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Daft Punk Reissuing Homework on Vinyl, Livestreamed Rare 1997 Concert

Today, on the first anniversary of their breakup , Daft Punk are airing a one-off stream of a rare 1997 concert, recorded before they began wearing helmets. It’s happening right now on Twitch . This is not a drill! Go watch it now or forever hold your peace. Find the stream here . Update: Sorry, you missed your shot, the stream is over.

The livestream footage came from a set that Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter played at Los Angeles nightclub the Mayan around the Homework release. A representative stressed that the show will air only once, and that’s exactly what happened.

The duo has also announced a vinyl reissue of its landmark debut album, Homework , for its 25th anniversary. The Homework vinyl LP and a vinyl reissue of Alive ’97 are out April 15. Homework (25th Anniversary Edition) , which will also get released digitally, includes numerous remixes. Find the tracklist below.

Daft Punk called it quits a year ago today, eight years after releasing their final album, Random Access Memories . Read Pitchfork’s 2013 feature with the duo and the Sunday Review of Homework .

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Homework (25th Anniversary Edition) :

Disc 1: Homework – Original Album: 01 Daftendirekt 02 WDPK 83.7 FM 03 Revolution 909 04 Da Funk 05 Phoenix 06 Fresh 07 Around the World 08 Rollin’ & Scratchin’ 09 Teachers 10 High Fidelity 11 Rock’n Roll 12 Oh Yeah 13 Burnin’ 14 Indo Silver Club 15 Alive 16 Funk Ad

Disc 2: Homework Remixes: 01 Around the World (I:Cube Remix) 02 Revolution 909 (Roger Sanchez & Junior Sanchez Remix) 03 Around the World (Tee’s Frozen Sun Mix) 04 Around the World (Mellow Mix) 05 Burnin' (DJ Sneak Main Mix) 06 Around the World (Kenlou Mix) 07 Burnin’ (Ian Pooley Cut Up Mix) 08 Around the World (Motorbass Vice Mix) 09 Around the World (M.A.W. Remix) 10 Burnin’ (Slam Mix) 11 Around the World (Original Lead Only) 12 Burnin’ (DJ Sneak Mongowarrier Mix) 13 Around the World (Raw Dub) 14 Teachers (Extended Mix) 15 Revolution 909 (Revolution A Capella)

This article was originally published on Tuesday, February 22 at 5:10 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on Wednesday, February 23 at 10:22 a.m. Eastern.

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Homework: How Daft Punk Schooled Us In The Future Of Dance Music

With their debut album, ‘Homework’, Daft Punk cemented their place in history, even while shaping what that history would become.

There are those who ride the waves of a scene, and there are those who create a new scene in the first place. Daft Punk have always been the latter, particularly in the formative years surrounding their debut album, Homework .

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Scrappy, raw and experimental.

Few musical acts have changed so much between albums as Daft Punk did in the four years between the release of Homework , on 20 January 1997, and its follow-up, Discovery . Reinvention is often the key to longevity in music, but it usually comes after years of exhausting the same tried and tested formula. For Daft Punk, however, their first two albums feel like the works of entirely different artists: meticulously detailed and polished, Discovery was stuffed with instant classics that aimed for the big leagues. Homework , however, represents everything that’s exciting about the best debut albums: scrappy, raw and experimental, it perfectly captured the spirit of Daft Punk’s live sets in their early years, with tracks mixing into each other perfectly, building and maintaining energy as if tooled for a club appearance.

Video footage from a live show in Wisconsin, in 1996, demonstrates this perfectly. Claiming to be the earliest evidence of Daft Punk on stage, there isn’t a mirror ball or robot mask in sight. Aesthetically, it could be any boiler-room gig – a small audience going wild as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo rip through their set with absolute conviction. Sonically, it’s a wild ride: the beat is the only constant; everything else can be thrown in and pulled away again in an instant. Tracks like Homework ’s Rock’n Roll, with its pulsating scratch loop, brought the excitement of these shows to listeners’ stereos.

Hints of the Daft Punk to come

However, Homework isn’t just a recorded version of an early gig. Across its 75 minutes, there are plenty of hints of the Daft Punk to come, particularly with the standout hits Alive, Da Funk and Around The World. The ambition alone of these early singles was enough to change the dance music scene at the time, pushing house back into the mainstream.

Recorded on the cheap at home (a process that gave the album its title), Homework wasn’t truly intended to be an album: the singles are placed between the more experimental tracks in an attempt to form something that felt more traditionally cohesive. Even so, it’s clear there were two very difference sides to Daft Punk, even in these early stages.

Few artists could produce their debut album at home while ensuring it sounded perfect wherever it was played, but, channelling huge amounts of energy and live experience for the recording, Bangalter and De Homem-Christo already knew what would work and what wouldn’t on their limited set-up. It’s this adaptability that made Daft Punk’s journey from club act to festival headliners a smooth one. But while it’s one thing to make an album at home, it’s an entirely other thing to have it cement your place in musical history.

Here are some of the standout tracks that make Homework a lesson in the evolution of dance music…

Homework : the tracks you need to hear

Revolution 909.

