Daft Punk‘s affect on digital music is simple and unparalleled. Now, a cavalcade of artists will share their takes on the French legends’ sound and legacy.
The forthcoming ebook After Daft: The Rewiring of twenty first Century Tradition will embrace interviews with an A-list lineup of digital artists, together with Porter Robinson, Kevin Saunderson, Disclosure, The Blessed Madonna, DJ Minx, Madeon, Pedro Winter, Peaches, Junior Sanchez, Lady Discuss and plenty of extra. See the entire checklist under.
Coming in March 2024, the ebook shall be a deep dive into the Daft Punk universe, exploring the duo’s inner-workings and mass enchantment. A press launch notes that the ebook will go “deeper than ever earlier than on the artistic imaginative and prescient which established the French duo’s legend and the elements that precipitated their break up. The mission additionally takes a wide-angle lens to the previous 30+ years of technological adjustments and musical evolution, with perception drawn from over 100 artists, DJs, studio specialists, filmmakers, designers, document labels and live performance promoters who helped propel dance & digital music’s surging affect inside popular culture.”
After Daft is being written by Gabriel Szatan, a music and tradition journalist whose work has appeared throughout publications together with The Guardian, Pitchfork, DJ Magazine and Dazed. (Szatan has additionally contributed to Billboard.) He’s presently the top of dance & digital at Tidal and Boiler Room’s former
editor-in-chief and senior curator.
“We went into the mission questioning: what if there was a more energizing and extra compelling strategy to body this transformative age in tradition?” Szatan says in a press launch. “That’s why After Daft is artist-led, to inform an genuine story by the eyes of those that formed it: musicians from completely different backgrounds and disciplines whose lives interacted in fascinating methods, undersung creatives who oil the business machine, in addition to numerous artists that thrived because the ceiling was raised on dance & digital music’s artistic prospects and immense world recognition.”
In the meantime, Daft Punk introduced that an expanded version of their 2013 traditional Random Entry Recollections is coming this Could. The mission will embrace 35 minutes of further materials throughout 9 tracks, together with unreleased demos and studio outtakes
