Daft Punk are calling it quits.
On Monday, the French duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter announced the end of their acclaimed project with an eight-minute video titled “Epilogue”. The video contains excerpts from Daft Punk’s 2006 film Electroma — including a scene in which one of the robots blows himself up. Following the explosion, the video displays a frame reading, “1993-2021”.
Daft Punk’s publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the group’s split to Pitchfork.
After first meeting as students at a Paris secondary school in 1987, Bangalter and Homem-Christo started making music together. They initially formed an indie rock group called Darlin’, but eventually lost interest in the style of music and began experimenting with drum machines and synthesizers. They rebranded themselves as Daft Punk — taking their name from a negative review for Darlin’ which labeled their music as “daft punky trash” — and released their debut single “The New Wave” in 1994. Their debut studio album Homework, featuring the No. 1 single “Around the World”, was released three years later in 1997.
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