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Daft Punk Break Up
- CobsterLock 6y agoThis whole time I thought they were working on a new album. Very sad to see the end of this legendary duo.
- cesaref 6y agoDon't be - be excited for whatever projects they turn to next.
- thomas 6y agoPart of me is always quite envious of people who cleanly close one chapter of their life and move on to the next.
- cheschire 6y agoI feel a deep respect for people who experience their 15 minutes and then choose to leave it or move behind the scenes rather than searching for that next addicting dose of fame. Folks go on to become producers, directors, stage actors, video game voice actors, music label owners, teachers... It always seems like an interesting story that I would love to know more about, and yet I feel that the act of learning more would itself tarnish their shift, and I try to respect them by digging no further.
- pault 6y agoMore like 25 years of fame. :)
- flycaliguy 6y agoI bet a lot of artists develop a drug problem, hit rehab and recalibrate.
- MuffinFlavored 6y agoThe Strokes comes to mind. I think I read that the lead singer made the best music when on drugs but has since gotten clean. Unfortunately, the music he/they made sober wasn't as well received critically? Something like that.
- reissbaker 6y agoIt wasn't the lead singer (Julian Casablancas) who had a drug problem, it was the guitarist, Albert Hammond Jr. He wasn't any better when he was on heroin, though; the band started out without it. The Strokes mainly just hated each other after they got famous. Angles, their fourth album, was famously recorded without Julian ever being in the same room as the rest of the band.
- ryandrake 6y agoEven if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad. I'm a bit of a classic rock / prog rock fan. These bands are getting old, and they sometimes have staff changes as a result of band members dying of old age. Went to a Yes concert recently and have kind of mixed feelings about it. It's like Steve Howe and a backup band. I mean it's great that these older artists "still got it" and want to keep doing what they love, but from the point of view of a fan, maybe it's best to call it a day when your best work is firmly in the past.
- MuffinFlavored 6y ago> Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad. I wonder if that is part of why they called it off. Maybe they've created all of the music they could both come up with? Maybe the creativity tank ran empty?
- tracerbulletx 6y agoLike watching Metallica play corporate events and kick over stools.
- vlunkr 6y agoSame, I think you have to be really mature and self-aware as an artist to know when it's the right time to quit.
- exadeci 6y agoIt would have been nice of them to do a world tour one more time. But of course their break up is probably due to a disagreement between the two of them so it wouldn't have been possible if they don't want to spend time together.
- redisman 6y agoIsn't job hopping the norm in the tech industry too? I can't imagine staying at a company for 28 years.
- ACAVJW4H 6y agoJust as I was listening to https://youtu.be/zhl-Cs1-sG4 https://youtu.be/zhl-Cs1-sG4 :(
- xd1936 6y agoEpilogue: https://youtu.be/DuDX6wNfjqc https://youtu.be/DuDX6wNfjqc
- nicolashahn 6y agoThis completely sucks. I had a bucket list item to see them live. Definitely my most listened-to artist ever. Best of luck to their next endeavors though, I hope they both continue to make music.
- maxclark 6y agoI was in the same boat. Just never seemed to be in the right place. 28 years is an incredible run.
- afavour 6y agoI wouldn't discount the possibility of one-off reunion shows in the future, provided they parted on good terms (and that's usually the case when a band has been together 20+ years) (FWIW, I was very smug that I got a ticket to one of LCD Soundsystem's goodbye shows. It was awesome. They reunited a few years later, released albums and resumed touring ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoPhil Collins did a "First Finale Farewell Tour." Then followed it with a "Not Dead Yet Tour."
- Thaxll 6y ago"Announcement": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc
- mu_killnine 6y agoI love daft punk and had countless nights in college studying, gaming, and coding to their albums. I will continue to love their music but totally understand wanting to move onto something new after almost 30 years :) Best of luck to them in whatever they move onto next
- lm28469 6y ago> gaming I used to play HL 2 while listening to Discovery, I know, kinda weird, and now every time I hear songs from this album I have HL2 flashbacks. Somehow these are some of the most vivid memories I have, I can still see the screen and the in game scenes
- alexmorenodev 6y agoI had this same feeling with SNES games and Diablo 2 and stuff I listened to when I was 10 till 14 (especially with System of a Down). Took me years to disassociate then. Not that I wanted, but it happened eventually.
