Getting ready for autumn’s appearance of the new Tron film, Tron: Ares? Get in the mood with a double album on colour vinyl by Daft Punk of the million-selling Tron: Legacy soundtrack.
Reelased in 2010, it’s the only film score by the French music duo. The score features an 85-piece orchestra, recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Studios in London, arranged and orchestrated by Joseph Trapanese.
Daft Punk cited Wendy Carlos, the composer of the original Tron film, as well as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, John Carpenter, Vangelis, Philip Glass, and Maurice Jarre as inspirations for the soundtrack, which blends orchestra and electronics for a pretty epic soundtrack experience.
Electronic Sound is offering copies of the 2021 pressing, on clear and blue transparent vinyl.
Tron: Ares is scheduled to be released in the UK by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on 10th October 2025. It follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.
Directed by Joachim Rønning from a screenplay by Jesse Wigutow, based on a story by David Digilio and Wigutow, it’s the third instalment in the Tron series and a sequel to Tron: Legacy.
The ensemble cast includes Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson, with Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn, from the previous instalments.
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I like the way DP cited all those composers as inspiration.
But not Hans Zimmer.
When it sounds exactly like Dark Knight-era Zimmer. From a time when every movie seemed to have that sound. It was the law.