Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter joined Fred Once more.., Phantasy Sound label head Erol Alkan, and Ed Banger Data founder Pedro Winter for a shock B2B DJ set at Paris’ Centre Pompidou late final evening (Saturday, October 25). The event was a twentieth anniversary celebration for the French report label As a result of Music. For his first DJ set in 16 years, Bangalter dropped Daft Punk tracks together with “Rollin’ & Scratchin’,” “Digital Love,” and “Contact,” plus “Galvanise” by the Chemical Brothers and a part of Jonny Greenwood’s One Battle After One other rating. Take a look at footage and images of the occasion under.
“Thomas advised me on this raise on the best way right down to the present that the primary time he fell in love with digital music was on this constructing in 1992,” Fred Once more.. wrote on Instagram this morning. “He additionally advised me hasn’t performed a correct set with out the masks on for twenty-four years. I didn’t know what to say to both of these issues and I nonetheless don’t. All I mentioned to him on the finish is that I hope it isn’t 24 years til the subsequent.”
Bangalter made his final reside look—alongside together with his Daft Punk counterpart Man-Manuel de Homem-Christo—through the Weeknd’s efficiency on the 2017 Grammy Awards. He shared the solo album Mythologies in 2023. Daft Punk joined Fortnite earlier this yr, including songs from their catalog and their iconic TB3 and GM08 helmets to the online game.
Examine Daft Punk’s 1997 single “Across the World” in “The 30 Finest Home Tracks of the ’90s.”
