Rating:
Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 11/20/2007
Discovered's omissions of
Barry Manilow's
"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed" (sampled on
"Superheroes") and
Barry White's
"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More Baby" (
"Da Funk") will not break the hearts of too many
Daft Punk fans, but the compilation's failure to license the correct and original versions of a couple selections --
Chaka Khan's
"Fate" and
Oliver Cheatham's
"Get Down Saturday Night," two tracks that don't require any kind of hipped-up context to sound spectacular -- is a definite sore point. The light guitar fillips that stream throughout
"Music Sounds Better with You" (credited to
DP member
Thomas Bangalter's short-lived
Stardust) are nowhere to be heard in the chunky house remix of
"Fate" supplied here, which appeared on
Khan's 1989
Life Is a Dance (The Remix Project). Listeners will also be hard-pressed to hear shared sounds between
Daft Punk's
"Voyager" and this house-oriented remake of
"Get Down Saturday Night." Otherwise, the compilation stands up on its own, not just as a way to entertain and shock
Daft Punk fans about the duo's heavy reliance on some mostly obscure funk and disco relics. Fans who have moaned about
Diddy's predilection for swiping entire songs might be miffed when they hear
Edwin Birdsong's
"Cola Bottle Baby" or
Breakwater's
"Release the Beast," but
Discovered illustrates both how bold and creative the duo has been at repurposing unlikely sources, and it'll come in handy at a party.
~Andy Kellman, All Music Guide