leaks suggest their fifth album is arriving this year. supposedly the release date is May 26th and it will be a 12 track album with features including DJ Sneak, Junior Sanchez and Cassius.
excited for what they’ll be doing, I hope we get a killer lead single like Get Lucky.
Posted by: BridgeCow 5th February 2020, 09:34 AM
Oh my god
Posted by: awardinary 5th February 2020, 09:58 AM
PLEASE!
Posted by: Bjork 5th February 2020, 10:30 AM
finally!!!!!!!!!! cannot even remember when Random access memories was released, 2013? seems like forever
Posted by: Chez Wombat 5th February 2020, 10:48 AM
This news has made my year.
Posted by: gavindeejay 5th February 2020, 12:38 PM
OMG! I'm really looking forward to this! Let's hope the lead single is everything just like 'One More Time' and 'Get Lucky' were!
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th February 2020, 01:22 PM
DJ Sneak (who worked on Digital Love) has said the leaks are fake.
And the person who supposedly "leaked' it has also confirmed that he faked them.
Posted by: jszmiles 5th February 2020, 02:17 PM
I am really looking forward to hear this, but with "One More Time" direction over "Get Lucky" path
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th February 2020, 02:21 PM
Posted by: Chez Wombat 5th February 2020, 05:42 PM
:''''(
I guess 2026 it is then.
Posted by: awardinary 5th February 2020, 05:56 PM
Posted by: dandy* 5th February 2020, 07:12 PM
I just got excited and deflated in the space of a page. It was like Mafia all over again.
Posted by: Bré 5th February 2020, 08:27 PM
Quarterly reminder that leaked tracklists are always fake x
Posted by: Bjork 5th February 2020, 10:18 PM
^only Lana's, she really needs better passwords
Posted by: BridgeCow 6th February 2020, 06:50 PM
Grrrrr
Posted by: awardinary 6th February 2020, 10:36 PM
Can this thread be locked until such a time as some actual news is released... each time I open this thread to read a new post I’m instantly disappointed.
Posted by: Cqmerqn 6th February 2020, 10:39 PM
Don’t open it then hun
Posted by: Mart!n 7th February 2020, 07:04 PM
I'm deflated.
Posted by: gavindeejay 27th April 2020, 04:41 PM
New Daft Punk music confirmed with a film score on the way. Director Dario Argento revealed the French duo are writing the soundtrack to his next film in a new interview
A Pitchfork article to flesh things out a bit more...
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Daft Punk Break Up The legendary dance duo have called it quits 28 years after forming in Paris By Jazz Monroe February 22, 2021
Daft Punk, the Parisian duo responsible for some of the most popular dance and pop songs ever made, have split. They broke the news with an 8-minute video titled “Epilogue,” excerpted from their 2006 film Electroma. Asked if Daft Punk were no more, their longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the news to Pitchfork but gave no reason for the breakup.
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo formed Daft Punk in Paris in 1993, emerging from and helping to define the French touch style of house music. Their debut album, 1997’s Homework, was a dance music landmark, featuring classic singles “Around the World” and “Da Funk.” By the release of its follow-up, Discovery, in 2001, the duo had taken to making public appearances in the robot outfits that became their trademark. The singles “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” cemented them as global superstars. Their imprint in the popular imagination continued to deepen in subsequent years, with records including third album Human After All, live LP Alive 2007, and the Tron: Legacy soundtrack album.
Twenty years into their career, Daft Punk stepped up once more with “Get Lucky,” the lead single of their 2013 album Random Access Memory. The ubiquitous single sold millions of copies around the world and won two Grammys for the duo and guests Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams. The album, which is their last to date, led to a spectacular Coachella headline set that encapsulated their magic and mythology. “When you know how a magic trick is done, it's so depressing,” Bangalter told Pitchfork in a 2013 cover story. “We focus on the illusion because giving away how it’s done instantly shuts down the sense of excitement and innocence.”
