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Daft Punk are noted for the use of visual components combined with their songs, some of them related to music videos were directed by cult directors including Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry . The whole album Discovery also did the soundtrack to the animated film Interstella 5555 , co-produced by the group Leiji Matsumoto father of the famous Captain Harlock , eponymous protagonist of the Japanese cartoon 1978. The two musicians always appear dressed as robots : Bangalter explained that "there was an accident in our studio. We were working with the sampler and that, at exactly 9:09, 9 September 1999, exploded. When you regain consciousness, we discovered that we had become robots. "There are very few pictures depicting the faces of the two musicians. Today, Daft Punk are finishing the production of a film, Daft Punk's Electroma , which premiered at Cannes 2006. Everything you know the film is the plot synopsis: two robots (Daft Punk), we embark on an adventure that takes them to become human beings.
This probably means that the duo abandon the disguise by robots that made them famous, but nothing is certo.Il duo is considered one of the collaborations of all time in the electronic music, both in terms of sales volume for both the response of the critics. The name "Daft Punk" is derived from a review of the first working group in which military, Darlin, published in the British magazine Melody Maker, in which they were defined as "a bunch of silly beggars" ("a bunch of daft punk "). And then they made this appeal, which ironically became the pseudonym behind which is concealed the two. HISTORY
Their debut single was "The New Wave ", issued in a limited edition in 1994 by Soma Records. The following year they released their first hit single, " Da Funk, "which was later included on their debut album Homework ( 1997). Homework was seen as an innovative mix of techno, house , acid house and electro , and was soon recognized as one of the most influential albums of dance nineties. The most famous single from the album is undoubtedly " Around The World", also known for his very special video . In 2001 came the album Discovery, which marks a turning point in the group's sound toward a style synthpop .
The single One More Time was a great success in all the clubs in the world, and the subsequent individual and Digital Love Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger became equally famous. Even the song Face to Face came in first place in the rankings of the club despite U.S. had never been released as a single.
In an interview with "Remix Magazine Online," the group said that the name of the album "Discovery" is derived from a comparison they made with the discovery phase that is experienced in childhood, symbolizing their new playful attitude and open to the music. It should be noted that many tracks are in fact themes and sample taken from songs of the late seventies and early eighties (and should also be noted that for the same reason some have interpreted the title as "Very Hard", that is very influenced by disco).
In 2001 he was released Alive 1997, a live album with a 45-minute excerpt from 'Homework' tour Birmingham 1997.
In 2005 came out Human After All, an album of 45 minutes consisting of 9 tracks plus an intro, recorded in just 6 weeks. For the first time audiences and critics found themselves in an almost universally negative judge a work of Daft Punk, because hasty execution and repetition and brevity of the tracks. This has led many to be ironic about the album title "human after all." The single from the album were Robot Rock, Technologic and Human After All .
A collection of "greatest hits" version CD / DVD entitled Musique Vol 1 1993-2005 is released on April 4 2006, and is said to release this collection was an obvious choice to terminate the contract with Virgin . Were also shot new video Prime Time of Your Life and Robot Rock (Maximum Overdrive) .
Daft Punk participated in 2006 at the following festivals: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Pukkelpop, and Global Gathering Music Festival in SummerSonic Tokyo and Osaka . In 2007, ten years after the first album live out Alive 2007, production in which the two artists of the French electronic mash-up running live in an incredibly innovative with their most beautiful and popular pieces. The latter album found the piece that has been most successful Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger / Around the world.
Lille was European Capital of Culture 2004. A city rich in history and charm that has tried in recent years to get up off its image of being a bit past decades' gray. Lille is anything but gray and those who visit it will undoubtedly build a great experience.
Lille is the center of a metropolitan area which includes the towns of Roubaix and Tourcoing, with a population exceeding one million inhabitants.
Lille is also famous for its citadel, European monument to the art of defense. Four months after the entry in Lille troops of Louis XIV, Vauban's genius French military undertook the construction
the citadel to protect the city. This large complex is located in a swampy area that could be flooded if necessary. The skilful combination of brick and sandstone, the plant logic and the ability to meet the needs of the artillery, have made the masterpiece of the great engineer. His defensive strength was such that Marlborough and his allies the Dutch took them 62 days to enter the city and 48 others to submit the citadel itself. The high quality of costruzioneè evident in the gables, with allegorical sculptures of Port Royal, in the tympanum, rich picture of the arsenal and the vault of postieria Ste-Barbe. Many French people knew the death of Turenne's Bastion, which served as a place of execution during the world wars.
Lille's Old Town has experienced a real flourished since, in 1965, some people have realized that you were hiding behind the battered plaster wonderful seventeenth and eighteenth century buildings. The style of Lille, which has preserved magnificent monuments of the English period, owes its originality to the union of brick and carved stones.