‘After Daft’ Ebook Covers the Duo’s Total Profession, Impression on Dwell Music & Tradition
An upcoming ebook celebrates Daft Punk — capturing the pioneering duo’s influence on pop, digital and dwell music.
After Daft by creator Gabriel Szatan will cowl their total profession, from formation in 1993 to their sudden cut up in 2021, together with genre- and industry-defining moments. Plus, a significantly in-depth have a look at Daft Punk’s seminal Alive 2006-07 tour, which modified the feel and appear of dwell music ceaselessly.
A press launch particulars: “It will likely be probably the most thorough try but to doc Daft Punk’s distinctive place inside the cultural panorama, together with interviews with a broad swathe of contributors who labored intently with Daft Punk for years, in addition to others within the wider {industry} who had been affected & impressed by the duo and their enduring influence.”
Szatan units up the ebook as follows:
Daft Punk sit within the pantheon of pop alongside Prince, Speaking Heads, Kate Bush, Stevie Marvel, Kraftwerk, Missy Elliott, David Bowie or any visionary you’d care to call. Past making joyous data, there are numerous compelling sub-narratives which circulate out and in of their profession: Alive 2006-07 was as consequential for dance music as The Beatles’ 1964 look on The Ed Sullivan Present was for rock ’n’ roll — what modified about the way in which we reply to concert events within the aftermath? Had been the Lecturers sufficiently recognised for his or her contributions? And the way did Daft Punk retain anonymity at a time when the web erased privateness for everybody else? I’m excited to carry all of it to mild — in addition to making the case for the way, over 28 years, music actually did sound higher with them.
After Daft will probably be launched in 2023.
A lot advanced from 1993 to 2021: French contact, weblog home, mashup, hyperpop, stadium raves, the way in which we reply to concert events ++
However many home & techno innovators misplaced out as EDM went supernova. It is from a easy line
Daft Punk are the proper axis level to discover all of it
— Gabe (@gabrielszatan) September 22, 2021