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“I think I was sitting in front of the TV as a kid watching like Saturday morning video clips,” he said.
“In fact, definitely. I think it was ‘Da Funk.’ I almost remember the first time. I wasn’t really into that kind of music then, but it definitely stuck in my brain. I was like, what is this?”
Reflecting on the emotional toll of their break-up, he went on: “I mean, I guess I wasn’t expecting to be as emotional as I was.
“Especially because I watched the video they released, that kind of eight-minute thing, which I think has already been on a movie of theirs, obviously re-contextualised for them announcing their split up, but it really moved me.
It might be the track that opens
Discovery, but ‘One More Time’ makes for the record’s smash-hit centrepiece. The edges have been sanded back, the textures smoothed out, the songwriting finessed. Hefty drum hits break out across the hazy sample, pushed to the back like a distant memory, as the lean lyrics almost certainly unforgettable take hold.
The album was envisaged as an exploration of childlike wonder, and pulling from their own upbringings, Homem-Christo and Bangalter turned ‘One More Time’ into the perfect song to keep the party going just that little longer. It’s a love letter to the transformative power of music one strong enough to get a room of people on their feet with little more than a contagious beat.
Iconic French DJ duo Daft Punk breaks up after 28 years
French electronica duo announces split in 8-minute video, ending nearly 3 decades of hit-making H. J. I. / AA
23.02.2021
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Iconic French DJ duo Daft Punk breaks up after 28 years
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo made the announcement in a highly stylized video titled Epilogue
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Daft Punk, the iconic Parisian electronica duo whose pop-infused funk and futurist aesthetics brought nearly three decades of hits to international audiences, have split, they announced Monday.
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo made the announcement in a highly stylized video titled Epilogue in which the musicians are seen walking through a desert landscape. Donning their iconic robotic helmets they come to a halt, and face each other as one removes his leather jacket to expose a detonation button on his back.
Daft Punk announce split as Scots fans mourn electronic music giants
The French duo revealed they d split in an eight minute long video entitled Epilogue featuring footage from their 2006 film Electroma.
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Daft Pukn say goodbye in Epilogue film (Image: Daft Punk/YouTube)
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