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Popular electronics duo Daft Punk part ways after 28 years

2021-02-22T17:04:15.723Z


The creators of 'Get Lucky' and 'One More Time' have not explained the reasons, and the dissolution has been confirmed by their representative


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.


Source: elparis

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