Leiji Matsumoto & Daft Punk Music Videos
Oct. 27th, 2001 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterThanks to a posting on Slashdot, I stumbled upon some rather interesting (and rather good) music videos. They're done by animé demigod Leiji Matsumoto, to the first four tracks off of Daft Punk's album Discovery, and tell a story (or at least the beginnings of one) spread across the four of the videos--of a rock band that finds itself "remixed" in a way it could never have expected.
I like the videos quite a lot...they're done in that late 70s to early 80s style Matsumoto exemplified in his "Captain Harlock" and "Starblazers" ("Yamato") series, and I'm a bit of a sucker for short films that manage to tell a story without any dialogue whatsoever. I sure hope they finish up the album so we get to find out what happened next. :)
I went ahead and purchased the album, because it was in my K-Mart and I liked the sound of the first four tracks. The rest of the album isn't as good, and it's not the sort of music I usually buy (it's sort of a heavily processed synth-pop dance thing) but it's still decent. The thing that interests me about it, though, is that each album comes with its own credit-card-like "Daft Card," whose unique serial number allows access to a "Daft Club" website where you can download dance mix tracks. The interesting thing is that this is a method of "fighting" MP3 trading (like Napster, Gnutella, etc.) not by trying to outlaw it, but by adding value to the CD so that more people want to buy it. I think I like that method.
I like the videos quite a lot...they're done in that late 70s to early 80s style Matsumoto exemplified in his "Captain Harlock" and "Starblazers" ("Yamato") series, and I'm a bit of a sucker for short films that manage to tell a story without any dialogue whatsoever. I sure hope they finish up the album so we get to find out what happened next. :)
I went ahead and purchased the album, because it was in my K-Mart and I liked the sound of the first four tracks. The rest of the album isn't as good, and it's not the sort of music I usually buy (it's sort of a heavily processed synth-pop dance thing) but it's still decent. The thing that interests me about it, though, is that each album comes with its own credit-card-like "Daft Card," whose unique serial number allows access to a "Daft Club" website where you can download dance mix tracks. The interesting thing is that this is a method of "fighting" MP3 trading (like Napster, Gnutella, etc.) not by trying to outlaw it, but by adding value to the CD so that more people want to buy it. I think I like that method.
