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  • One final time: Daft Punk’s 5 important songs

    By AFP
    PARIS: Electronic music duo Daft Punk, who’ve crammed dance flooring for 3 a long time with mega-hits you’ll be able to’t get out of your head, say they’re splitting.

    As Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo name time on their collaboration — through music video — we glance again on the French pair’s 5 key hits. 

    ‘Da Funk’ (1995)

    This groove-based instrumental monitor from Daft Punk’s debut album was the band’s first worldwide hit and is now thought of a basic of Nineteen Nineties home music.

    It received Daft Punk, who lengthy hid their identities beneath bike helmets, their first Grammy nomination.

    It owes a part of its reputation to its video, shot by prime US director Spike Jonze, which incorporates a man-sized canine with floppy ears and a growth field on the streets of New York.

    ‘Around the World’ (1997)

    The final pared-down Daft Punk tune with its endlessly repeated three-word lyric of “Around the world”, MTV rated it the seventh-biggest dance anthem of all time.

    The quirky French director Michel Gondry made the video that includes dancing mummies, skeleton males, synchronised swimmers and Martian spacemen. He mentioned its “genius was always using repetition and stopping before it’s too much”.

    ‘One More Time’ (2000)

    You is not going to have escaped this membership anthem’s invincible beat when you have set foot on a dance ground prior to now 20 years. 

    “One More Time” debuted at primary within the French charts, quantity 6 within the UK and the auto-tuned vocals by US DJ Romanthony make it straightforward for anybody — and everybody — to sing alongside.

    Still must jog your reminiscence? The full lyrics are “One more time/ We’re gonna celebrate/ Oh yeah, all right/ Don’t stop the dancing.”

    That could also be why the readers of US journal Rolling Stone voted it the perfect dance monitor of all time in 2012.

    ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ (2001)

    From Daft Punk’s second album, this upbeat electro-pop monitor scooped one of many duo’s six Grammy awards. Revolving round a jumpy robotic chorus of “Work it harder, make it better”, it was popularised once more by US rapper Kanye West when he used a vocal pattern from it in 2007 for his tune “Stronger”.

    ‘Get Lucky’ (2013)

    One of the group’s most lined hits, the tune that includes US singer Pharrell Williams spawned a whole lot of parodies. 

    Its addictive, ear-worm melody even prompted French president Emmanuel Macron to boogie in his seat at France’s often sombre Bastille Day navy parade in 2017 when a military band carried out it. 

    While the remainder of the rostrum acquired into the groove, the pop reference flew over the coiffed head of stoney-faced US President Donald Trump.

  • Grammy-winning duo Daft Punk break up after 28 years

    By Associated Press
    NEW YORK: Grammy-winning digital music pioneers Daft Punk have introduced that they’re breaking apart after 28 years.

    The helmet-wearing French duo shared the information Monday in an 8-minute video known as “Epilogue.” Kathryn Frazier, the band’s longtime publicist, confirmed the break up for The Associated Press.

    Daft Punk, comprised of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, have had main success over time, profitable six Grammy Awards and launching worldwide hits with “One More Time,” “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” and “Get Lucky.”

    Bangalter and de Homem-Christo met at a Paris college in 1987. Prior to Daft Punk, they shaped an indie rock band named Darling.

    They formally shaped Daft Punk in 1993, and the helmeted, mute and mysterious musicians launched their debut album, “Homework,” in 1997. They first found success with the international hit “Da Funk,” which topped the Billboard dance charts and earned them their first Grammy nomination. A second No. 1 hit and Grammy nomination adopted with “Around the World.”

    Daft Punk frolicked touring world wide and reached better heights with their sophomore album, 2001’s “Discovery.” It included the infectious smash “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” which Kanye West famously flipped into his personal hit “Stronger,” launched in 2007. It received West the most effective rap solo efficiency Grammy on the 2008 present, the place West and Daft Punk carried out collectively onstage.

    A yr later, a stay model of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” received Daft Punk the most effective dance recording Grammy — their first win — and their “Alive 2007″ album picked up greatest digital/dance album.

    But it was the 2014 Grammys the place Daft Punk actually took the highlight, profitable album of the yr for “Random Access Memories” and making history as the first electronic act to win the highest honor at the Grammys. The duo won four awards that night, including record of the year for their bombshell hit “Get Lucky,” that includes Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.

    “Random Access Memories” was thought to be a genre-bending album highlighted by its mixture of stay instrumentation, disco sounds, funk, rock, R&B and extra. Rolling Stone ranked it No. 295 on their checklist of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” final yr.

  • Grammy-winning duo Daft Punk breaks up after 28 years

    Grammy-winning French duo Daft Punk on Monday introduced it’s breaking apart after 28 years. The digital performers shared the information Monday in a dramatic, eight-minute video referred to as “Epilogue”.
    A publicist for the group, comprising Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, confirmed the break up, reported the Variety. “Epilogue” begins with the duo, who’ve hid their identities behind large helmets, strolling round a desert with the same headgears and leather-based jackets with Daft Punk printed on them.

    A couple of minutes into the video, their tempo of strolling begins to vary. As one walks forward, the opposite is left behind. Moments later, the member, who has gone fairly far, turns again to seek out the opposite performer standing nonetheless taking a look at him. The latter bows down his head, his physique language displaying resignation, as his companion walks as much as him.
    As their eyes meet, certainly one of them removes his jacket and reveals an vitality pack on his again. The different member hesitatingly opens the pack and switches on a button. The one with out the jacket begins transferring away and inside seconds explodes. The remaining artiste then walks away slowly because the group’s tune “Touch” performs within the background.
    Daft Punk was fashioned in 1993 however its debut album, “Homework”, launched solely in 1997. In between, the group dropped two singles- “Da Funk” and “Alive”- each of which grew to become large hits.
    In a celebrated profession spanning virtually three many years, Daft Punk has given a number of memorable tracks like “One More Time”, “Digital Love”, “Get Lucky” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”, which earned the duo a Grammy in 2009.
     Daft Punk’s remainder of the 5 Grammy Awards got here for its albums “Humans After All” (2006), “Alive 2007” in 2009 and “Random Access Memories” (2014) and the 2014 observe “Get Lucky”.

    For a era that obtained launched to Daft Punk in the previous few years would swear by “Starboy”, its 2016 collaboration with R&b singer The Weeknd. In truth, one other work of the trio, “I Feel It Coming”, grew to become an enormous come across its launch days after “Starboy”.