Daft Punk – Digital Love
Daft Punk’s 2001 Digital Love, third single from Discovery, paired vocoder romance with a featured solo and a George Duke sample.
What if Daft Punk had never worn their robot helmets?
In late 1999, Daft Punk leave two unfinished robot helmets in a box and put their faces on every sleeve, stage, and headline that follows.
Homework – Da Funk from a Paris bedroom
On 20 January 1997, Daft Punk released Homework on Virgin and Soma, a debut cut mostly at Daft House in Paris after early Soma 12-inches.
Daft Punk – One More Time
Daft Punk’s One More Time (Discovery, 2000): Eddie Johns sample cleared, Auto-Tune made audible.
Daft Punk – Instant Crush
Daft Punk’s Instant Crush (Random Access Memories, 2013): Casablancas vocal, Bangalter/Homem-Christo, Columbia.
Random Access Memories – Live musicians, Nile Rodgers, Album of the Year
In May 2013, Daft Punk released Random Access Memories on Columbia, a live-musician disco record built as if the internet had never existed.
Daft Punk – Something About Us
After the filtered house of One More Time and Aerodynamic, Discovery (2001) slows down. Soft electric piano, a muted beat, and a vocoder vocal on a quiet lyric. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo wrote it for Virgin.
Daft Punk – Veridis Quo
Near the end of Daft Punk's March 2001 album Discovery, the filters slow down. Veridis Quo, written and produced by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo for Virgin, runs about 5:44, with a steady kick and a harp line.
Daft Punk – Revolution 909
Officers shout over the kick: stop the music and go home. Then the track keeps going. Revolution 909 closes Daft Punk's January 1997 debut Homework, written and produced by Bangalter and de Homem-Christo for Virgin.
Daft Punk – Robots who remembered the room
Daft Punk took French house from Homework's club filters to Discovery's helmets and worldwide radio.
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