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Daft Punk at an appearance in 2019
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Daft Punk have surprisingly announced their end - with a YouTube video that they published on Monday afternoon and which bears the appropriate title »Epilogue«.
With images from their film »Electroma«, the electronics duo says goodbye to their fans after 28 years.
When asked by the music website Pitchfork, the musicians' long-time press agent confirmed the news, but did not give any reasons for the separation.
Since it was founded in Paris in 1993, Daft Punk consisted of musicians, DJs and producers Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.
Their band name was taken from a concert review of their previous band Darlin ', in which their music was described as "stupid punk".
After they had made a name for themselves in the Paris club scene and contributed to the hype surrounding the "French touch" -alled variety of House, they released their debut album "Homework" in 1997, which they suddenly made known to a global audience and played a key role in popularizing electronic music Dance music contributed beyond the relevant clubs.
Elaborate videos for singles like "Da Funk" or "Around the World", staged by shooting stars like Spike Jonze or Michel Gondry, made Homem-Christo and Bangalter pop stars, although they never appeared in person and their faces did too Concealed concerts under motorcycle helmets.
"Homework" was followed by the two studio albums "Discovery" and "Human After All" as well as the soundtrack for the new edition of "Tron" before they released their most successful album in 2014 with "Random Access Memory", but as it turns out, their last album .
With global hits like "Get Lucky", Daft Punk once again reached a new level of popularity and won four Grammys, including that for the best album of the year.
In 2020, rumors temporarily surfaced that Daft Punk would be working on the soundtrack for a new film by horror director Dario Argento.
But spokesmen for the band quickly clarified that they were not involved in the film.
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