Daft Punk

Daft Punk is a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 by Toma Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Omem-Christo. They achieved considerable success by the end of the nineties on the wave of the house music movement in France, creating their own sound by mixing elements of electro, house, disco and synthpop.

The real faces of the electronic music duo “Daft Punk” are familiar to fans from photos on social networks. During performances, Frenchmen Toma Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Omem-Cristo hide under shining helmets – the main component of the stage image of robots. The wave of success hit Daft Punk in the late 1990s, when the popularity of house music swept the country.

But the guys found their niche by mixing electro, disco, synth-pop and house styles. Live performances of the duo, colorful special effects, emphasis on the visual component are important, but the main thing is that the revolutionary musicians opened the era of human punk rock. Electronic sound is aggressive, but Bangalter and Omem-Cristo broke the system, “humanizing” the music created by computers, filling it with tenderness and emotions.

The first pages of the creative biography of “Daft Punk” were written in 1993, but the history of the duo begins much earlier. The members of the collective – two young Parisians, met at Lycée Carnot, being teenagers, in 1987. Tom Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Omem-Cristo were united by their love of music. The friends found like-minded people at the lycée and recorded their first tracks.