Europe 1 with AFP 11:10 a.m., February 23, 2022
A year after the announcement of their separation, the French musicians of Daft Punk signed their return on Tuesday by broadcasting a live concert from December 1997 in Los Angeles on the Twitch platform.
The show began airing at 10:22 p.m. GMT on February 22, 2022, sparking a flurry of rumors about the duo's possible reunion.
New coup de brilliance of the most famous electro duo in the world: exactly one year after the announcement of their separation, the French musicians of Daft Punk signed their return on Tuesday ... on social networks.
It all started in the afternoon in California with an enigmatic post on Instagram and Twitter, before Daft Punk rebroadcast on the Twitch platform a live concert from December 1997 in Los Angeles, where we see the duo formed in 1993 by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
According to numbers shared on Twitter by fans, the concert on Twitch began streaming at "2:22 pm Pacific Time", or 22:22 GMT, on 02/22/2022, triggering a cascade of messages and rumors on a possible reformation of the helmeted duo, officially separated on February 22, 2021.
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To mark this separation a year ago to the day, and this coup Tuesday on social networks, the pioneers of the French Touch also released a luxury box for the 25th anniversary of their first album
Homework
, in 1997 The record features their first hit
Around the world
, which had brought them international notoriety.
Media silence since their debut
On February 22, 2021, it was a shock wave on the music planet: by an enigmatic video posted on social networks, soberly titled “Epilogue”, Daft Punk had announced its separation.
The video of just over eight minutes showed the two members, in their traditional robot masks, walking through a desert.
After a few evocative signs of renunciation, one ended up triggering the self-destruction system of the other, which was pulverized.
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The duo was since
Homework
the greatest ambassador of French electro.
An unbreakable status solidified with three other opuses with worldwide success each time,
Discovery
(2001),
Human After All
(2005),
Random Access Memories
(2013) with the unmissable hit
Get Lucky
, as well as outstanding stage performances.
The absence of concerts for 14 years was coupled with a strategy of media silence from their beginnings: we officially do not know their faces, hidden under a robot mask.