Home · Artists · Daft Punk

🇫🇷 France · 1993–2021

Daft Punk

Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo met in 1987 at the Lycée Carnot, a high school in Paris. They became friends, recorded demos together, and in 1992 formed Darlin', a trio of indie rock with Laurent Brancowitz on guitar and drums. The name came directly from a song by the Beach Boys, which they also covered. It lasted only a short time: about six months, four songs, two concerts. Brancowitz continued his path with another band, Phoenix. Bangalter summed it up like this: «quite normal». From those ashes something different was born.The name Daft Punk wasn't chosen by them, it was given to them by a review.

The critic Dave Jennings, in Melody Maker, described the music of Darlin' as «a daft punky thrash». They found it funny and adopted it. Homem-Christo remembered that they had struggled a lot to come up with «Darlin'», and this new name simply appeared on its own. So they put away the guitars, grabbed drum machines and synthesizers, and started building something else.That something else took shape in 1997 with Homework, released by Virgin Records. The reviews followed, and the singles «Da Funk» and «Around the World» put them on the map of the French house movement, that mix of house, funk, disco, rock and pop that was happening in Paris.

House dance Techno Electronic club 1990s

2 Albums

30 Songs

6,4M Listeners/mo

Start playing

Most played on DoReSol

Essential songs

See all 30 →

One More Time

5:20 02

Around the World

Homework

Daftendirekt

Homework · 1997

2:44 04

Funk Ad

Homework · 1997

0:50 05

Alive

Homework · 1997

5:15 06

Indo Silver Club

Homework · 1997

4:32 07

Burnin'

Homework · 1997

6:53 08

Oh Yeah

Homework · 1997

2:00 09

Rock'n Roll

Homework · 1997

7:32 10

High Fidelity

Homework · 1997

6:00

2 album|s · 1997 — 2013

Full discography

2013 ★ Essential

Random Access Memories

13 song|s · club

1997 ★ Essential

Homework

16 song|s · club

Details, awards, members and more

More about Daft Punk

Biography

Since 1996 they were managed by Pedro Winter, director of Ed Banger Records, a relationship that lasted until 2008. And from 1999 they adopted the helmets, the gloves and the robot suits: a visual identity that they maintained in all their public appearances from then on.The second album, Discovery (2001), came with «One More Time», «Digital Love» and «Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger», and was the basis of Interstella 5555, an animated movie supervised by the Japanese artist Leiji Matsumoto. In 2005 came Human After All, with mixed reviews, although «Robot Rock» and «Technologic» worked well in the UK.

In 2006 they premiered the science fiction film Electroma, went on tour in 2006 and 2007, and released the live album Alive 2007, which won a Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album. In 2010 they composed the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy.The end came with Random Access Memories (2013), now on Columbia Records. The single «Get Lucky» entered the top 10 in 27 countries, and the album won five Grammys in 2014, including Album of the Year and Recording of the Year. In 2016 they achieved their only number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with «Starboy», alongside The Weeknd. Rolling Stone placed them in 2015 as the twelfth best musical duo of all time.

In 2021 they announced their separation.

Details

Nacimiento: 1 ene 1993
País: 🇫🇷 France
Género: House

Awards and honors

Brit Awards

Record labels

Daft Life Columbia Records Columbia Virgin Records Virgin Soma Quality Recordings Soma Parlophone Warner Records Warner Walt Disney Records Walt Disney Alternative Distribution Alliance ADA France