- baron816 6y agoBands don’t seem to break up as often as they used to.
- sparkling 6y agoI found their last few albums to be rather weak, lacking innovation. Who knows, maybe in a few years after a break they can get back together with a fresh mind and produce something great.
- bjakubski 6y agoThey've recorded a total of four albums (five counting the "Tron: Legacy" soundtrack)
- bitwize 6y agoCongratulations, you found the "everything they did after Homework sucks" snob.
- olivierestsage 6y agoI think it's a little more complicated than that. Human After All was widely panned on release (and in my opinion remains very hard to listen to), but then was "rehabilitated" by the Alive 2007 live album. And Random Access Memories always felt like it lacked the energy of their earlier work, sort of like lounge music. Just one opinion, but not necessarily snobbery.
- jjaredsimpson 6y agoI feel like Alive should count even though its not new material. It's so good and different take on their own tracks.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 6y agoI know that music taste is subjective, but Random Access Memories is a masterpiece.
- pault 6y agoI think a lot of people were expecting more of the electro that they pioneered and got turned off by the heavy disco influence.
- AcerbicZero 6y agoI’ll miss them, but they’ve made some terrific stuff so far, and I’m sure it gets hard to maintain that same level of passion indefinitely. Best of luck with whatever they chose to work on next.
- donatj 6y agoI genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person. On the one hand I find this news horribly disheartening, on the other hand I am thrilled to see them go out on top. They have never had a bad album, and I’m my opinion they only got better as they went. Godspeed you beautiful robots.
- steve_adams_86 6y agoOh man. Discman on the bus. Those words punch me right in the memory. Likewise, I had a period of time listening to daft punk’s discovery that was fairly transformative. It completely, with no exaggeration, overhauled my understanding and appreciation of music.
- donatj 6y agoGuessing the numbers on your username to be significant, we’re of the same vintage. Discovery, Radiohead’s Kid A, and Bjork’s Vespertine defined my late teens - an age that basically defined my musical tastes. It’s interesting how music does such an amazing job of worming itself into your brain.
- steve_adams_86 6y agoHaha, you're speaking my language. Kid A was just as high impact as Discovery. What a beautiful album. I agree. Those songs are so deeply ingrained in me that if I heard 100ms of them I could probably tell you which song I heard. I can barely remember how to pour myself a glass of water some days, but that music is deep in my brain.
- fumar 6y ago100% carrying around my prized possessions, discman + CDs or minidisc, was pivotal to who I am now. And always with me was Daft Punk's Discovery. At that age, the songs felt long but in a good way. I couldn't wrap my head around the undulating changes and how it they made music. I also love Homework but Discovery has been a top album for me since I was 12. Veridis Quo captured my imagination and was a big influence which I believe led me to enjoy artists like Sigur Ros.
- christian008 6y agoI wonder if they tried to create something better than Random Access Memories for the last 7 years only to find out that it’s the best to leave it at that high note.
- keiferski 6y agoI always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to the how to be famous problem. Everyone recognizes their artist name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their real name or would accost them on the street.
- yboris 6y agoConsider The Residents - a 4-person musical group with eyeballs instead of heads who have been anonymous for about 50 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents
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- Mediterraneo10 6y agoSeveral other musicians have done the same through mask wearing. Gene Simmons of Kiss was probably rarely recognized in public before, much later in life, he started appearing in television programs without his makeup. MF Doom, Sia, the list goes on.
- agumonkey 6y agoSia was face on during most her first years
- dajohnson89 6y agoshe did some amazing work with zero-7.
- agumonkey 6y agoHonestly I can't fathom her solo career, the zero seven era was so brilliant. I'm happy she gets some wide recognition, wealth and comfort, but musically she is off now. Her gamut is trimmed it's all loud and no subtlety.
- cognaitiv 6y agoBest Daft Punk show I ever saw was Lollapalooza with LCD Soundsystem opening on the nearby stage. LCD Soundsytem closed with “Daft Punk is Playing..” and Daft Punk emerged in a pyramid and absolutely melted our faces.
- fc373745 6y ago2007 alive was my personal favorite set from them. They mashed up quite a bit of their all time tracks into absolute bangers.
