There's a couple other good songs on here, like Cerrone's intense Italo hit "Supernature" and Karen Young's likably campy Dr. And the ending air-raid siren, for that matter. All "Robot Rock" did was take out the fun parts: the close-harmony vocals, the mid-chorus guttural exhortations, and the intricacy of the rhythm guitar. The Daft Punk track crumbles within a 10-foot radius of the original, a towering edifice of electro-funk that sounds like an army of rampaging Rick James clones copping AC/DC moves to a fist-pumping synth/guitar riff. If Discovered: A Collection of Daft Funk Samples proves anything, it isn't that Daft Punk are surreptitious thieves- it's that they're transformative reinterpreters, and in more than a few cases, flat-out miracle workers.ĭiscovered pulls a neat trick by starting with the one song Daft Punk obviously cribbed from without actually managing to improve upon- "Release the Beast", the 1980 song from Philly group Breakwater that was notoriously looped for Human After All's "Robot Rock".
A widely-viewed YouTube video montage entitled "Where Daft Punk Got Their Samples From" starts with the caption "I Daft Punk- but." "But" what? They got some of their best hooks from wonky jazz-funk and Barry Manilow? Uh oh, time to retract that "unconditional" status. It's no secret that a lot of Daft Punk's best work is sample-heavy, though the revelation of their songs' source material is too often met with a bit of man-behind-the-curtain disappointment by the group's more easily disillusioned fans.
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