WALL-E vs Daft Punk

The electronic musical stylings of robot duo Daft Punk are a perfect pairing for the robot adventure movie WALL-E. I believe watching WALL-E with an alternative audio track of your Daft Punk library on shuffle or your favorite Daft Punk album would yield rewarding results. But here is a suggested playlist that I think works pretty well. Songs are listed with full title followed by the respective album in brackets. To cue the sync: just hit PLAY MOVIE on the main DVD menu and simultaneously hit PLAY on your mp3 device or computer. Note: several songs are from the remix album Daft Club.

WALL-E vs Daft Punk "Robot Rock" playlist:

1. Phoenix (Basement Jaxx remix) [Daft Club]
2. Da Funk [Homework]
3. Harder Better Faster Stronger (Jess & Crabe remix) [Daft Club]
4. One More Time [Discovery]
5. One More Time (Romanthony's Unplugged remix) [Daft Club]
6. Prime Time of Your Life/Brainwasher [Alive! 2007]
7.Ouverture [Daft Club]
8. Harder Better Faster Stronger (The Neptunes remix) [Daft Club]
9. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger [Discovery]
10. Indo Silver Club [Homework]
11. Rock 'n Roll [Homework]
12. Short Circuit [Discovery]
13. Around the World/Harder Better Faster Stronger [Alive! 2007]
14. Digital Love [Discovery]
15. Oh Yeah [Homework]
16. Television Rules the Nation/Crescendolls [Alive! 2007]
17. Aerodynamic (Daft Punk remix) [Daft Club]
18. Crescendolls [Discovery]

And be sure to check out the animated epic Interstella 5555.

Discovery One: 2001: A Space Odyssey as Alternative Audio mothership

2001 is the movie that started it all, and in my opinion it remains the perfect film for alternative audio experimentation. With extended sequences absent of dialogue, non-stop symbolic overload, sudden shifts in scenery, and hominids jumping and keeping the beat with makeshift drumsticks, 2001 (and especially the "Dawn of Man" segment) is an ideal candidate for soundtrack substitution. In fact, the film's ability to match almost any musical accompaniment influenced director Stanley Kubrick to score the movie with preexisting classical music: he was using songs like the Blue Danube as a temp track in the editing room, and decided that the tunes worked better than the original score composed by Alex North. The rest is cinema history.

Rather than proposing a playlist to sync with the movie, this is the method I recommend: set your iPod or iTunes to shuffle mode. Then start the movie (it does not matter what DVD version you use), and remember to mute the film's soundtrack. When the MGM lion appears, push PLAY on your iPod or computer (I would tell you to wait for the lion's third roar, but unlike Wizard of OZ the MGM lion does not roar at the beginning of 2001.). Now settle in and enjoy your trip through the musical monolith!

Note: according to legend Kubrick wanted Pink Floyd to score all or part of 2001. Intrepid Floyd heads have synced the entire "Jupiter: And Beyond the Infinite" sequence to the song "Echoes" and you can watch it here. And of course the authors acknowledge The Dark Side of the Rainbow as the sync that started it all.

Also: skipping tracks that come up in shuffle because you don't like them is antithetical to the whole spirit of this sort of venture. Once you commit, watch and sit. Buy the ticket, take the ride.