the history of daft punk

Recently Daft Punk made a video with an explosion of one of their own.

Daft Punk is a group of two Frenchmen from the Paris region, more precisely from Versailles.

Known for having revolutionized the electro music scene. Precursors of the French Touch, Daft Punk were the symbol of the French success story. If recognition came with their first album Da Funk, it was with Discovery that the career of the two Frenchmen took on another dimension. And for good reason, the album includes this:

One more time remains one of the band's cult hits to this day. And still in Discovery, there was :

we can also add this one

You have to go back to 2013 to find the last album of the duo: Random Access Memories.

Who are hiding behind the robots?

The story begins in 1986. And precisely in Paris at the Lycée Carnot where two teenagers meet for the first time. Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.

Water under the bridge, and we arrive in 1992. The two schoolboys are now high school students, and like any good music-loving high schoolboy, they form a band: Darlin' (in homage to the Beach Boys' "Darlin"), a trio composed of the future Daft Punk and Laurent Brancowitz. But they did not succeed in their first few concerts...

They decided to split up with their third album. It is at this moment there in 1993 that it discovers the world of the electronic music and the Parisian raves (rave = evening with electronic music not necessarily legal) the duet discovers a community and an energy which they did not suspect the power.

"We said to ourselves: this is interesting, there is something to do with electronic music. - Thomas Bangalter

Daft Punk then created their first hit. And started to have a number in the European scene. At the same time, Daft Punk is part of the rise of the French Touch.

The beginning of the glory hour of a French touch. Paris is in turmoil. For when Paris sleeps, Paris lives.

Paris is a party according to Hemingway!

And from this nightlife a new scene emerges: Laurent Garnier, St Germain, Etienne de Crécy, Cassius, Dimitri From Paris, Dj Grégory, Bob Sinclar ... and Daft Punk.

With "Homework", Daft Punk decided to hide their faces in order to control their image from A to Z. This anonymity allowed the media to focus on their music and not on their image as rising stars of the techno scene.

Today they have become a mythical and mysterious group known all over the world.

the evolution of masks...