{"id":13899,"date":"2020-08-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riffsandbeats.com\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:12:15","slug":"revolution-909-daft-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riffsandbeats.com\/fr\/chroniques\/titres\/revolution-909-daft-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Daft Punk – Revolution 909"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Homework, 1997-98: French house groove, raid skit, Roman Coppola’s tomato video<\/h3>\n

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Officers shout over the kick: stop the music and go home. Then the music does not go home. Revolution 909<\/em> closes Daft Punk’s January 1997 debut Homework<\/em>, written and produced by Bangalter and de Homem-Christo for Virgin. The album cut runs about 5:24; a radio edit trims it near 3:45. After Da Funk<\/em> and Around the World<\/em>, this instrumental keeps a French house groove and opens with a spoken raid that mirrors late-1990s French pressure on free parties and raves. The \u00ab\u00a0909\u00a0\u00bb in the title points straight at the Roland drum-machine feel that carries the groove.<\/p>\n

There is no guest vocal and no radio chorus, just filter, kick, and a loop that keeps going when the police arrive. Virgin released the track as Homework<\/em>‘s fifth and final single on 16 February 1998. In the duo’s early catalog it is thirty seconds of dialogue about the police, then four minutes of house that ignore the order. The joke and the anger sit in the same bars: the officers speak, and the 909 stays on.<\/p>\n

Roman Coppola directed the video: a raid, a tomato-sauce flashback that doubles as a cooking lesson, and a loop that brings the story full circle so a raver can slip away while an officer stares at a stain on his shirt. Coppola later called it the \u00ab\u00a0tomato video\u00a0\u00bb in D.A.F.T.<\/em> commentary and said he had always wanted to shoot an instructional cook piece. A remastered upload and making-of later resurfaced for Homework<\/em>‘s 25th anniversary, but the 1998 cut remains the reference. The recipe subtitles are one gag. In the edit, the raid and the tomato sauce trade places. Coppola kept both gags in the 1998 cut.<\/p>\n

The police-raid skit that opens the cut states the Homework point: dance music under threat, filters still moving. Roman Coppola\u2019s video put the joke on television while club DJs kept the groove for peak-hour sets. Closing the debut on the skit and the groove was a deliberate sequencing choice.<\/p>\n

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Stop the music and go home. I repeat, stop the music and go home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Opening skit, Revolution 909, Homework, Virgin, 1997)<\/em><\/p>\n

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As a single, Revolution 909<\/em> never chased the chart height of Around the World<\/em>. As a Homework<\/em> closer, it is a French house track that names the police conflict in the first bars and then keeps the groove. Anniversary playlists still use it when they need the debut’s police skit, issued as a single on 16 February 1998, without a long spoken section.<\/p>\n

The spoken raid ends and the 909 continues. The opening order is still in the first bars, and the kick keeps going after the officers speak. The track still closes runs of early Daft Punk: a French house groove with a plot, and the tomato joke from Roman Coppola’s video. It works as the skit that opens Homework<\/em>‘s last track and as a club track after that.<\/p>\n

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