The album earned Daft Punk three further Grammys, including Album of the Year. The year of its release, they were also credited with co-production on several tracks from Kanye West’s Yeezus. They would go on to collaborate with the Weeknd on the 2016 single “Starboy”—Daft Punk‘s first Billboard singles chart topper—as well as “I Feel It Coming.”
sadness but at least they went with a high (Get Lucky)
Posted by: dan :: G 22nd February 2021, 03:50 PM
ah no so much for 2021 being the year they were finally due another release. a sad day for dance music.
(title edit: adding context in subtitle so people don't assume it's a new song of theirs)
Posted by: Chez Wombat 22nd February 2021, 04:13 PM
This day just keeps getting worse, I mean I kind of sensed it as there was literally nothing on the horizon for eight years, but still, a wonderful act much missed.
Posted by: dandy* 22nd February 2021, 04:26 PM
Gah! That moment when you click from the home screen thinking there's new music and find this instead
Posted by: Rooney 22nd February 2021, 04:56 PM
So disappointing! They are one of the only acts in the world I really wanted to see live and were on a bucketlist. I was hoping they would do a few dates after RAM in Europe but from what it sounds like, they could never get the venue for the experience.
Posted by: ElevenSnake 22nd February 2021, 06:06 PM
Yes I read today that they had sadly split up, if that is the case I wish 'Epilogue' had of been a final song from them before they split up though.
Posted by: awardinary 22nd February 2021, 06:38 PM
Truly saddened by this announcement. 28 years though is impressive by any standard, and I’ve been reading a flood of tributes on twitter by well respected artists of the dance industry. They were indeed revolutionary with their sound and they will be missed. I was hoping that a new release was on the horizon but will have to make do with listening to their discography again which I’m doing now as I listen to Discovery which in fact was one of my first CD’s I purchased in Virgin Megastore way back when.
Posted by: Alberto! 22nd February 2021, 07:16 PM
Not surprised as they've been quiet for years now but I did hope they would release one last album, even if they wanted to end it.
Posted by: Rooney 22nd February 2021, 07:27 PM
I forgot just how great Random Access Memories is, at least they went out on a high. Touch in the eplilogue was always one of my favourite songs off the album. I was really hoping for another album! Maybe they just couldn't make the music they wanted to and went their seperate ways.
Posted by: dandy* 22nd February 2021, 07:35 PM
I've been listening to their albums over the past month and they really are brilliant, even Human After All isn't as bad as it's made out to be but the other three are absolute classics.
Posted by: Doctor Blind 22nd February 2021, 08:39 PM
Yeah this is a very sad but inevitable moment, although like others have said I certainly didn't expect any new music last decade and was pleasantly surprised by Random Access Memories when that came out and gave them their first and only UK #1 single. They have gone out on a high and not just faded out and I admire how they approached their career. I don't think you'd have ever got to see them Rooney - their last gig was in 2006/7 I think and they hated touring. They are a band that mean a lot to me though, I vividly remember buying Discovery during the summer of 2001 as it was the first album that I spent my pocket money on (£13.99 I think it was??), then spending almost the whole summer holiday break with my family wearing out the CD player that I had playing the album out. Such an iconic album and so many fond memories attached to that period of my life too- can't believe that it is 20 years ago!
I do remember hearing and loving “Around The World” and “Da Funk” on the radio in the late 90s and of course Stardust's “Music Sounds Better With You” in 98 (which Bangalter produced) but it was only after “One More Time” was hammered by Radio 1 in late 2000, the follow-up singles convinced me to get Discovery, and only then that I properly took notice and delved into their discography to became a huge fan.
They will be definitely be sorely missed.
Posted by: Mart!n 22nd February 2021, 09:11 PM
I really thought they would have banged out one last single before announcing the split, will be sadly missed. Get Lucky will remain a CLASIC in my eyes
Posted by: Stu1985 22nd February 2021, 10:05 PM
Each of their albums are masterpieces. I have played Alive 2007 so much that I remember the audience noises on each track, wishing I had been there myself, it must have been such a great experience.
One More Time will always be a defining track for my love of dance music.
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 22nd February 2021, 10:26 PM
I have to admit, it does seem at this point (and has done for many years) like they're a band on permanent hiatus that we might get something from one day if we're lucky.
