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 figures shared on Twitter by fans, the concert on Twitch began to air 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.
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 disc includes their first hit "Around the world", which gave them international notoriety.
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 a little more than 8 minutes showed the two members, under their traditional masks of robots, advancing in a desert.
After a few evocative signs of renunciation, one ended up triggering the self-destruction system of the other, which was pulverized.
The duo was since "Homework" the greatest ambassador of French electro.
An unbreakable status solidified with three other opuses with global success each time, "Discovery" (2001), "Human After All" (2005), "Random Access Memories" (2013) with the essential 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.
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