![]() ![]() I also put on Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack, and the orchestral and electronic elements really shone through. All their 70s records are just incredibly produced with very clean sound and no noise. One artist in particular that I’m hearing with new ears is Queen. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.’ Uncolored, powerful sound. I remember saying to Bradley, ‘This is perfect. I would have imagined spending twice what we did for this result. “At the demo, I was blown away by the sound, but I was also impressed with the price. To say that Yanacek has been pleased with the system would be an understatement. He was convinced, and Quartet was able to source the Genelec components and install the system at his home. That sent me down a road of research on the internet, and I had a pretty good idea of what I needed.” He contacted Bradley Sutton at AV integration firm Quartet, LLC, based out of Seattle, who was able to set up a Genelec demo for him. He notes, “One specific part of this quest of mine to build the ideal listening environment is to be able to hear music the way that the artists and producers hear it when they’re in the studio, so it made sense to me to seek out the kind of gear that the elite studios use. And as a music aficionado, his tastes run the gamut: classic artists of the 60s and 70s all the way to today’s electronic pop. Well-produced music played on a clean, accurate system – I can really get inside the music, and there is nothing like it.” Recently, his lifelong goal reached an inflection point with the installation of Genelec 8361A ‘The Ones’ active loudspeakers paired with W371A Smart Active Monitoring Woofer systems and a 7380A subwoofer in a dedicated listening room in his Seattle home.Īs a musician himself, Yanacek plays French horn and bass guitar and conducts a church choir. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure I qualify as an audiophile, but I listen to music very carefully, and accurate reproduction is something that makes a lot of difference to me. Whether I was delivering newspapers or doing odd jobs, the money I gathered went to acquiring whatever gear I could. “To find the cleanest, most accurate audio I could, within my means. “Since I was twelve or thirteen, it’s been a constant quest,” notes Yanacek. Without a doubt, it's a game-changer for Daft Punk.NATICK, MA, JanuSeattle-based tech industry professional David Yanacek is passionate about many things, and music and quality audio might be at the very top of that list. These tracks come as welcome relief from the tension Daft Punk ratchets up on almost every other piece, particularly "Rectifier" and "C.L.U." Encompassing the past, present, and future of sci-fi scores, Tron: Legacy feels like it grew and mutated from its origins the same way the film's world did. It's not until the score's second half that the duo's more typical sound emerges on "Derezzed"'s filter-disco and on "End of the Line," where witty 8-bit sounds evoke '80s video games. However, for most of Tron: Legacy, they're concerned with pushing boundaries. Daft Punk get in a few clever nods to Wendy Carlos' Tron score, from "The Grid"'s blobby analog synth tones to "Adagio for Tron"'s mournful sense of lost wonder. Elsewhere, "Recognizer"'s pulsing horns and synths and "The Son of Flynn"'s arpeggios and strings are so tightly knit that they finish each others' phrases. "The Game Has Changed" may be the most dramatic example: It starts with a wistful wisp of melody that sounds like a ghost in the machine, then swells of strings and brass and buzzsaw electronics submerge but never quite overtake it. Working with the London Orchestra, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo fuse electronic and orchestral motifs seamlessly and strikingly. Tron: Legacy's legitimacy as a score may surprise listeners unaware of Bangalter's fine work on 2003's Irreversible while that score actually hews closer to Daft Punk's sound, it showed his potential for crafting music beyond the duo's usual scope. However, Tron: Legacy takes a much darker, more serious approach than the original film and Daft Punk follows suit, delivering soaring and ominous pieces that sound more like modern classical music than any laser tag-meets-roller disco fantasies fans may have had. When it was announced that the duo would score the sequel to one of sci-fi's most visionary movies, it seemed like the perfect fit: Their sleek, neon-tipped, playful aesthetic springs from their love of late-'70s and early-'80s pop culture artifacts like Tron. "The Game Has Changed" is the name of one of the tracks on Daft Punk's score to Tron: Legacy, and it also fits Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo's music for the film. ![]()
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