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Daft Punk Reissuing Homework on Vinyl, Livestreamed Rare 1997 Concert

By Jazz Monroe

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Today, on the first anniversary of their breakup , Daft Punk are airing a one-off stream of a rare 1997 concert, recorded before they began wearing helmets. It’s happening right now on Twitch . This is not a drill! Go watch it now or forever hold your peace. Find the stream here . Update: Sorry, you missed your shot, the stream is over.

The livestream footage came from a set that Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter played at Los Angeles nightclub the Mayan around the Homework release. A representative stressed that the show will air only once, and that’s exactly what happened.

The duo has also announced a vinyl reissue of its landmark debut album, Homework , for its 25th anniversary. The Homework vinyl LP and a vinyl reissue of Alive ’97 are out April 15. Homework (25th Anniversary Edition) , which will also get released digitally, includes numerous remixes. Find the tracklist below.

Daft Punk called it quits a year ago today, eight years after releasing their final album, Random Access Memories . Read Pitchfork’s 2013 feature with the duo and the Sunday Review of Homework .

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Daft Punk: Homework (25th Anniversary Edition)

Homework (25th Anniversary Edition) :

Disc 1: Homework – Original Album: 01 Daftendirekt 02 WDPK 83.7 FM 03 Revolution 909 04 Da Funk 05 Phoenix 06 Fresh 07 Around the World 08 Rollin’ & Scratchin’ 09 Teachers 10 High Fidelity 11 Rock’n Roll 12 Oh Yeah 13 Burnin’ 14 Indo Silver Club 15 Alive 16 Funk Ad

Disc 2: Homework Remixes: 01 Around the World (I:Cube Remix) 02 Revolution 909 (Roger Sanchez & Junior Sanchez Remix) 03 Around the World (Tee’s Frozen Sun Mix) 04 Around the World (Mellow Mix) 05 Burnin' (DJ Sneak Main Mix) 06 Around the World (Kenlou Mix) 07 Burnin’ (Ian Pooley Cut Up Mix) 08 Around the World (Motorbass Vice Mix) 09 Around the World (M.A.W. Remix) 10 Burnin’ (Slam Mix) 11 Around the World (Original Lead Only) 12 Burnin’ (DJ Sneak Mongowarrier Mix) 13 Around the World (Raw Dub) 14 Teachers (Extended Mix) 15 Revolution 909 (Revolution A Capella)

This article was originally published on Tuesday, February 22 at 5:10 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on Wednesday, February 23 at 10:22 a.m. Eastern.

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Homework: How Daft Punk Schooled Us In The Future Of Dance Music

Homework: How Daft Punk Schooled Us In The Future Of Dance Music

With their debut album, ‘Homework’, Daft Punk cemented their place in history, even while shaping what that history would become.

There are those who ride the waves of a scene, and there are those who create a new scene in the first place. Daft Punk have always been the latter, particularly in the formative years surrounding their debut album, Homework .

Listen to Homework here

Scrappy, raw and experimental.

Few musical acts have changed so much between albums as Daft Punk did in the four years between the release of Homework , on 20 January 1997, and its follow-up, Discovery . Reinvention is often the key to longevity in music, but it usually comes after years of exhausting the same tried and tested formula. For Daft Punk, however, their first two albums feel like the works of entirely different artists: meticulously detailed and polished, Discovery was stuffed with instant classics that aimed for the big leagues. Homework , however, represents everything that’s exciting about the best debut albums: scrappy, raw and experimental, it perfectly captured the spirit of Daft Punk’s live sets in their early years, with tracks mixing into each other perfectly, building and maintaining energy as if tooled for a club appearance.

Video footage from a live show in Wisconsin, in 1996, demonstrates this perfectly. Claiming to be the earliest evidence of Daft Punk on stage, there isn’t a mirror ball or robot mask in sight. Aesthetically, it could be any boiler-room gig – a small audience going wild as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo rip through their set with absolute conviction. Sonically, it’s a wild ride: the beat is the only constant; everything else can be thrown in and pulled away again in an instant. Tracks like Homework ’s Rock’n Roll, with its pulsating scratch loop, brought the excitement of these shows to listeners’ stereos.

Hints of the Daft Punk to come

However, Homework isn’t just a recorded version of an early gig. Across its 75 minutes, there are plenty of hints of the Daft Punk to come, particularly with the standout hits Alive, Da Funk and Around The World. The ambition alone of these early singles was enough to change the dance music scene at the time, pushing house back into the mainstream.

Recorded on the cheap at home (a process that gave the album its title), Homework wasn’t truly intended to be an album: the singles are placed between the more experimental tracks in an attempt to form something that felt more traditionally cohesive. Even so, it’s clear there were two very difference sides to Daft Punk, even in these early stages.

Few artists could produce their debut album at home while ensuring it sounded perfect wherever it was played, but, channelling huge amounts of energy and live experience for the recording, Bangalter and De Homem-Christo already knew what would work and what wouldn’t on their limited set-up. It’s this adaptability that made Daft Punk’s journey from club act to festival headliners a smooth one. But while it’s one thing to make an album at home, it’s an entirely other thing to have it cement your place in musical history.

Here are some of the standout tracks that make Homework a lesson in the evolution of dance music…

Homework : the tracks you need to hear

Revolution 909.