- ethbr0 6y agoI happened to catch them both in Madrid (Summercase) and Miami (Bang) in 2006. It's not often I'd travel to watch the "same" show twice. That was a nuts setlist and show period. Especially since my going to Madrid was via hearing about it from a hotel concierge and "Hey dad, I know we're here for your business, but can I go to this music festival, across a city neither of us know, that speaks a language I can maybe passably bang out?" Bless non-helicopter parents. :)
- imwillofficial 6y agoWill your dad adopt me?
- ethbr0 6y agoUnfortunately, I think he's happily retired from child rearing duties, and I know he happily spends most of his time fly fishing in Wyoming. ;)
- BLKNSLVR 6y ago"Fly Fishing in Wyoming" should be the title of Daft Punk's retirement album. It's such an evocative phrase. (although it would cause confusion with the band "Trout Fishing in Quebec").
- arethuza 6y agoWell, I guess we still have M83 and Carpenter Brut to supply French synth awesomeness, but I'll really miss Daft Punk.
- oraphalous 6y agoCarpenter Brut... Bless...
- tim_hutton 6y agoFrench 79: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAv5pLO37mE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAv5pLO37mE
- exlurker 6y agoOoh. Thanks for this! RAM is my favourite, and this really appeals to me. May I recommend back; Betamaxx has a wonderful 80s nostalgic sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5mRTkJmFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5mRTkJmFA
- munificent 6y agoThis live set is just a delight all the way through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRvoa9p-SQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRvoa9p-SQ I'm envious of both his gear and the talent to use it so well.
- strictnein 6y agoIs Air still around? Still probably have my copy of Moon Safari somewhere.
- technics256 6y agoMy favorite band in my youth. Revolutionary music. Time to play the vinyl once again.
- gdubs 6y agoDaft Punk is one of the first band websites I remember — sitting in my college computer lab on a candy colored Mac. IIRC, it was a few “space men” on screen, and when you hovered over them it played sample loops.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoI put my baby to bed on the rocking chair patting his back to the Tron soundtrack, bass is great for babies!
- aphextron 6y agoI don't believe it yet. But I can see the logic. They're kind of in a Half Life 3 situation with regards to Random Access Memories. At this point, there's almost no way imaginable they could top it, and anything they do come out with will probably be compared unfavorably.
- symlinkk 6y agoI thought RAM was already on the downturn. They peaked with Discovery and Alive 2007 in my opinion.
- agumonkey 6y agoRAM felt producer nostalgia based, legend namedropping and such. The daft spirit was gone to me.
- sincerely 6y agoI mean, it’s basically the album version of “Teachers” off Homework :P
- YorickPeterse 6y agoI always felt RAM wasn't so much a downturn, just too different from their past work (which was the reason I liked them so much). I suspect the reason is the duo simply wanting to do different things. After all, they've been Daft Punk for almost 3 decades.
- arcticfox 6y agoEveryone has their own opinion on the content, but RAM won the most prestigious Grammy Award. From a recognition perspective there's not really anywhere to go but down.
- symlinkk 6y agoGrammys are a joke. In 2014 Macklemore’s album “The Heist” beat out Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid Maad City” for best hip hop album.
- strictnein 6y agoI remember the first time I heard and saw the "Around the World" video. It must have been summer of 1997(?), when MTV still played music videos and they played the "weirder" ones late at night. Was poking online at stuff and had the TV on in the other room and I heard this weird (as in different) song come on, head to the other room to see that strange music video and I was immediately hooked. They only showed the artist at the beginning of it, so I had to stay up another 2 or 3 hours until the entire segment repeated itself to catch who it actually was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80
- EricE 6y ago"I had to stay up another 2 or 3 hours until the entire segment repeated itself to catch who it actually was." Ah, the days when phones were on the wall with a cord too. At least MTV did still play music back then. And the record industry wonders why file sharing sites took off? I loved limewire because I could find songs I liked, then I would grab everything else that person had and I discovered so much new content - I bought more CDs than I ever would have otherwise simply because I discovered stuff I didn't even know existed. I still haven't found anything that could match that discovery experience; it's kind of crazy really.
- strictnein 6y agoIt's crazy how Youtube is the MTV of our dreams. If I could have had access to just the music videos on Youtube in 1995, I would have thought it was the greatest invention in history.
