There is very little else in the world that excites me other than robotic house producers, and on Friday, March 2nd, they very well may have risen from the underworld to return with better music than we could ever handle.
Many assumed that after their latest Alive 2007 tour, the duo had called it quits amidst rumors that Thomas Bangalter was suffering hearing loss — a frequent occurrence amongst producers and DJs in the electronic dance music scene.
Earlier this year, Nile Rodgers (of Chic fame) gave the following quote to Rolling Stone and began one of the most intense rumor mill blazes I’ve seen in quite some time:
“The next time I set foot in Japan, my collaboration with Daft Punk would have started to hit people’s eardrums
If you know Daft Punk, you know they’re House — specifically French House, and that French House owes much of its development to funk music. Thankfully, Nile Rodgers has plenty of expertise in that area and has supposedly collaborated with the French duo on some interesting new material.
Then, nothing. Not for days, weeks, and months. There were constant rumors of them headlining festivals in Europe and Asia, and the ever-present denial of them returning to once again premier at the Coachella Music Festival back in California.
After countless festival flyers were released and fans turned away disappointed at the lack of robot overlords, many began to dismiss a possible return once and forever.
Then, on February 28th — the Daft Punk world was revived. They changed the image on their website http://www.daftpunk.com/ to a new image with a Columbia Records logo in the bottom right — confirming that they had indeed switched record labels.
And history was made again late Saturday night, on March 3rd, during a commercial break of Saturday Night Live when a brief 15 second video showed an animated Daft Punk logo and some very Nile Rodgers-esque House being played in the background.
Hopefully, there are more nuggets of wonderful music being disseminated as we speak — but use this as an opportunity to research their previous three albums: Homework, Discovery, and Human After All — as well as their official sound track to the TRON: Legacy movie.
