There was music influenced by soft rock, 80s AOR, the same decade’s super-smooth R&B balladry: Superheroes offered a pounding kick drum topped off with a cut-up sample from, of all things, Barry Manilow’s Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed. At least part of the mixed critical reaction to their song-based 2001 album Discovery was down to the fact that it seemed to be dabbling in musical styles considered deeply unfashionable in 2001. Within a couple of years, Madonna had hooked up with another French dance producer, Mirwais, employed to add a distinctly Daft Punk-ish sheen to her 2000 album Music, and the charts were playing host to a succession of soundalike house tracks – 2 People by Jean Jacques Smoothie, who turned out to be a bloke from Gloucester called Steve Phats and Small’s ubiquitous Turn Around and No 1 singles, Modjo’s Lady and Eric Prydz’s Call on Me among them.īy the time the copyists made the charts, Daft Punk had moved on. In fact, no sooner had Homework come out than other artists started to copy it. The style Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo minted on their 1997 debut album Homework – house music heavy on the filter effect, which involved the bass or treble on the track gradually fading in and out, mimicking a DJ playing with the equalisation on a mixer drums treated with sidechain compression, so that the beats appeared to punch through the sound, causing everything else on the track to momentarily recede – is now part of pop’s lingua franca.
on October 27th for a performance at the Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas.I t’s hard to think of an act who had a greater impact on the way 21st-century pop music sounds than Daft Punk.
Best show in a lifetime.” Daft Punk recently returned to the U.S. In June, Daft Punk hit the festival circuit in Europe, the duo’s first major tour in a decade, with shows in the UK, Italy, and the U.S., including a co-headlining performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago and a transcendent, sold-out show at Keyspan Park on New York’s Coney Island that the New York Times described as “a euphoric celebration of the Daft Punk legacy.” As one fan put it on : “To call it a concert or show is an understatement. Daft Punk’s last studio album release was 2004’s Human After All, which featured the club hits “Robot Rock” and “Technologic.” A Daft Punk anthology CD/DVD, entitled Musique Vol. Top 40, followed by their first live album, Alive 1997, filmed at the Que Club in Birmingham, England.
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Discovery followed in 2001, spawning the hit “One More Time,” which cracked the U.S. The album version of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” is currently enjoying a second life and a surge in digital sales thanks to being sampled by rapper Kanye West on his current Top 5 hit “Stronger.” The Daft Punk robots, in their signature retro-futuristic robot gear, also appear in West’s “Stronger” video.ĭaft Punk first emerged on the dance music scene in 1993 with their debut album Homework, a provocative blend of progressive house, funk, electro, techno, and hip-hop styled breakbeats that is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential dance recordings of the ’90s. The video will be included on the enhanced cd. The first single from the album is a live version of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” from Daft Punk’s 2001 album Discovery, accompanied with a video directed by Olivier Gondry (older brother to acclaimed film director Michel) that features live footage shot by fans. The latter, an enhanced cd, features five extra tracks from the show’s encore and 50 pages of photographs shot on tour. Virgin Records will release the album as a single CD edition and as a two-disc set packaged as a bound book. The album was recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, an 18,000-capacity sports arena in Paris, on June 14th, 2007, the CD captures the exuberant multi-media spectacle of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s first hometown show in 10 years in front of a capacity crowd of thrilled fans. The album is available digitally now on iTunes. (PR) The forefathers of French electro-house music, Daft Punk, will release a live album - entitled Daft Punk Alive 2007 on December 4th, 2007.
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