Discovery

Discovery cover

Discovery – second Daft Punk's studio album. It was recorded in years 1998-2000 and released March 13^th 2001 by Virgin Records. Album is produced by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Total running time of the album is 61:01.

Interstella 5555

Japanese edition of Discovery, with Interstella 5555 main protagonists on cover

In 2001, Daft Punk collaborated with japanese manga/anime director Leiji Matsumoto. Effect of their work was Interstella 5555, full-length anime feature produced by Matsumoto and written by Daft Punk and Cédric Hervet. It's the first animated house musical in the history.

The movie contains no dialogue, only some minimalistic sound effects. All story is narrated by songs from Discovery.

Awards and nominations

• 2001 Grammy Award for best dance performance for One More Time (nomination)
• 2001 Grammy Award for best pop instrumental performance for Short Circuit (nomination)

Limited Edition

Cover of Discovery Limited Edition

Limited edition of Discovery on Enhanced CD was released in 2001, only in Japan, for Interstella 5555 additional promotion. Limited edition contains booklet with new and unreleased Daft Punk pictures from their japanese session.

Tracklist

• One More Time (5:20)
• Aerodynamic (3:34)
• Digital Love (4:54)
• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (3:41)
• Crescendolls (3:31)
• Nightvision (1:44)
• Superheroes (3:57)
• High Life (3:21)
• Something about us (Love theme from Interstella 5555) (3:48)
• Voyager (3:47)
• Veridis Quo (5:50)
• Short Circuit (3:26)
• Face to Face (4:00)
• Too Long (10:00)

Singles

• One More Time (2000)
• Aerodynamic/Aerodynamite (2001)
• Digital love (2001)
• Harder, better, faster, stronger (2001)
• Something about us (2002)

Daft Punk albums

Homework (1997) • Discovery (2001) • Human After All (2005) • Random Access Memories (2013) Musique Vol. 1 (1993-2005) (2006) Daft Club (2003) • Human After All: Remixes (2006) Tron: Legacy Reconfigured (2011) • Homework: Remixes (2022) Alive 1997 (2001) • Alive 2007 (2007) Tron: Legacy (2010)