It wasn’t until 2008 that the pair was finally done touring and were able to take part in the film’s production, where they worked alongside composer Joseph Trapanese and music supervisor Jason Bentley. That doesn’t mean that the film wasn’t a hit with many fans, as it was, but one of the things that is universally loved and celebrated about TRON: Legacy is its amazing soundtrack, composed by Daft Punk.įirst approached in 2007 by the film’s producers, Daft Punk was picked the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski, because “rather than going with a traditional film composer, I wanted to try something fresh and different.” Kosinski was also interested because of their work on side projects like their film, Electroma. The film was met with mixed reviews upon its debut, mostly praising the beautiful visuals and production design, but sharply criticizing the characters and story. Sam, his father, and a mysterious program named Quorra (Olivia Wilde) all must now escape whilst stopping his father’s creation, Clu, from leaving the digital realm and invading the real world. At his dad’s old arcade, where the message came from, Sam finds himself in his father’s hidden office booting up his dad’s computer system, inadvertently beaming him into “The Grid,” where his father has been trapped for decades. The film follows the adult son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), Sam (Garrett Hedlund), who responds to a cryptic message from his long-lost father that was sent to Kevin’s old friend, Allen Bradley. TRON: Legacy, the long-awaited sequel to 1982’s TRON, was released after much fanfare and hype (especially from the Comic-Con crowd) in 2010. Solar Sailer (Remixed by Pretty Lights)Ġ4.With today’s news of the split of French electronic musical duo, Daft Punk, I thought it would be fun to take a look at what is likely their biggest contribution to Disney fans, the music of TRON: Legacy. Arena (Remixed by The Japanese Popstars)Ġ3. The Son of Flynn (Remixed by Ki:Theory)Ġ1. Adagio for TRON (Remixed by Teddybears)Ġ1. The Grid (Remixed by The Crystal Method)Ġ4. Fall (Remixed by M83 VS Big Black Delta)Ġ3. TRON Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Tracklist:Ġ2. You can pre-order all three vinyl pressings here. However, the duo keeps on giving to their fanbase and still remain topical ever since.įind the tracklists of all three ‘TRON’ reissues down below. The rumors however fell apart once Daft Punk announced their split in February 2021. The robots were rumored to work on Tron’s sequel currently in development – ‘TRON:Ares’. It featured the French duo’s reworkings of songs from artists like Avicii, M83, Boys Noize, The Glitch Mob and Kaskade, and reached No.1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Remix album ‘TRON: Legacy Reconfigured’ was released a year after the sequel. For the 11-year anniversary of the movie release, in late 2021, the album reclaimed that position when the robots rereleased the soundtrack vinyl with exclusive additional tracks such as ‘Sea of Simulation’ and ‘Reflections’. Recorded in London’s AIR Studios with an 85-piece orchestra, the soundtrack took 2 years to create and reached Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums chart upon release. ‘TRON:Legacy’ was the first and only movie score from Daft Punk. She is also known to be one of the first public figures to come out as a transgender woman. Wendy Carlos, who was previously known for her accomplishments on ‘Clockwork Orange’ and ‘The Shining’, worked on TRON’s soundtrack using Moog synthesizer – the world’s first commercial synthesizer which she helped create, a GDS digital synthesizer and London Philharmonic Orchestra. This includes the original TRON’s score composed by legendary Wendy Carlos, 2010’s ‘TRON:Legacy’ score composed by Daft Punk and the 2011 remix album ‘TRON:Legacy Reconfigured’, which included reworks of music from M83, Avicii, The Glitch Mob and many others. The vinyl pressings will be out on May 27th this year via UMC/Walt Disney Records, and are currently available for pre-order worldwide. To celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the original TRON movie, Disney announced new vinyl pressings of all the franchise’s soundtrack albums.
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