The news fell on Monday, February 22, resounding like a thunderclap in the musical world.
With a video called
Epilogue
in which one of the two robots explodes, the duo Daft Punk announced the end of a long adventure of almost thirty years, which began in 1993. The separation was confirmed by Kathryn Frazier, press secretary of the Californian showbiz .
A masterstroke for these kings of communication, skillfully recycling an extract from the feature film presented at Cannes in 2006,
Daft Punk's Electroma
, which followed the quest for humanity of two android robots.
The Chopin prelude originally used in the film will have been replaced by
Touch
, an excerpt from what will remain their last album,
Random Access Memories.
.
Everyone wonders: why separate, when the duo seemed to be surfing on a cloud?
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