Ten Daft Punk whips to dance like when we were happy

The duo Daft Punk and Beyoncé at an event organized by the Tindal music platform in March 2015 in New York.Jamie McCarthy

When

One More Time

was published

in 2000, Daft Punk received an avalanche of criticism for overusing the devil's gadget, the

autotune

.

Twenty years later the group has decided to retire and the

autotune

is already an instrument as basic in pop as the guitar.

If someone has patience to scrutinize the most listened to songs of the last five years.

A bet: at least 50% use this voice deformer that so irritates those nostalgic for pop of sixties heritage.

A Parisian duo of Thomas Bangalter (45 years old) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (46) announced this week that their career has come to an end, after 28 years.

Daft Punk is surely the most successful electronic group in pop history.

A band that managed to become a pop reference for all audiences.

With the concerts stopped, it may be the best time to leave, so we will not yearn for their absolutely wild shows, preferably at festivals, with thousands of people exchanging fluids, something unimaginable even for a long time.

One of the surefire songs in those scorching live demos was

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

, on loan from Edwin Birdsong.

Clever Kaney West relied on her to compose his

Stronger.

When we listen to

Da Funk it

is inevitable to remember that brilliant video of Spike Jonze, with the man-dog walking through the streets of New York and interacting without anyone being surprised that he is an animal.

A five minute masterpiece.

Musically,

Da Funk

ranks second for best bass sound treatment in a pop song.

The first is

Billy Jean.

During its almost three decades of career Daft Punk has always respected both its classics and its contemporaries.

In addition to executors, they have been considered followers of music.

In

Burnin they

pay homage to

90s

house

.

Another irresistible song with a video featuring leading figures of the genre such as Roger Sanchez, Derrick Carter or Roy Davis Jr.

Have we talked about tributes?

There's

Get Lucky

, paying tribute to the disco era of the late seventies.

It was also his most successful piece.

When it emerged, some of its followers did not understand that the duo was humanized, that it used traditional instruments (not only machines) and that it invited mass pop figures like Pharrell Williams or Nile Rodgers, the legendary member of Chic, one of the the capital groups of the seventies disco fever.

We're not forgetting

Digital Love

, with lyrics by DJ Sneak and a loan from the

1979

song

I Love You More

by eclectic pianist George Duke.

Okay, if anyone doubts that machines cry, feel and suffer, let them listen to this song where even a guitar solo sounds!

Eddie Van Halen.

Although the duo revealed that they treated it with a sequencer.

Around the World

is repeated up to 144 times

in the song of the same title.

And we want more.

This track is a new demonstration of the duo's funk passion.

Seven minutes of non-stop dancing.

What a wonder.

But it's not all wild dance at Daft Punk.

One of their best songs is

Doin 'It Right

, performed vocally by Panda Bear (Animal Collective), a song so rich it works as a sobering

lesson

for lane

indies

.

We completed the decade with

Robot Rock,

with a

riff

taken from the song

Realize the Beast

, by Breakwater, that drills you, and so at ease;

and with

Instant Crush,

an eighties techno-pop piece with the suggestively warped voice of Julian Casablancas, from The Strokes.

Daft Punk are gone;

we only have to dance.