- mjgs 6y agoI still remember when MTV started where I was living, it was a very big deal for teenage me.
- pqdbr 6y agoI remember very vividly the first time I listened to Daft Punk. I was maybe 16 years old (circa 2003) and was one of the first times I was traveling without my parents. I was on a skydiving trip with my instructor and crew. At night, there was a big party at the DZ, and at a certain time the DJ dropped "One more time". I was talking to someone and went "wait a second, I need to do something". I walked up to the DJ booth and asked him "Man, what is this song you are playing?!" He smiled, pulled up a CD cover for Discovery and said "Congrats, you have been daft punked". Such a powerful track... it kickstarted my passion for house and EDM in general.
- simlevesque 6y agoOne of my regrets in life is not going to Alive 2007 because I was young and none of my friends wanted to go with me.
- zucked 6y agoDitto. My "home" venue is Red Rocks. I got invited but I didn't feel like it and didn't want to spend the $50. Oof.
- pmarreck 6y agoI was 35 and didn't go. I have no excuse.
- l33tbro 6y agoI purposely didn't go. Still don't regret it. I was a fan since before Homework was released - and before they had the robot get up. When my friend told me about the Coachella show in 2006, I was admittedly pretty excited. But I checked out an early Youtube clip and thought it was sort of ... lame. The pyramid / Close Encounters concept was amazing. But there was nothing live - nor 'alive' - about that show. Compare this to what they were doing in 1997, when they were actually remixing 'Homework' in real-time with an ingenious midi network of synths, samplers, sequencers, and drum machines - and the 2007 era just seemed to pale in comparison. Even the late Phillipe Zdar was not into it - and told a mutual friend that 'It's just a light show'. I feel like he appreciated what I did about the audacity of that Alive 1997 era. With all that said - I'm pretty sad to know that they're no longer doing their thing.
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- albertshin 6y agoI feel like the artists/celebrities/directors who publicly announce that they're quitting usually end up coming back in a few years... Director Miyazaki comes to mind in more recent years. Those that actually "quit" just quietly drift away out of the public scene.
- mongol 6y agoI don't understand why they do it so publically. Have they felt a lot of pressure and this is the way to put an end to that? I haven't followed them closely, but RAM are many years ago. Have their been a lot of rumours about their next project lately?
- charkubi 6y agoMaybe there'll be a Stardust reunion.
- seapunk 6y agoGreat duo. Interview of them in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmVdGvoQXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmVdGvoQXk if anyone is nostalgic for the days when French electronic music was emerging, I recommend the Mia Hansen-Løve's movie "Eden" (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIzEL9BoDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIzEL9BoDc)
- vegardx 6y agoInstant Crush on Random Access Memories pretty much sums up how this makes me feel.
- 1_2__4 6y agoI’m old enough to remember when Daft Punk was arguably best known for having a really bizarre and fantastic semi-furry video for “Da Funk”, directed by Spike Jonze.
- spectaclepiece 6y agoI heard this story which I’m not sure is true but could very well be. Apparently two guys claimed to be Daft Punk in Ibiza and racked up massive bills everywhere before splitting. Needless to say that didn’t make them very popular there before everybody figured out what had happened.
- devin 6y agoDoubt it. These guys played Ibiza plenty in the 90s. People would know.
- SubiculumCode 6y agoBreak up? Probably more like retirement. 20+ years man.
- theptip 6y agoI’d encourage anyone who might just know them for “Get Lucky” to go back and do a full play through of the discography, Discovery and Homework were really watershed albums, particularly notable at a time when house music was driven by singles/EPs on vinyl and few were putting together full, cohesive albums.
- bredren 6y agoI thought Get Lucky’s quality was more a reflection of Pharrell and Rogers’ talent than DP. The rest of that album was a whiff. That said, GL the song and video were great and no hiding the string of classics. I remember hearing Around the World on the radio for the first time and pulling my car over. I was in high school. A few notes on this video: 1. I wonder if this was delayed due to the bomber in Nashville. Still seems almost too soon. 2. Obviously has black rock vibes, looks like one continuing on to the mythic show at the trash fence. 3. Suggests one member wanted to keep daft punk going, where the other had enough. Otherwise I would have expected a mutually assured destruction. The symmetric hands around the dates suggest amicable closure prior to conflict of ruin, which would be for the best in any partnership.
