Has Daft Punk revolutionised the soundtrack? It’s difficult to know how to approach Daft Punk’s soundtrack to Tron: Legacy.
Do we cast it as the duo’s first album of new material in five years (in other words, start getting very excited)? Or is it, on the other hand, a bold attempt to reimagine motion picture soundtracks? I'm afraid the answer is no and no. Beautiful and enjoyable as the soundtrack is, do not expect anything deeply exceptional from this one. It's rather a shame. Daft Punk - Derezzed. Dazed: Daft Punk Interview. If you look closely at the back of a circuit board, that tightly packed grid of lines and soldering points looks a lot like a top-down view of a futuristic city.
At least, it must have seemed that way to director Steven Lisberger in the late 1970s, around the time he moved his small animation studio to Los Angeles. Inspired by his experience of the first video game Pong, Lisberger had a vision of the future – a utopian virtual world that existed inside computer space, populated by avatars of programs and the people that created them, and enabled by a new form of animation that swapped paintbrushes for pixels. He called it Tron. Tron Legacy Soundtrack.