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Daft Punk split after 28 years

2021-02-23T12:22:27.928Z


The two French DJ Daft Punk separates after 28 years, author of hits that have become classics of their kind. (HANDLE)


It is the end of an era.

And not just for the pandemic.

After almost 30 years of career Daft Punk, the symbolic duo of transalpine electronic music, the so-called 'French Touch' that has conquered the world with songs that have become classic in the four corners of the planet, from 'One More Time' to 'Get Lucky'.

The two, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, together since 1993, have announced the end of their collaboration with a video as sober as it is beautiful and enigmatic, "Epilogue", posted on YouTube ..

The eight-minute long film shows the two artists covered in their proverbial robot masks walking across a Nevada-style desert.

Initially they proceed at the same pace, then one of them accelerates the pace, they remain separated, for a while, until they find themselves together again, face to face.

One of the two, the one with the silver helmet takes off his leather jacket with the words 'Daft Punk'.

He turns and the partner sets off a time bomb attached to his back.

A sequence (taken from the video clip 'Veridis Quo') that ends with a spectacular explosion in the style of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabrinskie Point.

Follow the dates '1993-2001', then the final in music, with over two minutes of chorus 'Hold on, if love is the answer you're home', taken from their piece 'Touch', on the images of a spectacular sunset .

The announcement of the separation of 'Daft Punk' has sparked a sea of ​​reactions on social media, with an average of 32 tweets per second, according to the Visibrain study.

Friends since school, Thomas Bangalter, 46, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 47, have always remained ultra-discreet.

Very rare are their photos without helmets, which allowed the two to lead a relatively quiet life outside the scene.

There are those who say that one of the two often takes the dog for a walk, undisturbed through the streets of Montmartre, without many recognizing him except those of the neighborhood.

Their proverbial anonymity, which over the years has helped create myth, mystery and legend, has also become a gag in Mia-Hansen Love's 'Eden'.

Despite the millions of records sold around the world, the two are left out of the Parisian social evenings, because the bouncers are not able to recognize them.

Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel founded Daft Punk in 1993, very quickly becoming the champions of the so-called 'French Touch', between electro, house and techno sounds.

Their first album was released in 1997 with the famous 'Around the world', then a chain of overwhelming successes that made the whole world dance and not only in a figurative sense, from 'One More Time' (2000) to the most recent 'Get Lucky' (2013) played by Pharell Williams.

Source: ansa

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