Daft Punk Licensed Their Tracks For Next To Nothing

A soundtrack really is a soul for any film. It plays just as much significant role as the movie itself. Dylan Eiland aka Le Castle Vania says:

It’s also cool getting to see how big a part the music is in terms of affecting the feeling. The whole scene changes depending on the music. I’ll be working on something and see, “Okay, this is making the scene really dark” and you change it and change the whole scene.

With royalty payments and licenses, studios often are seen to settle down for reduced or different music choices than the ones they believe define a film. For Eden, it was turning out to be a probability of not obtaining the rights to use music from Daft Punk. There’s a moment early in Eden when a teenage Thomas Bangalter (played by Vincent Lacoste) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (played by Arnaud Azoulay), the music duo better known as Daft Punk, play their soon-to-be hit “Da Funk” for the first time while DJing a party at their parents’ house.

This scene that would be proving as a pivotal point in the movie and for anyone who is well aware of Daft Punk’s work, it stayed essential to have their own production during that scene. The Eden co-writer Sven Hansen-Love luckily was in touch with Bangalter and through that connection, Eden was able to gain license of three Daft Punk tracks for just about $3,700 contrasting to which the normal price in the neighborhood would be $1 million. It’s really all about who you know and have good relationship with.