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HISTORICAL FACTS: Thomas bangalter - Caught on Camera

The Guide #254: Artist anonymity is a radical act in our cultural obsession with visibility

Hidden creators reveal how invisibility can be a shield and spotlight in an era of relentless self‑exposure

The Guardian - UK

“Literally for two years, I had one piano with a GoPro that I mounted on it. I didn't touch one synthesizer. I didn't open any machines”: Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on his reaction to the huge scale and success of Random Access Memories

He also explains how the direction for the album was set by Daft Punk's work on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack

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“I said to Guy-Man, ‘Let’s wear ski jackets – if we get through that anything will be easy.’ And that’s what we did – it was the worst ever”: Thomas Bangalter reveals Daft Punk's extreme preparation for the heat of their iconic 2006 Coachella set

“I was one of the robots, but now I’m just a human without any superpowers," he says

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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter announces new album ‘Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers’

French electro pioneer Thomas Bangalter continues his musical pivot, collaborating with choreographer Damien Jalet and contemporary artist Kōhei Nawa.

Euronews

How Alan Braxe and Fred Falke made an all-time house classic with just a sampler and a bass guitar: “When we did this 25 years ago, it felt like we had no clue of what we were doing”

Watch the French house icons recreate their classic track Intro in the studio

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“I got woken up at 3 AM by a fan spamming my DMs. I looked at the stream and was like, ‘no way!’ I’m still in disbelief”: UKG phenom MPH on featuring in Thomas Bangalter’s comeback DJ set

MPH is at the forefront of a new wave of producers reshaping UK bass. He joins us to talk about the making of third album Substance, his stripped-back studio set-up and how it feels to get a cosign from one half of Daft Punk

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Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter performs first DJ set in 16 years – and it's a B2B with Fred Again

"Thomas told me in this lift on the way down to the show that the first time he fell in love with electronic music was in this building in 1992. He also told me hasn’t played a proper set without the mask on for 24 years"

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The Oasis Effect: Which bands should reunite next?

Call it a comeback. If Oasis can heed their own advice and not look back in anger, then anything’s possible... Here are the musical acts we’d love to see reunited. And the odds we'll see them together again.

Euronews

Scottish rappers, deaf composers and an AI song called Zygotic Washstands: the biggest hoaxes in pop

Ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür was conned into believing he was collaborating with a member of Daft Punk – but it’s far from the first time musicians and audiences have been fooled

The Guardian - UK

“We love you guys. Without Kraftwerk we would not find our own robot style, being on stage with the helmets, you know”: How a fake Daft Punk fooled Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür into a collaboration

They pretended to be Thomas Bangalter

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“I almost had this adverse reaction, like an overdose”: Daft Punk man Thomas Bangalter releases his 6-hour opera soundtrack

Thomas Bangalter releases six hour opera soundtrack

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“I’m told they’re working on it, it’s coming out of the locker”: Daft Punk drummer raises hopes that a new album could be on the way

Quinn reveals details of 2018 sessions and says that there’s a record that “sits in limbo”

MusicRadar

The 20 greatest French touch tracks – ranked!

As Cassius’s scene-defining album 1999 turns 25, we revisit the sample-powered, disco-fabulous sound that carried Daft Punk and others to fame

The Guardian - UK

“He insisted I bring my plexiglass guitar”: Nile Rodgers on Thomas Bangalter’s specific request when Daft Punk invited him into the studio to record Get Lucky

“Life was one way before Random Access Memories, and completely different after,” says Rodgers

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It's a fact - Daft Punk's Discovery and Homework really were recorded in a bedroom (and mixed on a JVC boombox): "That little boombox is what we mixed and recorded both Homework and Discovery on. That was the magic one"

We made LEGO models in ours, they made two multi-platinum selling albums in theirs

Inverse

20 Years Ago, a Music Legend Made a Shockingly Great Sci-Fi Movie

“The story was already in the record,” editor Olivier Gajan tells Inverse. “They had that in their mind at the beginning.”

The Independent UK

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Los Angeles Times

Yes, he performed as a robot, but ex-Daft Punk member says AI has him 'terrified'

Thomas Bangalter, formerly one-half of electronic music duo Daft Punk, said this week that his fear of artificial intelligence was a factor in why the group split in 2021.

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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter says that his concerns around the rise of AI “go beyond its use in music creation”

In a rare interview, the musician also reveals that “the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot”

The Guardian - UK

‘Within a minute, everyone was dancing’ – Stardust on making Music Sounds Better With You

‘When the money started to roll in, I went to this record shop I loved and asked to see every piece of expensive vinyl I’d ever lusted after. “I’ll take them all!” I said’

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Daft Punk and Todd Edwards take you back to the writing of Fragments of Time in previously unheard studio conversations

The tape was running as they worked on the track, which appeared on the soon-to-be-reissued Random Access Memories

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