Daft Punk Trip

I should be doing my taxes... but ... well it's taxes and they are boring as hell.

One of the best soundtracks I have heard in years and years and years is going to come as a surprise to some people.  It's the soundtrack to the film TRON (the 2010 version).  Now before you all start laughing, yes, this was an incredibly shit film but most of that was largley due to the fact this was originally a futuristic film from 1982 complete with dodgy neon effects.  The newer version didn't stray too far from this, and just "modernised" some of the effects, with little success. Unfortunately it still felt like a film from the 80s.  However, having seen both versions- the soundtrack to the latter was in essence one of the most perfect soundtracks I have ever heard.  I simply can't imagine anyone better than Daft Punk doing it, their soundscapes fitting the whole ethos and atmosphere almost better than the rest of the film did.  It's incredible.  So incredible, that I bought it.  I very rarely buy soundtracks- but I knew this one would be one I could listen to in the dark and completely lose myself in.  Eager to hear how it sounded on my awesome Cowon-Shure set up, I listened to it in bed one night a few weeks ago and had the most freakin' awesome dream to match the soundtrack.

I just lay there in the dark, eyes closed and let my head paint pictures to the music and here's what it came up with:

A girl is being chased over rooftops but we never really see who is chasing her.  It's night and the main colours are a muted navy blue with moonlight highlighting patches and shapes against the darker shadows. 

Eventually she breaks into an old, derelict building and in a large room with broken windows is a man sitting, tied to a chair in a big metal cage.  He has bandages over his eyes with large, dark spots which look like dried blood.

She reaches through the cage to touch him but can't quite reach, but seems to signal to him that she will be back.  He slides something to her across the floor- it's a small microchip-type key. She begins to run again.  Faster this time.

Bright white lights now follow her, and her chase becomes frantic, but eventually she gets away, climbing over fencing which seems to mark a boundary to the inner city area.  She keeps running, not stopping, over fields to a small cottage-type building hidden away in a small valley.  It's daytime, but colours are still muted and slightly blue-grey. Washed out.

This small building is almost empty and dark, except for one room with a computerised lock.  She uses the key to open this room, and as the door opens, the room floods the house with colour.  Colours are now bright, vivid.  The girl walks in to the room and stands in the middle of the floor, looking around at the walls.  They are covered with brightly coloured paintings and portraits.  Some are hanging on the walls, others stood on the floor propped up against the wall once the artist ran out of hanging space. 

It becomes clear, that the man in the cage is an artist.  His eyes have been removed by his captors, reducing the surroundings to a colourless, dark environment.  The girl holds the key, looks at it, and vows to return him to his paintings.

And then the music stopped.