Posted by: Rooney 22nd February 2021, 10:30 PM
QUOTE(Doctor Blind @ Feb 22 2021, 08:39 PM)
Yeah this is a very sad but inevitable moment, although like others have said I certainly didn't expect any new music last decade and was pleasantly surprised by Random Access Memories when that came out and gave them their first and only UK #1 single. They have gone out on a high and not just faded out and I admire how they approached their career. I don't think you'd have ever got to see them Rooney - their last gig was in 2006/7 I think and they hated touring. They are a band that mean a lot to me though, I vividly remember buying Discovery during the summer of 2001 as it was the first album that I spent my pocket money on (£13.99 I think it was??), then spending almost the whole summer holiday break with my family wearing out the CD player that I had playing the album out. Such an iconic album and so many fond memories attached to that period of my life too- can't believe that it is 20 years ago!
I do remember hearing and loving “Around The World” and “Da Funk” on the radio in the late 90s and of course Stardust's “Music Sounds Better With You” in 98 (which Bangalter produced) but it was only after “One More Time” was hammered by Radio 1 in late 2000, the follow-up singles convinced me to get Discovery, and only then that I properly took notice and delved into their discography to became a huge fan.
They will be definitely be sorely missed.
I had a chance to go to their Alive tour in 2007 at Wireless, that's what kicks me! I really did think they would do a few one off gigs after Random Access Memories, probably a show in the UK, Australia, an appearance at Coachella and then maybe a couple in Europe too. But they really didn't like touring or they wanted a specific venue which probably would have been a nightmare to get licensed. But they are truly one of the greats of dance music.
Posted by: gooddelta 22nd February 2021, 10:52 PM
Very sad to hear this. Discovery is such a legendary album, I bought it off the back of Aerodynamic (I have that on CD single too, but it must have been an import as it didn't chart here, I wonder why it wouldn't have got an official release!?!).
Obviously I already loved One More Time and was so blown away by the album, and its influence has been everywhere on music since, as well as being the soundbed for so many TV shows etc.
Random Access Memories was wonderful too and Get Lucky was one of the all-time best comeback singles. Was really hoping they'd do one more album and I'm sure it could have been big for them too, assuming it was a commercial sound.
Posted by: SevenSeize 23rd February 2021, 02:42 AM
man
i'll just go shed some tears and stick Discovery on repeat then~
Posted by: All★bySmashMouth 23rd February 2021, 06:00 AM
Doesn't seem like the final time ever I think. It's a bit sudden.
perhaps someone would like to host a Daft Punk singles rate?
besides the obvious picks, Instant Crush and Digital Love are very much worth of praise too.
Posted by: awardinary 23rd February 2021, 01:32 PM
QUOTE(dan :: G @ Feb 23 2021, 01:31 PM)
perhaps someone would like to host a Daft Punk singles rate?
besides the obvious picks, Instant Crush and Digital Love are very much worth of praise too.
Oh absolutely Dan what a great idea! Can we also include their other “projects” too just to make it a bit more interesting and representative of their great sound.
Posted by: Colm 23rd February 2021, 01:37 PM
QUOTE(awardinary @ Feb 23 2021, 01:27 PM)
Wow this is great, I’m listening now!
Don’t forget about the likes of Stardust and Spacedust too!
Stardust was Thomas Bangalter and two other guys.
Posted by: awardinary 23rd February 2021, 01:38 PM
Yeah I realised I’d made a mistake about Spacedust when I checked on Wikipedia. I don’t know how I got that idea from.
Posted by: Colm 23rd February 2021, 01:41 PM
I could have put 10 Kylie tracks on it. Her videos looked like theirs too.
Posted by: dan :: G 23rd February 2021, 05:40 PM
OCC: Top 10 selling Daft Punk songs.
