Throwback: Daft Punk-Around The World

DaftPunkHomework

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Daft Punk’s “Around The World” made them official leaders of the French house movement of the ’90’s and introduced them to American club music fans. The duo said making the song “was like making a Chic record with a talk box and just playing the bass on the synthesizer.” The song was a worldwide hit in the clubs and the Michel Gondry-directed video was just as infectious with its uses of dancers, lights and staircases.Their debut album, Homework is credited as being one of the albums to bring house music back to the mainstream before the rise of the EDM movement in the 2000s. Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, 2013’s Random Access Memories took home 5 Grammy’s lead by the success of the single, “Get Lucky.” The documentary, Daft Punk:Unchained will have a release date by the end of 2015.




Daft Punk Unchained Trailer

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Unchained is a documentary about Daft Punk’s rise in the music industry. The French version of the film came out in June and the English version will debut by the end of the year. Pharrell and Kanye West appear in the film and talk about the duo’s influence on dance music.




Pharrell Williams-Gust Of Wind (Teaser)

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Pharrell Williams’s teaser for his “Gust Of Wind” video looks like another interesting treatment unfolding and making Girl that much more epic.




Daft Punk-Computerized Feat Jay-Z

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A collaboration between Jay-Z and Daft Punk called “Computerized” surfaced today. The song seems dated since Jay mentions a Blackberry but no more information is available about it. Some people say that Kanye West helped make the song a reality and it’s available for download.