Daft Punk

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Daft Punk was a French duo of Thomas Bangalter (1975) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), formed in 1993 in Paris. With albums such as Homework (1997) and Discovery (2001) they helped to make French house big. Their work with film began with Interstella 5555 (2003), an animated film set to the music of Discovery. In 2006 they directed the experimental film Electroma themselves. For Tron: Legacy (2010) they wrote a full film score. It was recorded with an 85-piece orchestra at AIR Lyndhurst in London. Joseph Trapanese orchestrated and worked with the duo for two years. Synthesizer arpeggios and strings are closely interwoven in it. In the film they appear themselves, with their helmets, in the club End of Line. In 2021 the duo stopped.

Listening

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  One More Time · Daft Punk, 2003
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  Overture · Daft Punk, 2010
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  End of Line · Daft Punk, 2010
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  Around the World · Daft Punk, 1997
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  Derezzed · Daft Punk, 2010

Discography

Studio albums

• 1997Homework
• 2001Discovery
• 2005Human After All
• 2010TRON: Legacy (soundtrack)
• 2013Random Access Memories

Other work

• 2003Interstella 5555
• 2006Daft Punk's Electroma

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map
• Mixtape 8: Electronic Music^NL Reader
• Mixtape 9: The Instrument^NL Reader
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 5^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• French house GenreIn France, producers such as Daft Punk, Cassius and Étienne de Crécy made French house from the mid-1990s: house tracks with filters and samples from old disco and funk.
• Industrial and electronic texture scores GenreIn 2010 the French duo Daft Punk gave Tron: Legacy a mixture of orchestra and electronics.

See also

• Human After All
• Random Access Memories
• Synthwave-revival
• Pop song, rock and compilation score
• Industrial and electronic texture scores
• Nu-disco