(New York) New coup de brilliance of the most famous electro duo in the world: exactly one year after the announcement of their separation, the French musicians of Daft Punk signed their return on Tuesday… on social networks.
Posted at 7:31 p.m.
It all started in the afternoon in California with an enigmatic publication on Instagram and Twitter, before Daft Punk rebroadcast on the Twitch platform a live concert from December 1997 in Los Angeles, where we see the tandem formed in 1993 by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
According to numbers shared on Twitter by fans, the concert on Twitch began streaming at “2:22 PM, Pacific Time”, or 22:22 GMT, on 02/22/2022, triggering a cascade of messages and rumors about a possible reformation of the helmeted duo, officially separated on February 22, 2021.
To mark this separation a year ago to the day, and this stunt on Tuesday on social networks, the pioneers of the French Touch also released a luxury box for the 25and anniversary of their first album Homeworkin 1997. The record features their first hit around the worldwhich had given them international notoriety.
On February 22, 2021, it was a shock wave on the music planet: by an enigmatic video posted on social networks, soberly titled “Epilogue”, Daft Punk had announced its separation. The video of a little more than 8 minutes showed the two members, under their traditional masks of robots, advancing in a desert. After a few evocative signs of renunciation, one ended up triggering the self-destruction system of the other, which was pulverized.
The duo was since Homework the greatest ambassador of French electro. An unbreakable status solidified with three other opuses with global success each time, Discovery (2001), Human After All (2005), Random Access Memories (2013) with the must-have hit Get Luckyas well as outstanding stage performances.
The absence of concerts for 14 years was coupled with a strategy of media silence from their beginnings: we officially do not know their faces, hidden under a robot mask.