Biography
The real persons of the electronic musical duet "DAFT PUNK" are familiar with fans in the photo in social networks. During performances, the French Tom Bangalter and Gi-Manuel de Omm-Cristo are hiding under the shining helmets - the main component of the stage image of robots. A wave of success covered the group "DAFT PUNK" in the late 1990s, when the popularity of the House of Music was overwhelmed by the country.But the guys found their niche, mixing the styles of electro, disco, a synti-pop and house. Live performances of the duet, colorful special effects, emphasis on the visual component are important, but the main thing - the musicians-revolutionaries opened the era of human punk rock. Electronic sound aggressively, but Bangalter and Omm-Cristo broke the system, "Obligating" music created by computers, filling it with tenderness and emotions.
The history of creation and composition
The first pages of the creative biography "DAFT PUNK" were written in 1993, but the history of the duet began much earlier. The participants of the team - two young Parisians, met in the Lyceum of Carno, being teenagers, in 1987. Toma Bangalter and Gi-Manuel de Omem-Cristo united the love of music. Friends found in the lyceum of like-minded people and recorded the first tracks.
Embed from getty imagesIn 1992, the drummer Laurent Brankovitz joined Tom and Gi-Manuel. This is the composition of the group for which the Paris chose the name "Darlin". Bangalter and Omm-Cristo played guitars. At first, the musicians made a cover on the head of the legendary American pop group "The Beach Boys", then composed his own composition.
The British group "Stereolab", which plays an alternative rock, included both tracks into his mini-album and invited young French people to play "heated". The authoritative English weekly Melody Maker was lowered to sinful land, called "Darlin" "bunch of insane garbage."
Soon the trio turned into a duet: Brankovitz moved to another project. This was formed the current composition of DAFT Punk. Bangalter and de Omm-Cristo radically changed the musical direction, starting experiments with a rhythm computer and synthesizers.
Music
In 1993, the French participated in the mass disco in Marn-la-Vale, where annually, since 1992, dance raves are held by electors of electronic music and DJs. This is the city of Eastern Paris, where in 1943 hectares the park called Euro-Disneyland for the complex of entertainment. By playing your tracks, "Daft Punk" found the first like-minded people and fans.Soon the guys recorded the debut single "The New Wave", the final mix of which entered the first album of the group. Above him, the French began work in the studio in the spring of 1995. In the same year, the second successful single was presented, giving him the name of the group.
At the beginning of the autumn of the 1996th, the guys put a signature under a contract with a British recording label. Bangalter in an interview admitted that the choice fell on Virgin Records, because the company, unlike others, did not try to establish total control over the work of the duet, leaving them the maximum of freedom.
In 1997, DJ electro-workers presented the album "HOMEWORK", including two familiar fans of the single. The most successful was the song "Around The World". Later, criticism noted that the composition of the disk influenced the dance music of the 1990s. Two of them - "Fresh" and "Burnin" - appeared clips.
Parisians, enjoyed by success, decided not to stop: the subsequent creations though resembled the previously preior, but the genres changed and mixed. The sound was added elements of fashion rav.
Duet discography was replenished in 2001. The second studio album "Discovery" doubled the popularity of French DJs, giving club music lovers Singles "One More Time" and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Critics noted new in the style of execution: the musicians first used a syntip-pop. Later they admitted that they wanted to transfer the playful mood and remembered childhood.
In March 2005, Daft Punk pleased the fans with the 3rd album, which, unlike the second, which took itself to the garage-house, was more minimalistic. It uses guitar improvisation.
Critics and fans reservedly met the exit "Human After All". The first reproached for a rush in work, manifested in unjustified reics, the second ridiculed minimalism. But the pair of the singles of the album was still in European charts, and the title track became a hit in France. Next year, the disk came to the "Grammy" nomination as the best dance and electronic.
2006-2007 DJs conducted in touring tours, giving concerts in European and American sites. Under the curtain of 2007, Daft Punk introduced the second "lively" album collected from the speeches of musicians in Paris.
In 2008, Paris DJs made their way to the 38th step in the open voting of the British monthly DJ Magazine, and in February of the next year Dafek Panka handed 2 Grammy Prizes for the 2nd Album of Concerts and Single "Harder, Better, .. . ".
In the spring of 2013, the group pleased with the fourth studio disk "Random Access Memories", this time he received a laudatory review of musical critics and admiration of fans. The presentation of the album was preceded by the release of the "Get Lucky" single, which instantly turned into a world megahit. The "Instant Crush" composition, recorded together with American vocalist and instrumentalist Giulian Casablancas, became a hit. Retrosound of the 4th album helped the French to snatch victory at once in 3 nominations of the American Academy of Recording.
After 3 years, Bangalter and Omm-Cristo released the Single "Starboy" and first fell to the top of the "hot hundred billboard". The composition is recorded in the tandem with the Canadian vocalist The Weeknd. With him, they recorded the second song called "I Feel It Coming".
Shortly after the release of the 4th disk Tom and Gi-Manuel gave an interview with the German tabloid, where they told that he inspires them for creativity. DJs shared that after the release of the next disk, at first do not know how the next and where to move on.
In 2017, the musicians in the tandem with the group "Parcels" recorded the Overnight track.
The popularity of DJs in the homeland says the fact that the Coca-Cola company in 2011 released for consumers a limited series of drinks DAFT COKE, spilled into a bottle stylized under "DAFT Punk". Only the French were able to purchase such "musical" "Coca Cole".
"DAFT PUNK" now
The electronic duet never came on tour to Russia. Domestic fans in vain dreamed of seeing fluorescent outfits of two "robots" from "DAFT Punk" and enchanting scenery. According to critics, the French do not indulge the attention of Russians because producers doubt whether to fill the Olympic. They do not want to risk a wallet.
Embed from getty imagesDaft Punk has an official website and a verified page in "Instagram", where musicians are divided by plans, fresh pictures and videos.
Now Paris "Robots" work on new tracks, and fans on fan sites require them to submit a new album. But the announcements for 2019 did not wait. It remains to hope that DJs will make an unexpected surprise, justify the expectations of club music lovers.
Discography
- 1997 - "Nomework"
- 2001 - "Discovery"
- 2005 - "Human After All"
- 2013 - "Random Access Memories"
Clips
- 1997 - "Fresh"
- 1997 - "Burnin"
- 2000 - "One More Time"
- 2001 - "HIGH LIFE"
- 2001 - "NIGHTVISION"
- 2007 - "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
- 2009 - "Around The World"
- 2011 - "DerezZed"
- 2013 - "INSTANT CRUSH"
- 2013 - "Lose Yourself to Dance"
- 2013 - "Get Lucky"
- 2017 - "I FEEL IT COMING"