- coldpie 6y ago> The rest of that album was a whiff Aww. It's no Discovery, but I quite like RAM. More than Human After All, anyway. "Contact" and "Giorgio" in particular are stand out tracks to me.
- bredren 6y agoI tried to get into the Giorgio tracks. Certainly appreciated the nod but the album was marketed as a banger and felt left in a lurch apart from GL. Fwiw, I felt set up by the early marketing hype on the tractor-trailers in Japan, which I thought inaccurately portrayed what was to come.
- RangerScience 6y agoWord is that their manager has stated that the annual Trash Fence show is the only thing that'll continue, as it always has.
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoI remember the electric atmosphere in the auditorium going to see the film the Epilogue video is taken from, Electroma [1], on screen. It was only playing in a single cinema in the world in Paris and only at midgnight. So glad I got to catch that. I am kind of glad to hear that Daft Pank is over and I say this as someone who their music means a lot to. The arc of their art is complete and there is nowhere left for them to go without it becoming forced, awkward or irrelevant: teenagers with attitude and samplers to elder statesmen recording with an orchestra. As this is HN, does anyone remember their more interesting dives into technology: Daft Club [2] and the multi-angle DVD of D.A.F.T. [3]? This quote [4] about Daft Club, and the state of music on the internet, from 2001 is really interesting in hindsight: > It's great to find a new channel where there is an open access, open door to more, but not more than had to be done before. It's establishing a connection between people that listen to our music and ourselves. There's no limits of time, and it helps people get and listen to this music. A track that could have been done today can be online tomorrow. The other thing is to really express ourselves through the Internet. > ... > Napster is a cool thing with us. The important thing is to make a difference. Napster is a positive thing because it raises questions, it raises issues. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20020804191122/http://www.daftclub.com/index.php https://web.archive.org/web/20020804191122/http://www.daftcl... [3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279758/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279758/ [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20070609232158/http://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12053561 https://web.archive.org/web/20070609232158/http://music.yaho...
- imwillofficial 6y agoI was a Daft Club member! I remember being made fun of when I was like 15 listening to Human After All, and people just not getting it. Daft Punk was the soundtrack to my hacker youth. I’m forever grateful and wish them the best in their retirement.
- flycaliguy 6y agoDaft Punk is what united my high school anime nerds with the “obscure” music nerds. What a lovely little merger we made. This would have been 1999 or so.
- maaaaattttt 6y agoI still remember seeing the Alive set at a festival in France. They were headlining but I didn't really care about them anymore back then. I went to the concert anyway as it was the last of the night. The whole show blew my mind! The stage, the lights, the mashups that made the old songs feel like new and made the new songs don't feel so new. I can tell you the 30+K people attending the concert that evening were almost all in trance during and after the show. I cared again about them after that! I also remember listing to the live record (which is the Paris recording if I'm not mistaken) after it came out and it was very different of the one I saw. So definitely some live creation happened during that tour, or some in-between sets work maybe (if you don't believe in magic). Side note and personal opinion, I think "Veridis Quo" would be the perfect soundtrack for this announcement, and is one of my all time favorites of them. Here's to a bright future for both of them hopefully!
- coldpie 6y agoThere's a couple bootlegs of various showings of the Alive 2007 concert, and they're all noticeably different. I imagine the 1997 sets were even more different, back when they were a bit more experimental. Cool that you got to see them, I never did :)
- maaaaattttt 6y agoIndeed, just went to see if I could find the show I saw, and I could [0] (though the footage is terrible). Just the use of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind sound at the beginning gives me goose bumps again! [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2DSzbt6wco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2DSzbt6wco
- jahlove 6y agoLink to the Epilogue video (why couldn't pitchfork link this?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc
- jacobsenscott 6y agoIt is there - scroll down.
- dep_b 6y agoI liked the rawness of their first record. After that their sound became more pumpy and digital and I just lost interest.