1 GET LUCKY DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS 1 (2.25m) 2 STARBOY WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK 2 (1.9m) 3 I FEEL IT COMING WEEKND FT DAFT PUNK 9 (1.11m) 4 ONE MORE TIME DAFT PUNK 2 (806k) 5 AROUND THE WORLD DAFT PUNK 5 (478k) 6 HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER DAFT PUNK 25 7 LOSE YOURSELF TO DANCE DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS 49 8 DA FUNK DAFT PUNK 7 9 DIGITAL LOVE DAFT PUNK 14 10 INSTANT CRUSH DAFT PUNK/JULIAN CASABLANCAS N/A
Posted by: lewistgreen 23rd February 2021, 06:28 PM
Instant Crush being in there is most pleasantly surprising
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 23rd February 2021, 07:46 PM
'Instant Crush' was easily the best thing from that album, would have made such a better second single than 'Lose Yourself to Dance'.
Posted by: Hadji 23rd February 2021, 08:33 PM
I’m hoping for another greatest hits collection with every single one of their hits
Posted by: Bjork 23rd February 2021, 08:36 PM
joining the love for Instant Crash <3 agree that it should have been the 2nd single instead of Love Yourself
Natalie Imbruglia did a pretty good cover of it
Posted by: Liam.k. 23rd February 2021, 08:51 PM
QUOTE(Bjork @ Feb 23 2021, 08:36 PM)
joining the love for Instant Crash <3 agree that it should have been the 2nd single instead of Love Yourself
Natalie Imbruglia did a pretty good cover of it
Yes I love Natalie's cover! Both versions are great and I have to agree Daft Punk should have released theirs as the follow up to 'Get Lucky'. I can see the logic of thinking another Pharrell feature would be a hit but it was just an inferior song that felt too similar.
I don't know if 'Instant Crush' would have been that big of a hit but it would definitely have been a better choice.
Posted by: dan :: G 23rd February 2021, 08:56 PM
QUOTE(Liam.k. @ Feb 23 2021, 08:51 PM)
I don't know if 'Instant Crush' would have been that big of a hit but it would definitely have been a better choice.
I don't think it'd have done much (if any) better in the UK singles chart at the time, but it's been a clear cult hit over time worldwide - 300m Spotify and 424m YT – in comparison LYTD is only on 207m Spotify and 164m YT.
Posted by: Colm 23rd February 2021, 08:59 PM
QUOTE(Tawdry Hepburn @ Feb 23 2021, 07:46 PM)
'Instant Crush' was easily the best thing from that album, would have made such a better second single than 'Lose Yourself to Dance'.
Lose Yourself to Dance was awful.
Motherboard was my favourite song on the album. The arpeggios after the breakdown blow my mind.
Posted by: Liam.k. 23rd February 2021, 08:59 PM
QUOTE(dan :: G @ Feb 23 2021, 08:56 PM)
I don't think it'd have done much (if any) better in the UK singles chart at the time, but it's been a clear cult hit over time worldwide - 300m Spotify and 424m YT – in comparison LYTD is only on 207m Spotify and 164m YT.
Yeah, I think in the long term it would have been better to look back on the era and think "'Instant Crush' might have flopped but at least it was a great single" rather than "'Lose Yourself to Dance' flopped and it was clearly an attempt to recreate the success of 'Get Lucky'".
Posted by: Bré 24th February 2021, 12:20 AM
This is sad, a shame that they didn't at leeast put out a final single, feels rather anticlimactic that they return after disappearing for nearly a decade, just to announce that they've split.
Posted by: Colm 24th February 2021, 03:22 PM
In my Best of Daft Punk I don't include One More Time or Get Lucky.
Posted by: Bjork 24th February 2021, 03:38 PM
^Not gonna buy it then but don't think their Best Of, which they released mid 90s, was very good or complete
Posted by: Doctor Blind 25th February 2021, 12:52 AM
QUOTE(Colm @ Feb 24 2021, 03:22 PM)
In my Best of Daft Punk I don't include One More Time or Get Lucky.
In my Best of Colm posts on BuzzJack I don't include this post.
Posted by: Colm 25th February 2021, 06:22 AM
I never liked One More Time. It and Too Long are the weakest songs on Discovery, for me.
Get Lucky was great for about 3 weeks, then Pharrell's voice started to grate. I'd love a version with just the robot voices.
