Daft Punk

Daft Punk got their music video inspiration for their album 'Discovery' from many from famous 70's French children's cartoons. In particular the song 'One More Time' they are inspired by the cartoon Albator 84. Daft Punk state that this album is hugely inspired by their childhood. 'Its less of a tribute of a tribute to the music from 1975 to 1985 as an era, and more about focusing on the time when we were zero to ten years old.' Their music video is rather cheesy, in the sense that it is very child-like, featuring blue aliens who originally would be targeted at younger children, whereas this is targeted at young adults from 16-24 year olds, or more. The album is to bring back and highlighting memories of being young again. 

Daft Punk- One More Time

Albator 84

In the opening sequence of each video from Daft Punk's and Albator 84, both videos begin with rockets in space, featuring planets and galaxies. However Daft Punk's music video is also heavily inspired by Japanese anime cartoons... 

These characters were also taken/inspired by Leiji Matsumoto's characters from Albater 84...

In terms of the music side of Daft Punk, the song 'One More Time', is very similar to the intro of 'Ulysses 31'. In this video blue aliens in fact feature, similar to the anime ones in Daft Punk's music video. 

Ulysses 31

Daft Punk produce music with a 'French House' sound, similar to artists such as Bob Sinclar and Cassius. 

Here is a video showing how Daft Punk took a piece of well known music, and used pastiche and homage to create richly textured music. This is not an easy process, it is extremely time consuming and has been created with intelligence. 

In 2001 Daft Punk released 'Discovery', the album relied heavily on sampling and saw a move towards disco inspired house music. The album was to do with their childhood and memories. 'It's less of a tribute to the music from 1975-1985.'