Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Daft Punk/RIP
Hypnotic electronica, combined with Escher like choreography/environment, accurately describes
Daft Punk's Around the World video without question.
Music’s most famous working Parisians, the improbable superstars who went from rave kids to dance heroes to standing next to BeyoncĂ© at the TIDAL launch event, are apparently calling it quits after a long and fruitful career.
The timing and manner of the announcement may seem odd, but it still bears mourning.
From electronica wunderkinds to disco-house savants to hired-gun production wizards, Daft Punk lived many musical lives in their time together. Their influence extended to everything from Top 40 to underground hip-hop, and even in the most fallow times, they were a totem for hipster coolness, the kind that people like James Murphy invoked with a mix of deference and irony. But nearly three decades of success and several iterations of fame couldn’t change them
—they were intent on keeping the helmets on till the very end, even as their progeny rose and fell around them. And if there’s one thing they understood better than any of their would-be successors,
it’s that the best way to keep the mystique alive is to never reveal who’s behind it.
Exactly
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