The ‘Even Further’ festival would come to be known as Daft Punks’s first official US performance almost a decade before kicking off 2006’s Coachella with their ‘Alive’ tour, and over a year before their 1997 debut album ‘Homework’. While fans would become used to, and even expect, the spectacle, grandeur and ‘senses’ enveloping performances that would catapult Daft Punk into the world’s collective conscience and define them as groundbreaking, genera transcending artist’s, this small Wisconsin festival would find them in a plain tent with small light show and well designed sound system.
Daft Punk accept the award for record
of the year for "Get Lucky" at the 56th
annual Grammy Awards in 2014.
Speaking in 2007, De Homem-Christo said, “We were 20-year-old kids, and I thought it was really one of the best festivals we’d done. It wasn’t huge, but it was in the woods, in nature, really outside the city. Techno music was known in Chicago and Detroit, but it wasn’t as big as it is now. It felt like a special moment; we have great memories of it. Even now, people go on YouTube to get videos from that night; it was true energy.”
Guy -Manuel de Homem-Christo and
Thomas Bengalter
Last week Daft Punk broke up, announcing the split in an 8 minute video lifted from their 2006 film Electroma entitled ‘Epilogue’. When asked, their longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the dissolution, but wouldn’t provide any explanation or comments.
Daft Punk followed up the success of the landmark ‘Homework’, with 2001’s ‘Discovery’. By this time the iconic ‘robot’ suits were on full display and would become their trademark as they released their third album 2005’s ‘Human After All’ and the subsequent ‘Alive 2007’.
2013 saw Daft Punk take their place back atop the pyramid with ‘Random Access Memories’. The lead single ‘Get Lucky’ would sell millions of copies and go on to win two Grammys. The album itself would win a further three Grammys, including album of the year.
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WRITTEN AND EDITED BY Silek
Very sad news for a fan like me, I grew up with them: when I was doing my homeworks (pun intended) I was listening to them, when I was making a video game I was listening to them, when I am doing 3D renders I am listening to them (and I will still do, of course).
As a French I will just say adieu, et merci pour tout.