Posted by: Bjork 25th February 2021, 10:49 AM
oh I just remember Daughter did this amazing and very subtle version of Get Lucky really original and unexpected could listen to this on a loop for ages, Elena's voice is so haunting and the total opposite of Pharrell
Posted by: lewistgreen 27th February 2021, 10:59 AM
Thew news did spur on some minimal chart impact:
Dance Album Chart #3 - Discovery (#30 on Downloads) #6 - Homework (#56 on Downloads, #95 on Sales) #9 - Human After All #12 - Alive 2007 #14 - Musique Vol. 1 #17 - Alive 1997
Dance Singles Chart #36 - One More Time (#97 on Downloads) #37 - Get Lucky
Download Album Chart #69 - Random Access Memories (#70 on Sales, #80 on Physical) [guess this isn't classed as Dance for the OCC ]
Posted by: Liam.k. 9th March 2021, 05:57 PM
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd February 2022, 09:47 PM
Posted by: awardinary 22nd February 2022, 09:52 PM
Don’t get excited, they’re just marking the 1 year anniversary of their split.
Posted by: Daan 22nd February 2022, 09:53 PM
25th anniversary rerelease of Homework coming up I presume as that’s its album cover art. (edit oh wait I’m mistaken, its just their logo which happens to be very similar to that cover art but not exactly. but it is 25 years approx since that album release)
or as Wardy says could be nothing more than marking the anniversary of the split announcement.
I wouldn’t get hopes up for a comeback slash new material.
Posted by: Colm 22nd February 2022, 10:16 PM
A new proper best of. On vinyl.
Posted by: awardinary 22nd February 2022, 10:38 PM
Ok I take it back, there is something planned;
Posted by: lewistgreen 22nd February 2022, 11:38 PM
I had posted somewhere on this site recently that vinyl releases were coming for their albums in April so that's what that'll be
Posted by: Cow Cow 22nd February 2022, 11:57 PM
Good morning.
Posted by: dandy* 23rd February 2022, 07:04 AM
Remains their best album for me
Posted by: Doctor Blind 23rd February 2022, 07:50 AM
WDPK 83.7: The sound of tomorrow, the music of today, brings you exclusively Daft Punk's Homework!
Just dug out my CD of Homework. <3
I think I will always prefer Discovery but that was the one that I bought first, and was the first album that I ever bought with my own money - fond memories of spending the family holiday that summer of 2001 wearing out the CD until my Mum and Dad were sick of hearing it.
Going back to Homework I think “Revolution 909” was the track that hooked me in many years later, although I obviously remember loving “Da Funk” and “Around The World” at the time- both had huge Radio 1 play IIRC. “Da Funk” actually went into the chart at #7 exactly 25 years ago: http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/1997/UK%20Charts%201997.02.22.pdf
I missed the stream as I was working. : (
But I've found their essential mix from March 1997
Posted by: Bjork 23rd February 2022, 08:22 AM
is the link up for the vinyl?
Posted by: lewistgreen 23rd February 2022, 12:16 PM
Yes they're on various sites. Released 15th April
Posted by: Bjork 23rd February 2022, 01:53 PM
Yes it's finally up everywhere I see now
Posted by: lewistgreen 15th June 2022, 06:16 PM
What are they doing... maybe this is nothing but I thought they were done
Posted by: dandy* 15th June 2022, 06:32 PM
That’s the single cover for Revolution 909 so I doubt they would use it to promote something new
Posted by: dandy* 18th June 2022, 11:22 AM
…yep and it turns out this was about the Revolution 909 video being remastered and uploaded to their channel
Posted by: Jessie Where 18th June 2022, 01:32 PM
Troll masters.
Posted by: Skankhunt43 18th June 2022, 03:18 PM
I thought they split years ago? They had a brief revival in electropop 2013, worst year for music OF ALL TIME, and that was it. Theh should learn from the Spices or even All Saints on how to do an iconic split thag everyone talks about!!!
Posted by: Daan 18th June 2022, 04:40 PM
were you under a rock last year? their split was much talked about when it happened even despite the lack of any music from them for years.
This day just keeps getting worse, I mean I kind of sensed it as there was literally nothing on the horizon for eight years, but still, a wonderful act much missed.
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