PIONEERS
Daft Punk
They changed the course of dance music history using more filters than Moog. ‘Daft punky thrash’? Not really.
Daft Punk were the French filtering duo who introduced genres to the world, pioneered production techniques still used to this day, mixed orchestral and analogue synth like no one else, and, more importantly than all of the above, produced some of the most iconic dance anthems ever, often with DIY studio ethos.
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After sharing common music tastes in their youth, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter formed Darlin’, named after a Beach Boys track, and a band that Melody Maker famously described as ‘daft punky thrash’. In what would be typical of the Daft Punk twisted humour to come, they named their next outfit after the review. We would say the rest is history, but actually, it starts out at just plain weird and very 1990s.