- ntechau 6y ago> I wouldn't discount the possibility of one-off reunion shows in the future I don't think Daft Punk are the type of artists to screw over fans by creating "Last Show Evarrrr" and "Final Reunion Tour (It's serious this time)" type shows. > I would not be at all surprised if you get the chance to see them perform together again. People seem to be ignoring the meaning within the video. The way he clenches his fist before the explosion. The solitary walk into the sunset. I would not be at all surprised if one of them was terminally ill.
- kart23 6y agoThe footage is taken from a film in 2006. I don't think that meaning is there. Even if they were having some type of health issues, I doubt we would know, at most probably some type of announcement after a death. Agreed on your first point though.
- maeln 6y agoIt's an excerpt from their movie Electroma https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ . I really don't know if we should look too much in the meaning of the scene.
- 908087 6y agoI honestly kind of wish they had hung it up a long time ago. Outside of the Tron score and a few other things, nearly everything I've heard from them in the past decade or so has had me wishing I hadn't heard it at all. Along those same lines.. I was crushed when Orbital first called it quits, but somehow the music they started releasing when they got back together made me wish they had just stayed gone.
- pqdbr 6y agoIf you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
- thedudeabides5 6y agoAnyone else think it ironic that they announced their retirement by blowing up out on the playa "by the trash fence"
- kart23 6y agoI always felt like 'Contact' was a goodbye in a larger sense. I hoped they would do the new Tron movie soundtrack, but I guess that honor is going to someone else now.
- wbronitsky 6y agoThis poses an interesting question to me: Daft Punk is a kind of meta-band, in that it’s members are not necessarily real people. For a more clear example, we can take The Gorillaz, a band made up of cartoon characters. So what does it mean for such a meta-band to “break up” when they only existed during concerts and on records. Does that mean the people behind it won’t make more music? I sure hope not!
- ridaj 6y agoNah they had pseudonyms but they came out as real people for sure. They didn't create characters for themselves as they would have if they'd intended for others to take over the role
- wbronitsky 6y agoFair. Instead of a meta-band, it’s more of a shtick, where they said they were robots, then made an album called Human After All where they sound like robots. A bit like the games the White Stripes played with Jack and Meg’s relationship, but still not in meta-band, or even perpetual band territory
- redisman 6y agoIt's like GWAR or Slipknot. They like to dress up for (limited)anonymity and some extra flavor.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoMany music artists use different names for different projects - they're very rarely "real people". Only tangentially related, but The Archies were topping the charts all the way back in the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar
- samgranieri 6y agoFunny thing, I was listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack as I was scanning HN headlines and saw this headline.
- giantrobot 6y agoShit. I just learned all the lyrics to Around The World!
- neom 6y agoSounds like they re-mastered or even re-recored touch at the end, really beautifully remixed. I'm gonna miss DP a lot, huge huge fan. Thankfully Kistune is still putting out a lot of good music.
- aequitas 6y agoI wish I could play the ending of touch slower so it lasted even longer. It's one of those songs that tells a whole story without words.
- jawngee 6y agoSaw them at Even Furthur in 1996 and they melted everyone's mind. One of the most amazing musical wow moments I've ever witnessed.
- tomputer 6y agoI remember that ‘Da Funk’ was played daily on MTV somewhere in 1995-1996. I was 10 years old and did not know the artist but loved the sound/beats and the strange video with the dog character walking in the city. A few years later I (re)discovered their music and went to the Alive 2007 show in Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall. During the show, they also played “Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You”, which was also produced by Thomas Bangalter. The ‘Stardust mix’ has only been released on a limited edition (disc 2) of the Alive 2007 album: https://www.discogs.com/Daft-Punk-Alive-2007/release/1141123 https://www.discogs.com/Daft-Punk-Alive-2007/release/1141123 Edit: it seems it is on Spotify. Not so limited anymore. :-)
- supergirl 6y agoafaik they were not very active anyway; not like they were touring often. the break up only makes sense if one of them wants to do something else
- rcarmo 6y agoGood thing I saved this 20th anniversary (very well crafted) post from Pitchfork in 2013: https://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/ https://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/ Was an amazing thing to scroll through in 2013, and actually holds up well in modern browsers.
- mackrevinack 6y agoi was really hoping with daft punk always pushing the envelope that they would come out with some VR type experience or something really off the wall like controlling the music on stage with one of those neural brain links. basically become one with the machine! but maybe it's another few decades until that kind of technology well be ready
- bensons1 6y agoI suddenly feel much older.
