Daft Punk

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories Has Leaked Online (Updated)

Surprise! The new Daft Punk Album, Random Access Memories, has leaked online one week before the official release. And if you’d rather get your music by legal means, you can stream the entire thing right here on iTunes. Snippets of the album have leaked over the past month or so, but this is apparently the…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 13

Floppy Drives Are Only Good for Playing Daft Punk Music Now

Can you remember the last time you used a floppy disk? I really don’t. I’m assuming it was some time in elementary school bringing a single Word document in a computer class or something. Maybe I’m making that up. Whatever, it doesn’t matter. Floppy drives don’t matter anymore. Unless they’re being used to make music.…

Tech News Casey Chan May 11

I Want These Daft Punk Lego Minifigs More Than Their New Album

Daft Punk’s next official album, Random Access Memories, drops in just over a couple of weeks which might as well be an eternity for die hard fans. But while I’m as excited as anyone for the duo’s next outing, I have to say I’m even more excited by these unofficial Daft Punk Lego minifigs. Created…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 7

Daft Punk’s New Single Totally Sounds Like a Michael Jackson Disco Jam

Fans of forward-looking music have at least two things to be excited about this spring: new albums from Boards of Canada (which is teasing fans with the rarest vinyl released this year) and Daft Punk, whose Random Access Memories is set for a May 20th release. On Friday, Daft Punk dropped the “Get Lucky” single…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Apr 23

Download Daft Punk’s New Song ‘Get Lucky’—The Radio Edit—Right Now

Daft Punk’s newest song Get Lucky from their upcoming album Random Access Memories has come with so much buzz that the only thing that can rival its thousands of leaks and millions of rumors is the next iPhone. Some people stitched together catchy loops from the SNL commercial, other people prayed for Coachella, but it’s…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 18

Daft Punk hasn’t had a good album in 12 years, but we still love them because we love science fiction

At least, that’s the provocative argument over at Vice’s Motherboard, where Brian Merchant argues that Daft Punk are better at creating a science-fictional mythos than they are at making great pop music. Writes Merchant: Daft Punk’s greatest trick wasn’t pulling warped melodies out of vocoders. It was transforming two better-than-average French DJs into cheeky interstellar…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25

Daft Swanson: The Daft Punk SNL Mystery Clip Meets a Dancing Gif

Why is Ron Swanson so happy? Why can’t he stop dancing? Oh you didin’t hear: There’s a new Daft Punk record on the way. During last week’s Saturday Night Live, NBC played a very short clip of funky dance music over the image of the Daft Punk logo and the odd helmet that that has…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 8

Listen to 15 seconds of a brand new Daft Punk track—but when will we hear more?

Your favorite music making robot duo Daft Punk is back and they’ve brought new tunes! Listen to a brief tease of the latest Daft Punk track (which premiered last night on SNL). The sounds are delightful, but everything else is left open. All we really know is that Daft Punk will be releasing their sweet…

Television Meredith Woerner Mar 3

Daft Punk – “Aerodynamic” (Moog Google Doodle Remix)

We just can’t get enough of the amazing Google Doodle paying homage to synth inventor Robert Moog, but Brett Domino takes the things to the next level with his rendition of Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic.” https://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-analog-synth-google-doodle-celebrates-p-5912392 Amidst all of the hubbub about the Moog Google Doodle today, it’s been easy to lose sight of Robert Moog’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 23

Top 10 Albums Every Self-Respecting Science Fiction Fan Should Own

Science fiction changed music. And music saved science fiction. Most of our favorite flights of fancy and epic adventures are bound up in our minds with amazing musical scores, or epic theme songs. But some of the greatest pieces of music ever created were also inspired by science fiction and fantasy. Over the past week,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar and Charlie Jane Anders Apr 30

Listen to two full albums of Daft Punk songs, remixed as Nintendo soundtracks

We’ve heard the Tron Legacy soundtrack transmogrified into floppy disc farts. Now witness France and/or robotdom’s premier deejaying duo turned into the digital drone of Commodore 64s and wheezing MS-DOS games. https://gizmodo.com/daft-punks-tron-theme-a-la-five-floppy-disc-drives-5873306 The folks at chiptune remix site Da Chip released their first batch of retrotech songs in 2009 and have just compiled a new…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 21

