New 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.
It all started on Wednesday 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 duo formed in 1993 by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
According to figures shared on Twitter by fans, the concert on Twitch began to air at “2:22 pm Pacific Time”, or 22:22 GMT, on 02/22/2022, triggering a cascade of messages and rumors on 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 coup Tuesday on social networks, the duo also released a luxury box for the 25th anniversary of their first album “Homework”, in 1997. disc includes their first hit “Around the world”, which gave them international notoriety.
Significant separation
On February 22, 2021, a shock wave shook the music planet: in an enigmatic video broadcast on social networks, soberly titled “Epilogue”, Daft Punk 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 music. 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 essential song “Get Lucky”, as well as outstanding stage performances.
The absence of concerts of the duo for 14 years was coupled with a strategy of media silence from their beginnings: we do not officially know their faces, hidden under a robot mask.