10 on the national album chart, scanning over 70,000 units according to Nielsen SoundScan it has sold more than 118,000 units to date. In its first week of release, the CD landed at No. In a startling departure from the kind of techno-disco-heavy metal mash-ups and bombastic dance music that propelled them into international superstardom, the Grammy-winning French electronica duo back-burnered what they do best and went on hiatus from a lucrative touring schedule for nearly two years to compose and produce the ‘Tron: Legacy’ soundtrack. Scoring aces such as Hans Zimmer (‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’) and John Williams (the ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Harry Potter’ franchises) have become global brands for creating similar emotionally pregnant soundscapes for film - the kind of music that isn’t shy about pushing viewers’ buttons or providing an emotional context for what’s on-screen.īut while ‘Adagio for Tron’ - for that matter, most of the tracks on the soundtrack - shows a mastery of orchestral music and fluency for deploying every symphonic resource from timpani to Wagner tuben, the musicians responsible for the score are better known for a sound that can be characterized as anything but classical. It’s an elegiac movement recorded by a symphony orchestra that features desolate violins swelling around a barely there synthesizer pulse. Played in the denouement to a gripping shootout between digital warriors on rocket-propelled hang-gliders, the musical passage ‘Adagio for Tron’ arrives about two-thirds through the $170-million sci-fi thriller ‘Tron: Legacy’ (which hit multiplexes Dec. Times staff writer Chris Lee, who landed a rare interview with Daft Punk, writes about the French electronic music duo who scored ‘Tron: Legacy.’ Today, Pop & Hiss presents Part 1 of Lee’s story, which delves into how the duo came to be involved with the project.
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