus track ("Digital Love"):

1. Musique 6:53
2. Da Funk 5:28
3. Around The World (Radio Edit) 3:59
4. Revolution 909 5:28
5. Alive 5:16
6. Rollin' & Scratchin' 7:28
7. One More Time (Short Radio Edit) 3:56
8. Harder Better Faster Stronger 3:45
9. Something About Us 3:51
10. Robot Rock 4:47
11. Technologic (Radio Edit) 2:46
12. Human After All 5:19
13. Mothership Reconnection (Feat Parliament/Funkadelic) (Daft Punk Remix) Scott Grooves 4:00
14. Ian Pooley ''Chord Memory'' (Daft Punk Remix) Ian Pooley 6:55
15. Digital Love 4:58

G, Merritt
April 25, 2008

If you already like their stuff, this is a good one to have...

But if you don't, this won't convert you. Once you get past the couple of "club" hits, the rest of the album is just more of the same. Daft Punk fans already know this, and like it, but newer fans will be wondering what's going on.
July 9, 2007

Almost perfect.

To me, Daft Punk represents the best in electronic/house music. For novices this is a great way to get into a band that I feel is often overlooked. Perhaps because electronic music nowadays isn't really being listened to that much. Back in the mid to late 90's electronic music acts such as Daft Punk, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx were flying high because the music was in style, today it's sort of an acquired taste. Given most of these bands material of late isn't up to par, including Daft Punk themselves. Before 'Human After All' came out I honestly didn't think these guys were capable of making a less than stellar album. I was proven wrong.

For all the backlash 'Human After All' gets it's not by any means terrible, but just simply not as good as Homework and Discovery. However, the sound of a dwindling fanbase must've been deafening to the record label. So the time was right to release this 'best of' compilation in order to reel in new fans since the "old" ones probably have gone off to greener pastures ( i.e. LCD Soundsystem). We get introduced to a lost classic from the earliest stage of the band, Musique, a b-side to the first single 'Da Funk' and a pleasant surprise to those who haven't heard it. The next batch of songs are very familiar to fans and somewhat to fairweather fans, now my only gripe is something I noticed others have had a similar complaint about, and that is "why isn't Digital Love and Aerodynamic included?". Now those two tracks were singles and to me the fact that those are not there takes away one star from this rating. Since you want to give novices a chance to get the "best of" of a band, you must put in the "best tracks", makes sense right? I would've taken out Human After All and Something About Us, basically because the quality of the previous tracks outweigh these. A nice addition is the inclusion of three remixes from the Daft Club release, good choices too. Overall, you have pretty much the meat and potatoes of an excellent group that deserves better recognition and this proves why. October 31, 2006

Daft funk.

Some may ask why, but I say bring on a collection like this. Why not? This is primo music. Is it techno or electronica, who cares, just dance and enjoy. My biggest complaints are, why six tracks from "Homework", and only three from "Discovery"? Also, some of these songs like "Rollin' & Scratchin'" and "Robot Rock" are SO repetitive (I know that's the point), they get old by the three minute mark. Yet, other tracks like "Around The World" and "One More Time" are perfection, hence the classics they are. One other disappointment....where the hell is "Digital Love"? That song should be here before many of these. Still, these are all good at the least, and it's a good sampling of their three albums. Toss on a few remixes to choice tracks like "Da Funk" and "Human After All", and you've got a collection even a robot could love. There's also a deluxe edition of this with videos, but hey, that's what Youtube is for. October 18, 2006

The best of the best

If you're looking for a comprehensive greatest hits collection from daft punk then this is it! Yeah greatest hits can be all about cashing in but for casual daft punk fans this is ideal! You get all their "best" songs in one shot plus some little additional remixes. It is true that perhaps the track the music sounds better with you should've been added but hey! no greatest hits is perfect. June 29, 2006

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