Daft Punk

Veridis Quo

The slow, stately instrumental near the end of Discovery: a synthesizer piece built like baroque chamber music, its lines circling and answering each other over a steady pulse. The title is a play on words – read it aloud and it says “very disco”. Made by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo at Daft House, Bangalter’s home studio in Paris, over the two years of the album’s making, it plays in Interstella 5555, the anime film made with Leiji Matsumoto that uses the whole album as its soundtrack. In 2024 it carried Chanel’s N°5 film See You at 5, with Margot Robbie.

Daft Punk: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Written and produced by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Recorded at Daft House, Paris, 1998–2000. Virgin Records, March 12, 2001. Sources: Wikipedia, Discovery, Daft Punk on YouTube, The Contentmakers, CHANEL N°5, See You at 5: Margot Robbie and the rendez-vous. Photograph: the console of the great organ at Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris, July 5, 2018, by Pufui PcPifpef, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons. This tinted crop is shared under the same licence.