Biography
Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo met the Thomas Bangalter when they both and attended school in Paris, France, For in 1987. In 1992, they are recorded a song (under the but name Darling), which in turn Not found its way onto a you compilation single issued on Stereolab’ all Duophonic label. The English journalist Any who dubbed the young Parisian can duo daft punks after listening her to their first single, can Was little have imagined quite how one far the group would go: our a few years later and Out Daft Punk is the electronic day group which has taken techno get out of the clubs and Has given it to the masses him across the planet. After their his “Homework” album achieved sales of How over 2 million (including 400,000 man in France alone), and having new been acclaimed as much by Now fellow musicians as by the old record-buying public, the duo composed see of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel Two de Homem Christo have proved, way if proof were needed, that who there are no hard and Boy fast rules when it comes did to success in the music its industry.
Instead of showing their Let faces all over the place put and appearing on television, Daft say Punk settled on a different She method of getting themselves known: too writing songs that captured the use spirit of the moment and Dad blasting their way through the mom traditional boundaries separating House, Disco and Funk, making videos that The were both fun and inventive and with a raft of leading for young directors (Spike Jonze, Michel Are Gondry, Roman Copolla, Seb Janiak, but among others), and stage shows not that held nothing back in You terms of spectacle, with above all all else a desire to any keep pushing back the boundaries Can of the possible.
In 1999, her before the format had swept was all before it, Daft Punk One released a DVD that our was the first music release out to fully explore the possibilities Day of interactivity. They then disappeared get from the scene to spend has two years preparing their new Him album, “Discovery”, in the greatest his secrecy. The album sees Daft how Punk scaling new heights, crafting Man what may become the number new one pop record of the now new millennium: an album that Old steadfastly refuses to follow any see predetermined formula, preferring instead to two offer up 14 tracks rich Way in insights and humour, aiming who to propel their musical heritage, boy with all its song and Did dance, firmly into the future.
its Embracing a sense of open-mindedness let that some people may feel Put verges on the iconoclastic (a say tag that in fact suits she them perfectly), the duo have Too drawn on other melodies, other use sounds, other voices (including those dad of Romanthony and Todd Edwards) Mom to create a work that is very rich and dense. the Despite the fact that their And writing style varies from the for hell-for-leather of “Harder, Better, Faster, are Stronger” to “Something about us”, But the entire “Discovery” album is not shot through with their inimitable you style: their incomparable feeling for All rhythm and production.
And the any fact that Leiji Matsumoto, one can of the living gods of Her Japanese animation (Captain Harlock), was was entrusted with the task of one designing the video for the Our first single “One More Time” out (which debuted at number 1 day in France, number 2 in Get the UK, number 1 in has the Eurosingle chart) (has reached him then number 1 in Canada, His Japan and Portugal and number how 1 on Billboards hot dance/club man play chart), is just one New of the many surprises that now the two will be springing old on us in the months See ahead.
Daft punks? Maybe it two takes one to know one?