- mwlp 6y agoWhen I was young, I would often visit my neighbor's house to play with legos or watch stop-motion lego videos on YouTube. One day I went over and his older sister was hosting a party where her and her friends all watched Interstella 5555. I don't think I've had a more culturally mind-melting experience since then. I didn't rediscover Discovery until Tiesto's "Louder Than Boom" in a Tap Tap Revenge brought me into the world of electronic music. While many genres fell in and out of my taste growing up, electronic (and eventually French House in particular) never once faded. I'm infinitely thankful for Daft Punk and their art which has long been and will long be my chosen soundtrack for life.
- trollied 6y agoI was lucky enough to see them live at Sankeys Soap in 1997. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NVjNC2ZjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NVjNC2ZjA Was a great night ;)
- jmfldn 6y agoDP were great but in the second half of their career what they were good at was continuing to cultivate their mystique and their image. That in itself is quite a hard thing to do in the way they did it. Kraftwerk and only a few others were able to be that famous and also faceless, cool and unique at the same time. I think I ended liking the "idea" of them almost more than their music weirdly. Musically they haven't pioneered for many many years. Everything after Alive, ie. half their career, was mediocre at best. They sustained a very high level of fame and influence through quite a small number of great songs and an amazing image, long after their prime in the late 90s / early 00s. Anyway, au revoir to a legendary group nevertheless.
- Nekhrimah 6y agoIf you're not aware, check out Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. [0] This is an animated movie set to the album Discovery. No dialogue other than the music of the album. Done by Toei Animation, a notable Japanese animation studio. You may have seen the music videos for One More Time and Harder Better Faster Stronger. They were just part of a full narrative arc. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
- bdowling 6y ago> Done by Toei Animation, a notable Japanese animation studio. The animation was also overseen by the manga and anime legend Leiji Matsumoto [0] (famous for Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999, Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers), others). According to the Interstella 5555 Wikipedia page [1], Daft Punk wanted to work with Leiji Matsumoto because Captain Harlock had been a big influence on them when they were kids. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiji_Matsumoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiji_Matsumoto [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of_the_5ecret_5tar_5ystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of...
- dang 6y agoIf curious, past threads: Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446223 - April 2016 (98 comments) Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 - Feb 2016 (69 comments) Daft Punk Lego Minifig raytraced in your browser. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550736 - April 2014 (2 comments) Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” explained using music theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491174 - March 2014 (1 comment) How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011035 - Jan 2014 (94 comments) Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996054 - July 2013 (82 comments) Desire for Daft Punk's iconic helmets creates cottage industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770913 - May 2013 (12 comments) Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595277 - May 2011 (13 comments) Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539509 - July 2010 (22 comments)
- cl0ne 6y agoI ask the DJ to play an underground Italian new wave minimal electro duo... Of course he doesn't have it. I settle for Daft Punk.
- efwfwef 6y agoThere used to be a real energy to French electronic music. Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc. Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French electronic artist?
- johnnycerberus 6y agoKavinsky.
- joachim4 6y agoGesaffelstein is bringing an innovative sound, Brodinski was interesting at some point. Look for Ed Banger Records, they lead a bit the French Touch.
- eps 6y agoWorakls is phenomenal.
- Kavenerinds 6y agoTchami, w/o a doubt. Check out the other artists on his label CONFESSIONS too
- 22c 6y agoI go on French electro kicks every now and then. Feels like I'm giving away the secret sauce here but try French 79, Kid Francescoli, Sébastien Tellier, L'Impératrice, or Isaac Delusion.
- tezza 6y ago* Flavien Berger (Mars balnéaire , Leviathan,888888 and many more ) * L'Impératrice - ( A View to a Kill, many others ) * Busy P ( Il fait chaud - Busy P Remix by Corine )
- ambicapter 6y agoBusy P still making music? That's interesting, he's obvi as old as the members of Daft Punk.
- valuearb 6y agoWere they really ever together? Did they actually even exist?
- Vaslo 6y agoAlways remember going to clubs in the US around the turn of the century and this was so popular. “One More Time” was played at every club.
