Artist Spotlight: March- Daft Punk

Welcome to my Artist Spotlight, every month on my World Tour show (Wednesday's 3-4pm KCC Live) I select an musician or band and play tracks from their discography, and on this blog I'll be writing about the artist or band in question. This month's Artist Spotlight is Daft Punk from France.

The dance duo consisting of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel Du Homem-Christo originally started their musical career in the band Darlin' back in 1992 with Laurent Mazzalai who went on to join Phoenix a French indie band. A journalist from Melody Maker referred to Darlin's album as 'a bunch of daft punk' which is how the duo go their name and in 1993 Daft Punk was born but it wouldn't be until 94 before the released their first song The New Wave which eventually became Alive on their debut album Homework released in 1997 which also featured the hit single Around The World.

With the duo's second album Discovery the duo came up with the idea of making an animated musical to accompany the album with the albums music forming the soundtrack to the animated film that the duo collaborating with Visual Supervisor Leiji Matsumoto made. Interstella 5555 The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem told the story of four blue-skinned musicians from an alien planet being kidnapped by a record producer who then alters them to look human reprogramming their minds in the process and becoming Crescendolls a new music sensation on earth. The film was segmented into music videos for single such as One More Time, Digital Love and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Along with the release of Interstella 5555 The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem Daft Punk also released Daft Club, a collection of their music remixed by the likes of Basement Jaxx, The Neptunes and even Daft Punk themselves.

They released their third album Human After All in 2005 with hits including Robot Rock and Technologic, they also directed a film which was originally supposed to be the music video for Human After All but they decided to turn it into a feature length film following two robots as they go on a journey.

Currently Daft Punk are working on the music score for Tron Legacy and are rumoured to make a cameo appearance in the film. They also appear in the game DJ Hero.