(Paris) For the 10th anniversary of random access memoriesmegahit album get luckyDaft Punk is celebrated with an unreleased 2013 unveiled Thursday at the Parisian museum of the Center Pompidou, where electro changed their lives in 1992.
This cultural site dedicated to modern and contemporary art is a milestone in the history of the helmeted duo, separated since 2021. It was in Beaubourg, another name of the place, that electro caught up with them on November 10, 1992.
“The first time we went to a rave was on the rooftops of Beaubourg. We discover a different music and we also discover an energy, with people dancing to songs they don’t know,” recalls Thomas Bangalter, one of the two Dafts, in the podcast. Other radio other culture in 2009. “We think (there is) something to do with electronic music”.
That evening, Bangalter will soon be 18 years old, his accomplice Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo has been this age since the beginning of the year. They formed in 1993 under the name Daft Punk. The expression “Punk Idiot” comes from a bad review of a British magazine, Melody Maker, after their musical birth in a guitar group, Darlin’, quickly abandoned.
Their first album Homework (Homeworkconceived in a room of post-adolescents) will be released in 1997, with a first success around the worldwhose clip is directed by Michel Gondry (future filmmaker of Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet).
Unpublished Infinity repeating
The explosion comes with the second album, Discovery (2001), and the planetary tube One more time, the first single released, with an animated clip by Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Harlock. The disc Human after all (2005) will be misunderstood.
But their fourth and final studio album, random access memories (2013), puts the two Frenchmen harnessed in robots at the top of the charts with the megatube get lucky (carried by the voice of Pharrell Williams and the guitar of Nile Rodgers).
It is within the framework of the tenth anniversary of this album that Beaubourg will unveil Thursday evening in “world preview” an unreleased from 2013, Infinity repeating.
We can hear the singer Julian Casablancas and The Voidz (parallel project to his other group, The Strokes), according to the Center Pompidou press release. It’s a “demo”, first draft of a piece originally composed for random access memories.
Infinity repeating is one of the nine tracks laid on tape in 2013 and never broadcast – 35 minutes of studio scraps, demos, preparatory work – filling the expanded reissue for the 10 years of “Random access memories” which will be published on Friday.
Five Grammys
Thursday, at 6:30 p.m. (Paris time, 12:30 p.m. Eastern time), for the reveal of Infinity repeatingthe Center Pompidou will offer “three experiences to discover the title”, “free and open access within the limits of available places”.
Or “listening in ultra-high fidelity, in collaboration with Ircam (Institute for research and acoustic/music coordination)”. The music video “lasting 4 min 15 s” will be screened in Gallery 3 with “equipment of more than 30 speakers and a stereo system designed by experts from Ircam”, with 150 seats available.
There will also be a screening of the music video in Cinema 1, with 300 seats. And finally, “a collective experience”, with “projection on the giant screen in the heart of the Forum of the Center Pompidou, 350 seats”, is announced.
Two other new releases have already been released. The writing of Fragments of time is a sound making-of of the track Fragments of time. And GLBTM is a kind of jam-session that foreshadows Give life back to music. By scanning on Wednesday the visual of random access memories (on vinyl, CD, platforms, etc.), Snapchat will broadcast “Horizon”, a track from the Japanese edition of the CD in 2013, already known to fans.
The opportunity to rediscover random access memorieswhich abandons the machines, turned to the dance floor of the 1970s, with five Grammys in the key, prestigious American awards.