Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) and Nile Rodgers collecting the Grammy award for 'Get Lucky' in 2014, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.KEVORK DJANSEZIAN / AFP
French electronic pop duo Daft Punk part ways after nearly three decades of activity.
It has been announced by the publication
Pitchfork
, a benchmark for independent pop and rock.
It was the group's representative, Kathryn Frazier, who confirmed the news to
Pitchfork.
Daft Punk, who has yet to speak personally, has posted a video on his YouTube channel titled
Epilogue,
featured in his 2006 film
Electroma
.
This data put the fans on the track until Frazier confirmed that, indeed, it is the end of the race in common for the Parisians.
Daft Punk is formed by the French Thomas Bangalter (45 years old) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (46).
One of its characteristics is that they are always hidden under robot helmets.
The group started their career in 1997 with
Homework.
His proposal was always to make electronic music with a pop essence.
In
Discovery
(1999) they published
singles
that achieved success as
One More Time, Digital Love
or
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
In 2013 they published their latest work,
Random Access Memories,
where the song
Get Lucky
was included
,
which brought them the greatest success of their career.
They were number one in sales in thirty countries, including Spain.
In this song they were accompanied by Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, the legendary leader of Chic, an essential group of the disco explosion of the late seventies.
In fact,
Get Lucky
was to some extent a tribute to those disco nights by New York's Studio 54, and the album also pays tribute to Giorgio Moroder.
With his farewell, he loses one of the most influential groups of recent years, capable of breaking down the barriers between electronics and pop and appealing to all audiences, and who have even appeared in films such as
Eden,
by Mia Hansen-Løve. .
They have directed both animated films such as
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
(2003) and fiction films such as
Electroma
(2006), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors' Fortnight.