Daft Punk Breaks Up
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Daft Punk, the pioneering electronic dance music duo, have broken up.
The band announced the news of their split in a video titled “Epilogue” on Monday, and the band’s publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the news to Pitchfork, though no reason was given for their split.
Daft Punk was a French duo made up of artists Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and the band has been together since 1993, collaborating with dozens of musicians such as The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams and Giorgio Moroder, to name a few, as well as composed the musical score for Disney’s “Tron: Legacy.”
The band throughout their career concealed their identities behind shiny robot masks, whether on stage, in videos or on awards shows. And though they had been together for near three decades, the band was often reclusive, touring sporadically and only putting out four commercial albums (and the soundtrack for “Tron: Legacy”) in their long career.
Watch the video announcement, which is excerpted from their 2006 film “Electroma,” above.
More to come…