Daft Punk Live-Seriously this time.....

seeing as DP didn't really need any of those concerns satisfied afaik, i'm unsure what the point of breaking up is

maybe they fell out with each other, or one or both of them no longer feels motivated to create music, or their manager kept hassling them about doing a record and they split up just because they were sick of his texts

or just to give it a nice theatrical ending.

sampling effort, the way you know a sample is good or not

Like to make my customary DP comment on ILM that I find it exceedingly odd that they never recorded a song in which a female voice is foregrounded…

not defending ram here which is a different story but i always thought the vocals were pretty androgynous?

Well shit. Saw them at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in 2007. Best live show of all time. Was hoping they'd storm back with a house record, but alas.

sampling effort, the way you know a sample is good or not

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bangalter’s gonna keep doing the music for gaspar noe films and wanted to make sure his calendar was clear

I never knew this. WOW!

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— Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain) February 22, 2021

or one or both of them no longer feels motivated to create music

just watched Epilogue: haven't seen Electroma, and assume it is an outtake from that. but if not and they went to a desert to film this during the pandemic, seems clear that the message is that Thomas is the one who wants to quit (also less likely since he's always been more prolific outside of the band).

lol xp to mh

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/daft-punk-kanye-west-coachella-unpublished-interview-1234912789/

seems clear that the message is that Thomas is the one who wants to quit (also less likely since he's always been more prolific outside of the band).

we've established that I have trouble reading your posts and it's happened again - here with the parenthetical

it doesn't really mean anything either way, just guessing that if one of them were dried up creatively in 2021, it'd more likely be the one who's generally done less music outside the group. (even Le Knight Club was a duo, and mainly filtered disco loops...)

they've both done collabs independently of the other in the past few years - Thomas with the Arcade Fire, Guy-Man with the Weeknd and Charlotte Gainsbourg

was the Parcels track the last released thing that they worked on together??

afaik, but I didn't know Guy-Man had done Weeknd stuff without Bangalter

he co-wrote & produced one track on My Dear Melancholy along with Gesaffelstein. what i didn't know is that he co-wrote & produced Kavinsky's "Nightcall"!

neither has been that prolific with solo collaborations really, they've both done about the same amount

had a couple of co-writes on the Tellier album he produced too

Bangalter has done solo stuff (and a little more writing?) as well as other collabs, was my idle half-thought. but it turns out the video is taken directly from the end of Electroma, so no runes to scry either way.

Digging to catch up on the bits they've done since Parcels (in 2017):

Thomas produced and co-wrote Supercherie (2018, kinda Get Lucky-lite) and produced, co-wrote, played synth and sang on L'autre Paradis (2019) for -M-.
Guy-Man wrote the music, co-wrote the lyrics and produced Rest by Charlotte Gainsbourg (2017, mixed by the other bloke from Le Knight Club), and Hurt You (2018) is that Weeknd song with Gesaffelstein.

also was not aware that Natalie Imbruglia had released a cover of Instant Crush

I kind of wonder if the continuity they’ve had since the large-scale festival and arena shows that’s followed through to appearing in the helmets in a variety of tv performances and collaborations has kind of boxed-in the brand. The between-album shifts and minor reinventions are a little trickier to pull off when you’re yoked to the robot helmet shtick?

Random Access was the biggest style shift of all, played with real humans in contrast to the robot helmet schtick. Probably would have been time for a major helmet redesign if they made another record, or just go full anonymous - the helmets were a very minor part of the image when they debuted for Discovery, given the Interstella 5555 videos.

https://miro.medium.com/max/800/1*38WCDE3LajjMlasKnhAFiA.gif

li'l cuties

The Helmets were actually designed for the Discovery era. Interstella 5555 doesn’t feature them much since the idea for the anime was developed with TOEI in the early stages of Discovery and the helmets came after, developed by Alterian. At one point the helmet designs even had hair.

Here’s a short interview with helmet creator Tony Gardner, where you can see the hair design and explaining the process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtjucCWeOf4

Also more info with some early nsfw photoshoots:

http://alterianinc.com/creative-boom-daft-punks-discovery-at-20-collaborators-on-crafting-the-iconic-robot-look-and-revolution/

was this already posted?

Original Daft Punk helmets under construction by Alterian Inc. pic.twitter.com/Ja3mF5M16b

— Daft Punk Fandom🤖🤖 (@Daft_Wub) February 18, 2021