Daft Punk have shared a uncommon unmasked reside video of ‘Rollin & Scratchin’ from their archives on-line – test it out beneath.
The clip was first aired as a part of a one-off Twitch stream final 12 months, throughout which the French digital duo streamed a full set filmed in LA’s Mayan Theater in 1997. The stream marked the one-year anniversary of their break up in 2021, and the twenty fifth anniversary of their landmark debut ‘Homework’.
Now, followers can watch the efficiency once more, one of many uncommon events the place neither member of Daft Punk is carrying their well-known robotic masks.
Test it out beneath:
Daft Punk’s follow of sharing refreshed movies from the archive is beginning to develop into an everyday occurance. They beforehand launched footage of them performing ‘Da Funk’ and ‘Revolution 909’ and joined TikTok in October 2022.
Thomas Bangalter’s father Daniel Vangarde not too long ago spoke to NME for the Does Rock N’Roll Kill Braincells? sequence. Requested if he ever anticipated that his son would comply with in his footsteps by changing into a musician, he stated: “By no means. His mom wished him to study piano and his trainer was within the Opera of Paris. After some time, I requested him if Thomas was any good, and the trainer replied: ‘He’s OK, however he has an incredible sense of rhythm that makes individuals need to dance’.
“When Thomas met [Daft Punk bandmate] Man-Manuel, their frequent love was cinema. I feel Thomas solely got here to the studio with me as soon as which is nice, as a result of in any other case he would have discovered to provide in a standard method and misplaced what made Daft Punk distinctive.”
He additionally mentioned how he helped Daft Punk within the early days of their profession. “When the band began they had been of their 20s, so I helped and suggested them in order that they received complete inventive and monetary freedom and stayed house owners of all the pieces they do. And I’m glad as a result of I feel there’s an excessive amount of interference between the time an artist thinks of a venture and when it’s distributed: it arrives distorted.
“One of many causes for Daft Punk’s success is that they did precisely what they wished and it got here to the general public precisely, unfiltered, from their minds.”
In different Daft Punk-related information, a Dublin hearth brigade not too long ago recorded themselves dancing to their hit ‘One Extra Time’ earlier than Christmas to lift cash for St Joseph’s Major Faculty for Kids with Visible Impairment.
