Daft Punk
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in Paris in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They were best known for wearing robot masks in public as a way of concealing their identities. Their hits include "Around the World", "Harder Better Faster Stronger", "One More Time", "Get Lucky" and "Technologic". They announced their breakup in 2021.
Quotes
[edit]Thomas Bangalter
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- We didn't decide to become robots, There was an accident in our studio. We were working on our sampler, and at exactly 9:09 a.m. on September 9, 1999, it exploded. When we regained consciousness, we discovered that we had become robots.
- People are often afraid of things that sound new. Like robots.
- The idea was really having this desire for live drums, as well as questioning, really, why and what is the magic in samples? Why for the last 20 years have producers and musicians been extracting these little snippets of audio from vinyl records? What kind of magic did it contain?
- Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it’s not moving one inch, That’s not what artists are supposed to do.
- I almost consider the character of the robots like a Marina Abramović performance art installation that lasted for 20 years
- We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can. We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology.
- As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.
Lyrics
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Do it faster, makes us stronger
Discovery (2001)
[edit]- Work it harder, make it better
Do it faster, makes us stronger
More than ever, hour after hour
Work is never over
Random Access Memories (2013)
[edit]- Let the music in tonight
Just turn on the music
Let the music of your life
Give life back to music - There is a game of love
There is a game of love
This is a game of love
This is a game of love- "The Game of Love"
- I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the '50s, the sounds of the '60s, of the '70s, and then have a sound of the future. And I said, "Wait a second. I know the synthesizer. Why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?" And I didn't have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click. So, we put a click on the 24-track which then was synced to the Moog modular. I knew that it could be a sound of the future but I didn't realize how much the impact would be. My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio.
- Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being "correct," you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.
- "Giorgio by Moroder" (spoken by Giorgio Moroder)
- There are so many things that I don't understand
There's a world within me that I cannot explain
Many rooms to explore, but the doors look the same
I am lost, I can't even remember my name- "Within"
- He runs his scissors at the seam in the wall
He cannot break it down or else he would fall
One thousand lonely stars hiding in the cold
Take it, oh, I don't wanna sing anymore- "Instant Crush" (sung by Julian Casablancas)
- I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often
I know your life is speedin' and it isn't stoppin'
Here, take my shirt and just go ahead and wipe up all the
Sweat, sweat, sweat- "Lose Yourself to Dance" (sung by Pharrell Williams)
- Home, hold on, if love is the answer, you're home.
- Like the legend of the phoenix
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinnin'
The force from the beginnin'
We've come too far
To give up who we are
So let's raise the bar
And our cups to the stars
She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
She's up all night for good fun
I'm up all night to get lucky- "Get Lucky" (sung by Pharrell Williams)
- Remember, love's our only mission
This is a journey of the soul- "Beyond"
- Familiar faces I've never seen
Living the gold and the silver dream
Making me feel like I'm seventeen
And it's crystal clear that I don't ever want it to end- "Fragments of Time" (sung by Todd Edwards)
- If you lose your way tonight
That's how you know the magic's right- "Doin' It Right" (sung by Panda Bear)
- It's not right, it's not true, it's not right
It's not how we used to do- "Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo)" (sung by Julian Casablancas)
Quotes about Daft Punk
[edit]- Nineteen years on, every single aspect of Discovery has been pilfered time and time again, from the glossy production style to the sound of the drums. Every vocal in pop has that electronic effect on it, which I now know is called Auto-Tune. Daft Punk were incredibly prescient: play Discovery today and it sounds utterly contemporary.
- Sampling the traditional way gets frustrating fast: bad tuning, rigid tempos, weird textures that don’t bend. So we started recording our own source material — built for flexibility. It saves us 900 hours digging through crates. The downside? No more surprises. No more accidents. That spark of stumbling on a forgotten gem … gone. Daft Punk were the kings of that. They could turn half a second of groove into a global anthem.