There’s a drum sound so industrial it could have been recorded in a factory, landing with such a satisfying clang that it’s hard to focus on anything else. Revolution 909 sits perfectly as one of Homework ’s opening tracks, setting the energy for the rest of the album and leading flawlessly into Da Funk…

… Which is not only a highlight on Homework , it’s a highlight of Daft Punk’s entire career. When a band discovers a truly great riff, they strip down everything else and squeeze every last drop out of it. Da Funk is one of those: instant, direct, and memorable – everything you want from a house track. Also, shout-out to the music video by the masterful Spike Jonze, in which a dog with its leg in a cast gets treated with complete indifference by a load of strangers.

Nothing sums up the early Daft Punk sound quite like Phoenix. Though subtler than some of the Homework ’s later tracks, it’s fully earned its place amongst the group’s bigger hitters.

Around The World

What more is there to say that hasn’t already been said? Around The World remains a juggernaut in dance music. Every part has been tightened to perfection, making it the perfect instrumental for the duo to introduce their trademark robot voice on.

With a twitching bassline that props up an ever-growing beat, Burnin’ is surrounded by all kinds of pops, scratches, slides and squeaks. If Homework builds in intensity as a live set would, this is the peak of that experience.

One of the original singles dropped ahead of Homework’s release, Alive still sounds as huge as ever. There’s a reason they name their tours after this song…

Check out the best Daft Punk song of all time to discover how they got harder, better, faster, stronger.

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Homework (25th Anniversary Edition)

Few records combine sonic innovation with veneration for what came before as succinctly as Daft Punk’s 1997 debut, Homework. The title itself implies this duality: It’s a reference to both the bedroom studio where musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo recorded their early house and techno productions, and a nod to the older artists the duo studied in preparation for their dance music breakthrough. Many of those musical ancestors are name-checked on the Homework track “Teachers,” on which Bangalter and Homem-Christo salute the (mostly) electronic music producers and DJs who inspired their work. That includes plenty of semi-obscure Chicago house music heroes and Detroit and UK techno champions, many of whom predated Daft Punk by a decade—but who were still active in the late-1990s rave scene. By tagging their peers, the members of Daft Punk were expressing solidarity with the many BIPOC artists whom they’d obsessed over for years. It was a declaration of belonging that could have come off as appropriation, had Homework not so fully elevated the genre. Bangalter and Homem-Christo might wear their influences on their sleeve, but their music transcends mere tribute; it’s some of the most unforgettable hook-laden house and techno ever put to wax. When it comes to the dance floor, if a record’s hot, that record is hot. And DJs across the globe pumped Homework’s 16 tracks, which included everything from playful filtered disco (“Revolution 909”) to throttling acid techno (“Rollin’ & Scratchin’”). Meanwhile, radio jocks and MTV programmers on the lookout for format-friendly versions of popular rave sounds swooned over Homework cuts like “Da Funk” and “Around the World,” which became breakout hits, thanks to inventive videos directed, respectively, by Spike Jonez and Michel Gondry. That near-impossible confluence of talent and timing allowed Homework to achieve its position atop every list of 1990s electronic music. As time went on, the members of Daft Punk would prove themselves worthy of every accolade Homework received as they continued to evolve from students to teachers to masters—elevating the state of electronic music every step of the way.

January 20, 1997 31 Songs, 3 hours, 2 minutes Distributed exclusively by Warner Music France / ADA France, ℗ 1997, 2022 Daft Life Ltd.

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Daft Punk to Live Stream Their 'Discovery'-Era Anime Film 'Interstella 5555' on Twitch

T hree years ago, Daft Punk ( nee Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) announced that they were breaking up. And every year since, they have done a little something on the anniversary of this announcement, from sharing an old live show to announcing a deluxe edition of their Grammy-winning 2013 masterpiece "Random Access Memories."

This year, they are going to be streaming 2003's "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem," the "Discovery"-era anime movie, live on Twitch .

Described as a "visual companion" to "Discovery," the elaborately animated movie follows a blue-skinned alien superstar music group who is taken hostage and - of course - has to mount a daring escape. All set to the immortal songs from their breakthrough 2001 album. (This was also the album that introduced the concept that Bangalter and de Homem-Christo were no longer human but had instead transitioned to a robotic state.)

"Interstella 5555" was overseen by legendary Japanese animator and manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, of "Space Battleship Yamato" fame and animated by Toei Animation, the studio behind the initial run of "Transformers," as well as "Dragon Ball Z" and "Sailor Moon" (among many others). Kazuhisa Takenouchi, a "Dragon Ball Z" veteran, directed the film from a script by Daft Punk and Cédric Hervet.

Several segments from "Interstella 5555" doubled as music videos from "Discovery." The movie was later released on DVD and, in 2011, on Blu-ray. Both editions are currently out-of-print and going for exorbitant amounts on secondhand platforms like eBay.

Since disbanding, they have re-released both their debut album "Homework" and "Random Access Memories" (even releasing a drumless version of "Random Access Memories"), produced a series of YouTube mini-documentaries about the making of "Random Access Memories" called "Memory Tapes," put out more official merchandise on their website (including some new "epilogue" stuff) and engaged in their own solo projects, like Bangalter's "Mythologies" project and his recent original score for "Daaaaaalí!"

The post Daft Punk to Live Stream Their 'Discovery'-Era Anime Film 'Interstella 5555' on Twitch appeared first on TheWrap .

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