Tron’s Derezzed Played On Floppy Drives Is a Retro Audiogasm

How do you make an incredibly cool piece of music even cooler? Play it back on ol’ fashioned tech, that’s how. It certainly works for this version of Derezzed. Made by YouTuber MrSolidSnake745 using software from Sammy1Am, it shows five old-school floppy drives spitting out the licks originally laid down by Daft Punk. If you…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6

Daft Punk’s Tron theme, à la five floppy disc drives

Even if Daft Punk’s score to Tron Legacy didn’t melt your butter, it’s hard not to appreciate their track “Derezzed” being played by five groaning and wheezing floppy drives (mp3 here). This is incontrovertible evidence that in order for Tron 3 to succeed, the film must scale back its special effects such that it resembles…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 5

This DIY Daft Punk Helmet Will Win Best Costume at any Halloween Party. Guaranteed.

Not satisfied with his previous work replicating the Daft Punk helmet worn Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Harrison Krix went and made a replica of Thomas Bangalter’s helmet from scratch, ending up with a finished product as amazing as the orignal. https://gizmodo.com/dazzling-daft-punk-helmet-made-from-scratch-5593555 The core elements of the Bangalter helmet include a custom-molded helmet, a visor matrix with…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 19

How to build a Daft Punk helmet in four months

Propmaker Harrison Krix — who previously built the helmet of Daft Punk member Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo — has now assembled Thomas Bangalter’s robot helmet over a third of a year. Here’s his guide (some assembly required). [Via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 18

This Daft Punk Coke Better Not Taste Funky

According to Hypebeast, Coke and Daft Punk are uniting in the form of these gold and silver Daft Coke bottles. The shiny sodas will be distributed at the kinds of clubs you don’t get into starting this March, and will also be distributed through colette in Paris. First Tron, now Coke. Pretty soon we’ll be…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 23

This App Turns Your Music Into Astrotrippy Awesomeness

You’re about to watch a video of Performer. Know first that it’s an iPad app that lets musicians control their instruments by moving shapes around in real time. Know second that you are definitely tripping out. Keep in mind, also, that this is pretty strictly professional-grade. It connects to any instrument that receives OSC or…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 9

Rare Footage of Daft Punk’s 1980’s Helmet Found

Did I say 1980s? I meant 2011sies, sorry. I bet the sweaty Daft Punk guys are looking at DJ Kid Chameleon’s Macintosh Plus and iPad helmet in envy—especially if there’s a fan component squeezed in there. You can see him spinning tracks while wearing his iPad helmet after the 45 second mark in the video…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 14

A brief history of Daft Punk’s costumes

Daft Punk’s never been content to stay with one robotic bodysuit for too long, and here’s a visual history of their cyber-sartorial choices. You can see a massive version of this chart here. [Agent Raybans via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 2

7 awesome facts you need to know about Tron Legacy

We recently had opportunity to speak with the cast and crew of Tron Legacy and hear some tantalizing anecdotes about the film’s production…like the time Daft Punk held a rave on set. Spoilers on! 1.) Michael Sheen based his character, the nightclub owner Castor, on glam rock legends. My whole life has been inspired by…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 8

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories Has Leaked Online (Updated)

Floppy Drives Are Only Good for Playing Daft Punk Music Now

I Want These Daft Punk Lego Minifigs More Than Their New Album

Daft Punk’s New Single Totally Sounds Like a Michael Jackson Disco Jam

Download Daft Punk’s New Song ‘Get Lucky’—The Radio Edit—Right Now

Daft Punk hasn’t had a good album in 12 years, but we still love them because we love science fiction

Daft Swanson: The Daft Punk SNL Mystery Clip Meets a Dancing Gif

Listen to 15 seconds of a brand new Daft Punk track—but when will we hear more?

Daft Punk – “Aerodynamic” (Moog Google Doodle Remix)

Top 10 Albums Every Self-Respecting Science Fiction Fan Should Own

Listen to two full albums of Daft Punk songs, remixed as Nintendo soundtracks

Tron’s Derezzed Played On Floppy Drives Is a Retro Audiogasm

Daft Punk’s Tron theme, à la five floppy disc drives

This DIY Daft Punk Helmet Will Win Best Costume at any Halloween Party. Guaranteed.

How to build a Daft Punk helmet in four months

This Daft Punk Coke Better Not Taste Funky

This App Turns Your Music Into Astrotrippy Awesomeness

Rare Footage of Daft Punk’s 1980’s Helmet Found

A brief history of Daft Punk’s costumes

7 awesome facts you need to know about Tron Legacy

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