New brilliance of the most famous electro duo in the world. A year, to the day, following the announcement of their separation, the French musicians of Daft Punk signed, Tuesday, February 22, their return… on social networks.
It all started in the followingnoon in California with an enigmatic post on Instagram and Twitter, before Daft Punk rebroadcast on the Twitch platform a live concert from December 1997 in Los Angeles, where we see the duo formed in 1993 by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
According to numbers shared on Twitter by fans, the concert on Twitch began airing at “2:22 pm Pacific Time”, or 22:22 GMT, on February 22, 2022, triggering a cascade of messages and rumors on a possible reformation of the helmeted duo, officially separated on February 22, 2021.
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The greatest ambassador of French electro
To mark this separation a year ago, to the day, and this stunt on Tuesday on social networks, the pioneers of the French Touch also released a luxury box for the 25e anniversary of their first album Homeworkin 1997. The record features their first hit Around the Worldwhich had given them international notoriety.
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On February 22, 2021, it was a shock wave on the music planet: by an enigmatic video posted on social networks, soberly titled Epilogue, Daft Punk had announced their separation. The video of just over 8 minutes showed the two members, in their traditional robot masks, advancing in a desert. After a few evocative signs of renunciation, one ended up triggering the self-destruction system of the other, which was pulverized.
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The duo was, since Homework, the greatest ambassador of French electro. An unbreakable status solidified with three other opuses with global success each time, Discovery (2001), Human After All (2005), Random Access Memories (2013) with the unmissable hit “Get Lucky”, as well as outstanding stage performances. The absence of concerts for 14 years was coupled with a strategy of media silence from their beginnings: we officially do not know their faces, hidden under a robot mask.