The Duo and thier History

Daft Punk is a first wave acid house/techno group formed in 1993. Comprised of the duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They came together with similar tastes in music and were influenced by music groups such a the Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. They met at the same school they attended which was the Lycee Carnot Secondary School in Paris, Fance. They both started a band together with some other people named "Darlin'". After the band had broken up, de Homem-Christo and Bangalter still made music together.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter

Soon after in 1997, they released thier first album: "Homework" which had a combination of techno, house, acid house, and electro styles of music. It contained some of thier first hits like "Da Funk".

Album Cover of "Homework"

In 1999, they released thier second album:  "Discovery", an album that was directly a synthpop oriented style. During that time, they had worked on "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem", an animation supervised by manga drawer Leiji Matsumoto. This film utilized the album "Discovery" as not only its soundtrack, but its full audio.

Album Cover of "Discovery"

 In 2004, they released "Human After All", which had songs like "Technologic". In this album, daft punk applies minimalism (movements in various art form) and rock music along side thier own style of music. Daft Punk had worked on this album for only six weeks, which was relatively short compared to previous albums.

Album cover of "Human After All"

To this day they are still making music music and working on projects. These projects include being featured in the game "DJ Hero" with thier own playlist and venue, making a soundtrack and guest appearance in the movie "Tron: Legacy".
  Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo was born February 8, 1974 in Paris, France. He was given a toy guitar and the keyboard at the age of 7 who was then eventually offered the electric guitar at the age of 14. In thier old band "Darlin'", He played guitar.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo on the turntables

Along side with Daft Punk, he and Eric Chedville formed a musical duo "Le Knight Club" who is also the co-owner of thier record label "Crydamoure". De Homem-Christo is also a film director along with being a musician.

The logo of the record label "Crydamoure"

  Thomas Bangalter was born January 3, 1975 in Paris, France. At the age of 6, He played piano. Bangalter was born to strict parents. His father, Daniel Vangarte is a well known songwriter and producer, but Thomas didnt want to follow in his father's footsteps.

Thomas Bangalter

Like de Homem-Christo, Banglter had joined different music groups along side with Daft Punk. He had joined the trio: "Stardust" and the duo:"Together". Bangalter is married to french actress Elodie Bouchez and has two sons. They live in Beverly Hills, California.

Cover of Stardust's single "Music Sounds Better with You"

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