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Early stages of Daft Punk
Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop.The duo's songs are considered essential in the French house scene. The group was managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (Busy P), the head of Ed Banger Records. Early in th -
Homework
In September 1993, Daft Punk attended a rave at EuroDisney, where they met Stuart Macmillan of Slam, co-founder of the label Soma Quality Recordings. The demo tape given to Macmillan at the rave formed the basis for Daft Punk's debut single, "The New Wave", a limited release in 1994. The single also contained the final mix of "The New Wave" called "Alive", which was to be featured on Daft Punk's first album.
Daft Punk returned to the studio in May 1995 to record "Da Funk". It became the -
Discovery
In 2001 Daft Punk released "Discovery". it was a synthetic pop album. The album was also acompanied by a japonese produced anime movie called "interstella 5555" that in later years would be shown on cartoon network. The album also represented another "era" in the daft punk history. This lead them to make the Discovery helmets. -
Human After All
In 2005 Daft punk released "Human After All". This album included UK hits such as Robot Rock and Technologic. This also brought up the HAA era (chrome helmets with lether jackets). -
Alive 2007
Daft Punk toured the world with their hit show Alive. Their show's audio did so well that it was recorded and put into an album called "ALIVE 2007". Side note: Daft Punk perform in a giant LED pyramid. -
Electroma
In 2008 Daft Punk released a silent film called Electroma. It showed the struggle of the robots trying to be different in a boring robot town. at the end they fail and comit suicide. Its a dark film but entertaining non the less. -
Tron Legacy
Disney made a movie called Tron Legacy as a sort of sequel to 1982's original TRON. Disney desided to hire non other than Daft Punk to make the whole movie's soundtrack and they even made a small cameo in the club scene. With this movie/album came the "Tron era" (complete with completly white helmets and clothing and blue LED lights on both theit helmets and jackets). -
Random Acces Memories
On May 17, 2013 Daft Punk released Random Access Memories (RAM). The album was a hit success and also gained them a nominee on the grammys. After an amazing performance and a standing ovation, Daft Punk won Album Of The Year. -
TIDAL
A large cast of celebrities (including daft punk for the first time on a broadcasted event in over 2 years) came together for an event called TIDAL. They came together to discus how music producers arent just objects they are leaders of the world. They talked about how they could impact youth with their possitive message. -
Mystery Album
Daft Punk is said to be releasing a new album some time in the future somewhat similar to Discovery (My favorite album). Its supose to have that snthetic pop feel because after all it WAS made in the 90's but never released.