Marseilles (AFP)
A new "set" by Daft Punk, a flagship duo of French electro, has just been found 25 years later, recorded on two banal audio cassettes forgotten at the bottom of a shoebox.
A little gem discovered by chance, near Avignon.
The inventor of this treasure, Benoît Chow, 25, was barely born when the pioneers of the French Touch performed this Saturday, November 18, 1995, on the stage of the Privé, the discotheque that his father then ran, in Les Angles (Gard ), in the suburb of the city of the Popes.
But he heard about this time: "I knew that these K7s existed, because everything was recorded, but we have very few of these archives left", explains the young man to AFP.
It therefore remained to find them.
Teleworking and temporarily staying with his parents at the beginning of January, this young employee in the finance sector is rummaging in a closet in search of anything else.
And it is the discovery: "I found a box of cassettes that I knew and I started to look at what was really in there, and I saw these K7!"
On both cassettes, a simple label: "Daft Punk n ° 1" and "Daft Punk n ° 2".
The time to find a device to listen to them and it's a surprise: a recording of 2 hours 54 minutes of the two musicians, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
On their decks, they mix songs from DJs of the time, such as Laurent Garnier or Jeff Mills.
But they also play their first two hits, "Da Funk" and "Rollin 'and Scratchin'", which they just released on their first maxi.
Benoît Chow immediately published them on YouTube and other platforms such as Soundcloud and Mixcloud.
And the success is immediate: "I had a lot of positive feedback from the fans, very excited," he told AFP.
"They asked me a lot of questions about the event, they wanted anecdotes. Some even wanted to buy them back from me, others that I send them to have them digitized in a professional studio," he smiles.
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