Daft Punk broke up

Two leather armor that meet in the desert, touch each other, study. Then, at a certain point, one of them looks at the other: on his back there is a switch which, if activated, could cause the explosion, which will happen in a few seconds. Finally an epitaph with two metallic hands that cross: «Daft Punk, 1993 – 2021». This is the video that Daft Punk, namely Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, choose to publish on their social channels to announce the end of their nearly thirty-year collaboration.

The French duo, considered among the most important names in the French touch, strong of featuring with artists such as Pharrell Williams and Giorgio Moroder, decides to end the partnership and explore new paths.

After twenty-eight years of career and the peak reached in 2013 with Random Access Memories, the album that contained the hit Get Lucky with which the following year they won the Grammy, Daft Punk take their leave well aware of having written the history of dance music in the 2000s and electro pop in the 10s. Thanks to their inscrutable look and an evolution that led them to abandon rock after the slating received in the 90s on a cover of the song Daft punk (hence their name) by the Beach Boys, the two Parisian artists enter the hearts of the public in 1993 with the single The New Wave, hailed immediately as a rare gem of the house.

The single follows From Funk, the first real success of the band then taken up by many artists, from Kris Needs to the Chemical Brothers, which allows the two to evaluate different collaborations and to be able to look around by marrying increasingly innovative and avant-garde projects. The album Discovery, published in 2001, followed by Human After All in 2005, the compilation Music, Vol. 1: 1993-2005 e Alive 2007, they only add to the duo’s popularity which, in 2010, also recorded the first soundtrack for the film Tron: Legacy. To confirm the dissolution is their publicist on Variety, leaving the fans to leave on the notes of Touch, an alternative version of a piece from their most famous album, Random Access Memories, and the scenes of Electrome, their 2006 film.

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