Daft Punk didn't always present as robots. They weren't even the first robots in music for that matter (see the pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk or the '70s rock band Space). Yet, upon ...
Earlier this month, the instagram account for Ed Banger Records shared a quick clip from a vinyl pressing of “Riga (Take 5),” an alternate version of a song recorded by Daft Punk member Thomas ...
The robots teamed up with Pharrell Williams only twice on Random Access Memories, but the 13-time Grammy winner made those collaborations count, lending his vocals to two of that album’s biggest hits.
A pair of Vocoder-distorted voices bounces the words “robot” and “human” off each other until they create a Pong-like pulse. A programmed beat then thunders behind these vocal volleys, and is soon ...
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Even at the beginning of their career, Daft Punk found new ways to pair music with images—and in the process, pushed forward the visual languages of not just dance music but pop, full stop. For the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by After more than two decades at the forefront of electronic dance music (while in a robot-style helmet), the French artist is releasing “Mythologies,” ...