- Projectiboga 6y agoJust like many other bands, officially "retire", get bump in press and music sales. Leak a "story" about the rift. Solo projects or hiatus. Then "Reunion" with a come back project and mega tour. If they were really finished we wouldn't hear.
- pacaro 6y agoMy brother was their lighting designer for the Daftendirektour in 97, so I got to see them play the Cambridge Corn Exchange, and experience a very mellow backstage. IIRC there is little footage of the tour because they actively discouraged any concert photography (not just fans, but also press and other professional). If memory serves my brother had some photography done for his portfolio, I should ask him if he still has it.
- ianai 6y agoWow sorry everybody. I almost feel responsible. Just this past weekend I really discovered them for myself “for the first time.” Like I’d heard of them before obviously but their music didn’t quite click with me until recently. I really feel like I missed out on some good times. I will continue down this road though. So glad for their music! I can tell it’ll be with me for a long time running.
- tabtab 6y agoThey usually wear helmets. Hire stand-ins and don't tell anybody. (Did I say that out loud?)
- seph-reed 6y agoFor anyone who hasn't seen "Interstellar 5555," it's basically an hour long anime music video all backed by Daft Punks best early hits. Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
- yannk 6y agoDon't worry, they'll be performing at Burning Man 2021
- RobLach 6y agoAnyone see them when they were doing parking lot shows around the upper Midwest at the start of their career? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4lHwjX9pM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4lHwjX9pM The song Teachers calls out a bunch of Chicago house music artists in tribute and was their motivation for starting their first "tour" outside of France in that area.
- ctdonath 6y agoI just played the Epilogue video. My dog freaked out; she has a sad now.
- cicloid 6y agoNobody has mentioned this, but Alive 1997 is the perfect work album/session/set, whenever I need to produce a “pomodoro” I play that album.
- torgian 6y agoOh damn. I grew up on these guys. I first heard a song from them in 99 I think, and started listening to them a lot more during my time in the military. Human After All, Veridus quo, and that one love song were a few of my favorites. Still listen to them whenever I feel down or just need something uplifting to listen to. Their songs always made me feel happy. They're great. I feel like it's been a while in coming, but I assume they're breaking up simply because they're getting older, and probably want to step out of the limelight. Daft punk is great. Like robots from outer space coming to bring a bit of joy in the world and leaving it better than when they first came.
- bane 6y agoTheir early work seems to when from mid to later Chicago house. There's some definite influences in their pre helmet days. But the fantastic Frenchness further transformed their work into samples and meta samples and eventually the amazing soundtrack for Tron legacy. Bravo for a fantastic oevre and thanks for all the beats!
- throwaway743 6y agoNo reason was given, "epilogue" could be wrapping up one part of their story, and the date of the announcement was 2/22/21. Makes me think it's a marketing stunt. They're a duo. Keep an eye on 2/22/22.
- globular-toast 6y agoWhat is it about Daft Punk that gets one of the largest threads I've seen on HN? I find them utterly unremarkable. There's an absolute wealth of electronic music, mostly from the 90s, that Daft Punk is derived from. If you like them then check out Ishkur's Guide and explore more!
- mjgs 6y agoThey were one of the bands that opened me up to electronic music. I was into metal and grunge, but electronic music just didn’t seem like music to me. If there weren’t music instruments I didn’t want to listen to it. I saw them at a festival, I guess it must have been around ‘97. I got to the stage a bit late and made my way to the front. It was loud. Like really loud. The speaker stacks each side of the stage were ridiculously big. I got to the front just as they started playing ‘Around the World’, they had a bunch of dancers on stage dressed up, maybe as robots, and when the beat dropped there was an invisible wall of sound that passed through my body from head to toe to the beat of the music. It’s one of the first beat drops I remember experiencing and thinking wow. It’s difficult to describe in words. The air around me literally was shifting more than the depth of my body, so it felt like an invisible wall of air/sound passing through you. And of course the whole crowd started dancing like it was going out of fashion. I’d never experienced energy like that at a gig. I was pretty much into electronic music after that.
- intellix 6y agoLoved Discovery and a couple of tracks that they released once every 7 years. They were basically already retired anyway so it's not really sad when they aren't releasing anything anyway
- akulbe 6y agoAm I the only one who think calling it "Daft Punk Break Up" means it sounds like a bitter parting of ways, rather than them retiring?