Daft Punk, who brought us some of the most influential dance tracks of all time, have announced their retirement. Kathryn Frazier, the band’s longtime publicist, confirmed the split after they broke the news in a video titled “Epilogue”.
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the French electronic music duo, formed Daft Punk in Paris in 1993. Widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in dance music history, they achieved popularity and brought the French underground house scene into the charts with hits like “One More Time”, “Da Funk” and “Around The World”. Their singles “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” cemented them as global superstars.
The duo were famously publicity-shy, and were seldom seen in public without their robot headgear. They used processed, computerised vocals on almost all of their biggest hits.
The duo, twenty years into their career, had a massive hit with “Get Lucky,” The lead single of their 2013 album Random Access Memories which earned Daft Punk three Grammys, including Album of the Year. “Get Lucky” won two Grammys for the duo and guests Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams.
Watch their farewell video below
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