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Daft Punk
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, combining house music, funk, disco, techno, Rock music, rock and synth-pop. They are regarded as one of the most influential acts in electronic dance music. Daft Punk formed after their previous group, the indie rock band Darlin', disbanded. They were managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter, the head of Ed Banger Records. Their debut album, ''Homework (Daft Punk album), Homework'', was released by Virgin Records in 1997 to positive reviews, backed by the singles "Around the World (Daft Punk song), Around the World" and "Da Funk". From 1999, Daft Punk assumed robot personas for public appearances, with helmets, outfits and gloves to disguise their identities. They made few media appearances. Daft Punk's second album, ''Discovery (Daft Punk album), Discovery'' (2001), earned acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo
Guillaume Emmanuel "Guy-Manuel" de Homem-Christo (; born 8 February 1974) is a French musician. He is known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bangalter. He has produced several works from his now-defunct record label Crydamoure with label co-owner Éric Chedeville. Early life Guillaume Emmanuel de Homem-Christo was born on 8 February 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is the great-grandson of Portuguese poet , as well as the great-great-grandson of Portuguese military figure Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo, who was forced into exile in France in 1910. He was given a toy guitar and keyboard at around age 7. He was eventually given an electric guitar at age 14; he still uses a guitar when writing music.Bryan ReesmanDaft Punk interview mixonline.com. Retrieved on 6 March 2007. Career Homem-Christo met Thomas Bangalter when they attended the Lycée Carnot school in Paris in 1987. It was there that they discovered their mutu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homework (Daft Punk Album)
''Homework'' is the debut studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 20 January 1997 by Virgin Records and Soma Quality Recordings. It was released in the US on 25 March 1997. Daft Punk received attention from major labels after releasing several popular singles on Soma Quality Recordings, and signed to Virgin in 1996. Daft Punk initially planned to release the music as separate singles, but decided they had enough material for an album. The name ''Homework'' relates to "the fact that we made the record at home, very cheaply, very quickly, and spontaneously, trying to do cool stuff". ''Homework'' charted in 14 countries, reaching number 3 on the French Albums Chart, number 150 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and number 8 on the UK Albums Chart. " Da Funk" and " Around the World" became U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Dance/Club Play number-one singles, and "Around the World" reached number 61 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. By February 2001, ''Homework'' had s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Da Funk
"Da Funk" is an instrumental track by French electronic music duo Daft Punk, initially released as a 12-inch single in May 1995 by Soma and Virgin and later included on their debut album, ''Homework'' (1997). Prior to its inclusion on the album, "Da Funk" received little attention and was limited to 2,000 copies. The song and its accompanying music video directed by Spike Jonze are considered classics of 1990s house music. It went on to sell 30,000 copies in 1997. A reversed clip of the song was also released on ''Homework'' as "Funk Ad", which is the final track on the album. Daft Punk produced "Da Funk" after listening to American G-funk records: the bass was composed using a Roland TB-303 synthesizer. A siren was originally going to be the riff before later being replaced to reflect the style the duo were going for. They wanted to make a song in the style similar to that of gangsta rap and electro. Bangalter also stated that the song's melody is meant to be reminiscent of It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daft Punk Discography
French electronic music duo Daft Punk released four studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, one soundtrack album, five remix albums, two video albums, twenty-two singles and nineteen music videos. Group members Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo met in 1987 while studying at the Lycée Carnot secondary school. They subsequently recorded several demo tracks together, forming Daft Punk in 1993. Their debut single "The New Wave" was released the following year on the Soma Quality Recordings label. Daft Punk first found commercial success with the release of their second single " Da Funk", which peaked at number seven in France and topped the United States ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chart.Peak chart positions for singles on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the United States: * All except "Lose Yourself to Dance": * "Lose Yourself to Dance": After signing to Virgin Records, the duo released their debut studio album ''Homework'' in January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Winter
Pedro Winter (born Pierre Winter; 21 April 1975), also known by the stage name Busy P, is a French record producer, DJ, record label owner, and former artist manager. He was the manager of Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008,Daft Punk Are Back in the Studio inthemix.com. Retrieved on 28 May 2008. and in 2003 founded the electronic music label Ed Banger Records, in which he signed artists like , Breakbot, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery (Daft Punk Album)
''Discovery'' is the second studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 12 March 2001 by Virgin Records. It marked a shift from the Chicago house of their first album, ''Homework (Daft Punk album), Homework'' (1997), to a house style more heavily inspired by disco, post-disco, garage house, and Contemporary R&B, R&B. Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk described ''Discovery'' as an exploration of song structures, musical forms and childhood nostalgia, compared to the "raw" electronic music of ''Homework.'' ''Discovery'' was recorded at Bangalter's home in Paris between 1998 and 2000. It features extensive Sampling (music), sampling; some samples are from older records, while others were created by Daft Punk. The electronic musicians Romanthony, Todd Edwards, and DJ Sneak collaborated on some tracks. For the music videos, Daft Punk developed a concept involving the merging of science fiction with the entertainment industry. Inspired by their childhood love for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Around The World (Daft Punk Song)
"Around the World" is a song by French electronic music duo Daft Punk. It was written by the duo and released in April 1997 by Virgin as the second single from their debut studio album, ''Homework'' (1997). The song became a major club hit globally and reached number one on the dance charts in Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It also peaked at number one in Iceland and Italy. The song's lyrics solely consist of the words "around the world", repeated on loop for a total of 144 times in the album version. The music video was directed by Michel Gondry and choreographed by Blanca Li. In 2011, ''NME'' placed it at number 21 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years", and in 2025, ''Billboard'' magazine ranked it among "The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time". Composition The key hook is a steady bassline and a robotic voice singing "around the world" in continuous chains. Daft Punk recalled that the song "was like making a Chic record with a talk box an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records (sometimes referred to as Ed Rec) is a French electronic music record label founded by Pedro Winter in 2003 as a division of Headbangers Entertainment. It focuses on house music, particularly French house, as well as alternative dance, electro (music), electro, hip hop music, hip hop, nu disco, and synthpop, among other styles. The label is home to French acts Justice (band), Justice, Sebastian (French musician), SebastiAn, Breakbot, Cassius (band), Cassius, DJ Mehdi, Mr. Oizo, Uffie, Myd (musician), Myd, Krazy Baldhead, Mr. Flash, So Me, Feadz, and Winter himself under the alias Busy P. Most videos and album art for Ed Banger releases are coordinated by So Me. History The label enjoyed a dramatic rise in fame in early 2007 when a number of the artists signed to its roster found mainstream success, most notably French electronic group Justice (band), Justice, whose rework of "Never Be Alone" by now defunct electro-rock band Simian (band), Simian, was a success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Dance Music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally produced for gapless playback, playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix, by segueing from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. Since its inception EDM has expanded to include a wide range of subgenres. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of Rave music, raving, pirate radio, Party crews, underground festivals, and an upsurge of interest in club culture, EDM achieved mainstream popularity in Europe. However, rave culture was not as broadly popular in the United States; it was not typically seen outside of the regional scenes in New York City, Florida, the Midwest, and California. Alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic music, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New wave music, new wave movement of the late 1970s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
