Daft Punk posts video, "Epilogue" - (quit / split up)
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Managed to see them in 2006 (Global Gathering) and had sneaking suspicion that I wouldn't get another chance, but that's okay.
Thanks for the chord memories, boyos. Rock the Discoteque!
Thanks for the chord memories, boyos. Rock the Discoteque!
This is sad news. I created lasting friendships due to the common love of Daft Punk. At least I'll still have some good memories.
Man, Daft Punk has always been very special to me. I must of played RAM 200 times on my long commute to work when it dropped. I was telling my wife the other day how they haven't released an actual DP album in forever and that the new one has to be fucking amazing. This fucking sucks. Touch is a masterpiece, that song takes you on a beautiful trip. I hope this is all a stunt.
Had to think about this for a moment.
The Prime Time of Your Life/The Brainwasher/Rollin'/Alive (Alive 2007 - Call it cheating but this is top tier Daft Punk at its best)
Aerodynamic
Revolution 909
Face to Face
Something About Us
Special Shout out: Flynn Lives | Lose Yourself to Dance
Makes them look like a real industry band now... for so long they always seemed different/mythological in my mind and now they just don't and it sucks
Sometimes good things come to end. They had good run and made real bangers.
Around the World is still one of my most persistent earworms.
Around the World is still one of my most persistent earworms.
I've seen some kinda negative takes on my timeline regarding whitewashing. I can't really say that I agree with most of them cause at the end of the day DP were respectful and honest about what they did, but there is a conversation to be had about how they managed to get huge while avoiding the perception of being white artists in a black genre. They weren't actually robots.
High Life
Too Long
Indo Silver Club
Burnin'
Revolution 909
High Life
Too Long
Indo Silver Club
Burnin'
It's been so long since they've really done anything I figured they had ended the project without saying it years ago, Fugazi-style
Alive 2007 is a personal top 5 live album. Incredible stuff.
Alive 2007 is a personal top 5 live album. Incredible stuff.
I always loved that Homework has a song where they just straight up name-drop their influences over a beat.
I don't really see it any different to Deadmau5 wearing a big foam mouse head
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They didn't even wear those robot helmets until 1999. I was a fan of them since their Homework days.
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They didn't even wear those robot helmets until 1999. I was a fan of them since their Homework days.
Giants. I remember getting absolute hooked in the late '90s when I really started discovering music as a kid and they just dropped some really great stuff. I used to tape their stuff off the radio and just crank it full blast while biking around my small town late at night, bombing down huge hills. Great memories.
Aww your biking memories sound awesome. what track do you associate with that memory most? :)
I remember in one the threads about them someone said that a DJ at a hotel by the seaside where they were spending summer was playing "Nightvision" every night on a loop. And that it felt like being on some fantastical JRPG seashore. That description somehow really struck a positive chord with me, even though I never really played JRPGs - I know exactly what that poster had in mind.
Yeah, that's part of what got me thinking about this. That's hella cool but even now in retrospect there's a lot more conversation around the non-humans in their lore than those real influences.
I don't think it's different, but Daft Punk started it. I think the bigger thing to note is the amount of investment that's gone into their careers and how it fits into the music industry as a whole.
Definitely Around The World. The longer runtime really just makes it a meditative track for great nighttime rides.
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They didn't even wear those robot helmets until 1999. I was a fan of them since their Homework days.
Well yeah, they became robots after the famous studio accident at 9.09, the 9/9/1999
The original story they gave in 2000 for initially becoming robots was that they were normal humans working on their second album in 1999 when their sampler exploded, mortally wounding them and destroying what they had been working on, then they got robocopped into robots and had to start over. And from then on their music was an expression of their newfound experiences living as robots.
Electroma came a few years later depicting the robots struggle with identity and humanity. Which I guess now takes place in 2021.
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There are several videos on how they sampled in Discovery, but the visualisation in this clip is nice:
Electroma
Electroma
Broke my heart they held the top spot for so long for my favorite musical group.
A part of me hoped that if they broke up they'd at least release a goodbye song or album but another part of me believes they lost the passion for anything close to their traditional sound considering it isn't particularly new anymore and thought theres no reason to force it.
A part of me hoped that if they broke up they'd at least release a goodbye song or album but another part of me believes they lost the passion for anything close to their traditional sound considering it isn't particularly new anymore and thought theres no reason to force it.
Got to see them live at least in one of the last shows of the Alive tour in 2007... Damn it's been so long.
Actually started tearing up, their music has meant so much to me for so long. Like most break ups, I hope it was something they decided to end respectfully and that there is no bad blood. Doesn't seem like there is, but they're pretty private so I doubt we'd ever know for sure.
I know it's kind of just a promo video too, but I'm surprised that it looks like Thomas was the one to call it after so long. Maybe he's done with music for the foreseeable future. Here's hoping that Guy wants to stick around and turn out sounds.
Ah well, I'll miss them.
Been a hell of a Voyage.
Actually started tearing up, their music has meant so much to me for so long. Like most break ups, I hope it was something they decided to end respectfully and that there is no bad blood. Doesn't seem like there is, but they're pretty private so I doubt we'd ever know for sure.
I know it's kind of just a promo video too, but I'm surprised that it looks like Thomas was the one to call it after so long. Maybe he's done with music for the foreseeable future. Here's hoping that Guy wants to stick around and turn out sounds.
Ah well, I'll miss them.
Been a hell of a Voyage.
I always liked the idea of them passing the torch onto another duo, but anonymously. Because of the robot guises you'd theoretically have a perpetual band just going on and on.
Look up, Electroma.
It's a troma film so expect it to be experimental and art housey. But I loved it.
I will look forward to the yearly rumors of them reuniting at coachella. Just like the yearly rumors of them performing in general at coachella.
This is for real a bummer though.
This is for real a bummer though.