Vinyl editions of Homework and Alive ’97 are out 4/15.
Watch the stream below.Ġ2 “Revolution 909” (Roger Sanchez & Junior Sanchez Remix)Ġ3 “Around The World” (Tee’s Frozen Sun Mix)ġ1 “Around The World” (Original Lead Only)ġ5 “Revolution 909:” (Revolution A Capella)
The Twitch stream comes in tandem with another surprise announcement that Daft Punk’s landmark debut album is getting a digital deluxe box set featuring 15 remixes from the original Homework (nine tracks were previously unreleased on streaming platforms): Masters At Work, DJ Sneak, Todd Terry, Motorbass, Slam, Ian Pooley, I:Cube, and Roger Sanchez & Junior Sanchez. The group’s live album, Alive 1997, was also recorded during this tour.'. The set was part of the duo’s Daftendirektour concert tour, which would later be recorded into Daft Punk’s live album, Alive ’97. Some ideas take time, but some just take a few weeks, so we’ll see.In honor of Daft Punk’s 1997 debut album Homework turning 25, Twitch has launched a stream - starting at 2:22 PT - of the electronic pioneers’ Decemconcert at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles. It is challenging to get back in the studio and work with ideas we haven’t expressed before. “That’s what we felt about the film and this tour. “The cool thing is that we’re always trying to do something that hasn’t been done, or ultimately, that we aren’t doing ourselves yet,” Bangalter says. For another, the pair won’t put a timetable on when it will play more shows or return to the studio to begin work on a fourth album. For one, despite the overwhelming visual aspect of the recent tour, there will not be a live DVD to accompany “Alive 2007.” (“That’s the way we want to leave it right now,” Bangalter says). Still, amid Daft Punk mania, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo are being careful to retain the mystique they’ve worked so hard to build. Alive 1997 served as the group’s second release of 2001, coming on the heels of the critically acclaimed album, Discovery, which spawned the 1 dance/club hit, One More Time. screenings will roll out through late September, and Vice will release it in January on DVD. Issued in 2001, Alive 1997 is comprised of 45 minutes of non-stop live mixing that showcases Daft Punk’s unique and influential DJ style.
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The movie is something of a cult favorite in France, where it has been playing to packed midnight screenings, and just premiered Aug. In it, two crew members fill the roles Bangalter and partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo play onstage. “That is really the concept of this tour, which was not the concept of the stuff we were doing 10 years ago.”īuzz is also growing for the film “Electroma,” an homage to low-budget science-fiction movies that builds on the robot motif. “The thing we focused on is what you get out of the show: an intense experience of music, lights and robots, with a thin line between fiction and reality,” Daft Punk principal Thomas Bangalter tells Billboard. “The philosophy behind it, in as far as the show goes, was to tease the marketplaces and leave people wanting more.” We really underplayed,” the group’s agent, John Pleeter of CAA, tells Billboard. “We easily could have done multiples in some of these markets. Daft Punk will close out the year with performances at Vegoose in Las Vegas (Oct. 9 show at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.ĭaft Punk played its first show in nine years at the 2006 Coachella Festival, and positive word-of-mouth in its wake was a huge contributing factor to the success of its recent North American tour.īased on Billboard estimates, the brief run grossed in the neighborhood of $3 million and played to more than 60,000 fans. Released: Nov 2007 Label: Daft Life Ltd./ADA France Can a live album ever get across the staggering brilliance of an utterly mind-blowing spectacle Daft Punks Pyramid tour, certainly the finest electronic/dance show of all time, is arguably one of the best. The tour version of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” will be issued as a single from the live set, and a video, directed by Oliver Gondry, will feature footage shot by fans during an Aug. The album will be available as a single-disc set or a two-disc edition that features the encore and a 50-page book. As first reported here earlier this month, Daft Punk’s June 14, 2007, show in its Paris hometown forms the basis of “Daft Punk Alive 2007,” due Nov.