On Monday, February 22nd, Daft Punk announced that they would be breaking up after 28 years. The EDM duo, which formed in Paris, France in 1993 by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, broke the news about their split by posting a 8-minute video titled “Epilogue,” on their YouTube channel.
The video is an excerpt from their 2006 film Electroma and shows two robots, meant to symbolize the artist duo, walking the desert. Then, the two face each other, one turns the other way and walks in the opposite direction. We hear beeping coming from the one walking, and it turns to a panel on the robot’s back, counting down. At the end of the countdown, the robot blows up. The video then shows the iconic triangle made by the two robot’s hands with “1993-2021” underneath. The remaining robot is shown continuing to walk through the desert.
While Daft Punk’s publicist, Kathryn Frazier, confirmed that the video symbolized the breakup of the duo, no reason has been given for the split. After nearly three decades, Daft Punk is most well known for their songs “One More Time,” “Instant Crush,” featuring Julian Casablancas, “Get Lucky,” featuring Pharrel Williams, and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.”
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