Composition
Musically,"Robot Rock" has been described as electronic rock [8] [9] and dance-rock. [10] It contains a sample of the Breakwater song "Release the Beast". [7] The sample features a synthesizer riff with an oscillator sync timbre,as well as percussion and power chords on an electric guitar. Daft Punk incorporated a vocoder [11] into the production,repeating the title phrase of "Robot Rock". Aside from the sampling,Thomas Bangalter noted that the duo used a Moog synthesizer with guitar pedals for the song. [12]
The Breakwater sample is credited on the single's sleeve and on the liner notes of the parent Human After All album. [7] [13] Bangalter explained that on his Roulé label,"we've been doing records that are 9 minutes with only [a single] one second loop,with even less foundation than there is on 'Robot Rock'. It's always been a way to reinterpret things—sometimes it's using [an] element from the past,or sometimes recreating them and fooling the eyes or the ears,which is just a fun thing to do." [14] He elaborated that the song "is a tribute to the power of heavy rock chords. In a way I think we were exploring if you can take the essence of rock—that power—and mix it with dance. But to take a riff and loop it is to explore the core of rock." [15]
The Breakwater synthesizer riff is absent from the "Maximum Overdrive" remix of "Robot Rock",which consists of the song's other elements for a duration of nearly six minutes. A music video for this remix has been shot and included on the Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 1993–2005 compilation CD and DVD.
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