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With Daft Punk making a very brief, blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearance in the latest Adidas Star Wars viral video promotion and Tron Legacy popping up here and there to stoke the fires of anticipation I've since come across what seems to be the  best fan based Daft Punk blog . They've posted an official looking image to say Daft Punk confirming the tune called Fragile is a fake Tron soundtrack but further reading has revealed some tasty artwork combining them and Star Wars. The one below is my favourite: There's dozens of Tron artwork as well so I'll be keeping a close eye on this French site. Using Google's Translate service you can view the English text version of Daft Punk's Daft World .

  Picked this up from following Daft Punk on Twitter . They seem to be breaking new photos and the odd bit of news about Tron:Legacy which comes out next year.

According to Data Transmission and Last.fm, Daft Punk will be touring Europe next year (2010). This hasn't been confirmed properly but worth looking out for ticket news. Instead of cramming everyone in a tent or small field they're playing in stadiums including Wembley Arena , London. There's nothing on the Arena or Le Zénith website yet but the search continues. Jul 30 Le Zénith, Paris, France Aug 1 Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands Aug 3 Allianz-Arena, Munich, Germany Aug 5 The O2, Dublin, Ireland Aug 7 Parc des sports, Nice, France Aug 15 Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York NY, United States Aug 22 Sydney Football, Sydney, Australia Aug 28 Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne, Australia Sep 3 Wembley Arena , London, United Kingdom Sep 6 City Of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Game & Movie news Couple of pieces of news to make the future seem that more brighter in a week of rainy gloom. The soon-to-released mixing game, DJ Hero from Activision has released its full listing of song mash-ups. Data Transmission has the full details but highlights are DJ Shadow , Beastie Boys, David Bowie (Let's Dance), Justice (Genesis), Gorrilaz, Killers and Tears for Fears plus, of course, Daft Punk as mentioned in a previous blog entry. Speaking of the Paris Punk Princes (c), as well as scoring the new Tron Legacy film, they'll also be appearing in it - hopefully as their full robot selves. Worst Previews website has the details.

Forthcoming music game shows Daft Punk characters mashing up Robot Rock, Da Funk, Around the World, Short Circuit, Technologic and Television rules the nation. DJ Hero - Daft Punk Trailer by Activision

Get your own retro-style, ZX Spectrum bleepy Daft Punk covers from The Lemur Blog . There's 22 tracks to choose from on the album Da Chip. Nice album cover as well!

Today I found the new Daft Punk tune for the not yet released film, Tron 2 or Tron Legacy. First impressions are that it's not a dance record but gets very hypnotic, building into complete crowd chaos if played live. The blog I found it is Chic Moustache Club but since returning to it the embedded clip has changed into the film's trailer. The audio clip can be found on The Hype Machine website . The video clip below is an interesting reveal of the new film's lightcycle design. As the press and fans enter the special room you get to see the draft drawings in the corridor then the main room shows a full sized lightcycle. Make sure you listen to the video camera owner getting very excited when he see the real bike. Another strange web discovery is this video of Thomas Bangalter making a surprise guest slot DJing three records with Busy P in LA - just him without the Daft Punk helmet. The video is jumpy but clear quality and the sound chaotic with the crowd wetting themselve...

Apparently, the French robo-sapiens have made a film called Electroma . Here's the trailer link .There's no speech and the plot follows two robots who want to be human. Rumour has it that one of the members has an ear problem and has been advised by doctors to stop doing live performances so what we saw at Global Gathering might never be experienced again.

Harder Originally uploaded by Ginger DJ . Just a small entry for Thursday. Went to my normal karate class with my sensei announcing it would be all kumite (sparring). Usually I pick up minimum injuries such as bruises but this time resulted in one bloody nose from the sensei himself and one very winded stomach from a higher grade - its supposed to be non-contact. Getting up to the Global Gathering site took forever thanks to the traffic north of Oxford and the M40. Luckily Kerry found a back road and we were soon parking at around 5:30pm. Walking towards the entrance was slightly dodgy seeing a younger bloke on the ground being kicked and punched by two larger guys. Even worse when he somehow got up to leg it then chased and shouting for help. Everyone stood amazed as the two other guys laid in more hard punches shouting out to not do it again then he ran off again. Very scary. Queuing up was no way as bad as last year thank god and the searches were very relaxed until we spot...