There’s a drum sound so industrial it could have been recorded in a factory, landing with such a satisfying clang that it’s hard to focus on anything else. Revolution 909 sits perfectly as one of Homework ’s opening tracks, setting the energy for the rest of the album and leading flawlessly into Da Funk…

… Which is not only a highlight on Homework , it’s a highlight of Daft Punk’s entire career. When a band discovers a truly great riff, they strip down everything else and squeeze every last drop out of it. Da Funk is one of those: instant, direct, and memorable – everything you want from a house track. Also, shout-out to the music video by the masterful Spike Jonze, in which a dog with its leg in a cast gets treated with complete indifference by a load of strangers.

Nothing sums up the early Daft Punk sound quite like Phoenix. Though subtler than some of the Homework ’s later tracks, it’s fully earned its place amongst the group’s bigger hitters.

Around The World

What more is there to say that hasn’t already been said? Around The World remains a juggernaut in dance music. Every part has been tightened to perfection, making it the perfect instrumental for the duo to introduce their trademark robot voice on.

With a twitching bassline that props up an ever-growing beat, Burnin’ is surrounded by all kinds of pops, scratches, slides and squeaks. If Homework builds in intensity as a live set would, this is the peak of that experience.

One of the original singles dropped ahead of Homework’s release, Alive still sounds as huge as ever. There’s a reason they name their tours after this song…

Check out the best Daft Punk song of all time to discover how they got harder, better, faster, stronger.

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Few records combine sonic innovation with veneration for what came before as succinctly as Daft Punk’s 1997 debut, Homework. The title itself implies this duality: It’s a reference to both the bedroom studio where musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo recorded their early house and techno productions, and a nod to the older artists the duo studied in preparation for their dance music breakthrough. Many of those musical ancestors are name-checked on the Homework track “Teachers,” on which Bangalter and Homem-Christo salute the (mostly) electronic music producers and DJs who inspired their work. That includes plenty of semi-obscure Chicago house music heroes and Detroit and UK techno champions, many of whom predated Daft Punk by a decade—but who were still active in the late-1990s rave scene. By tagging their peers, the members of Daft Punk were expressing solidarity with the many BIPOC artists whom they’d obsessed over for years. It was a declaration of belonging that could have come off as appropriation, had Homework not so fully elevated the genre. Bangalter and Homem-Christo might wear their influences on their sleeve, but their music transcends mere tribute; it’s some of the most unforgettable hook-laden house and techno ever put to wax. When it comes to the dance floor, if a record’s hot, that record is hot. And DJs across the globe pumped Homework’s 16 tracks, which included everything from playful filtered disco (“Revolution 909”) to throttling acid techno (“Rollin’ & Scratchin’”). Meanwhile, radio jocks and MTV programmers on the lookout for format-friendly versions of popular rave sounds swooned over Homework cuts like “Da Funk” and “Around the World,” which became breakout hits, thanks to inventive videos directed, respectively, by Spike Jonez and Michel Gondry. That near-impossible confluence of talent and timing allowed Homework to achieve its position atop every list of 1990s electronic music. As time went on, the members of Daft Punk would prove themselves worthy of every accolade Homework received as they continued to evolve from students to teachers to masters—elevating the state of electronic music every step of the way.

January 20, 1997 16 Songs, 1 hour, 14 minutes Distributed exclusively by Warner Music France / ADA France, ℗ 1997 Daft Life Ltd.

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Homework (25th Anniversary Edition) Tracklist

Daftendirekt lyrics, wdpk 83.7 fm lyrics, revolution 909 lyrics, da funk lyrics, phoenix lyrics, fresh lyrics, around the world lyrics, rollin’ & scratchin’ lyrics, teachers lyrics, high fidelity lyrics, rock'n roll lyrics, oh yeah lyrics, burnin' lyrics, indo silver club lyrics, alive lyrics, funk ad lyrics, around the world (i:cube remix) lyrics, revolution 909 (roger sanchez & junior sanchez remix) lyrics, around the world (tee's frozen sun mix) lyrics, around the world (mellow mix) lyrics, burnin' (dj sneak main mix) lyrics, around the world (kenlou mix) lyrics, burnin' (ian pooley cut up mix) lyrics, around the world (motorbass vice mix) lyrics, around the world (m.a.w. remix) lyrics, burnin’ (slam mix) lyrics, around the world (original lead on mix) lyrics, burnin’ (dj sneak mongowarrier mix) lyrics, around the world (raw dub) lyrics, teachers (extended mix) lyrics, revolution 909 (revolution accapella) lyrics.

“Homework (25th Anniversary Edition)” celebrates the twenty-fifth birthday of Daft Punk’s first studio album. This special edition of Homework contains the same songs found in the original album, as well as numerous mixes/remixes that the French duo have played in various live shows in the past.

When the original edition of Homework was first released back in January 20th, 1997, it was an instant success. Peaking at 150 on the Billboard 200 at the time, the release of Homework boosted the popularity of French progressive house music and the electronic music genre as a whole. Daft Punk’s success from this album eventually lead them to inspiring many producers to create their own electronic music, creating a rise of nu disco/house music being produced in the 2000s. Larry Fitzmaurice said on Pitchfork:

But even as the straightforward and strident club fare on Homework remains singular within Daft Punk’s catalog, the record also set the stage for the duo’s career to this very day—a massively successful and still-going ascent to pop iconography, built on the magic trick-esque ability to twist the shapes of dance music’s past to resemble something seemingly futuristic.

On February 22th, 2021, Daft Punk posted a video titled “Epilogue” on their YouTube channel, which revealed that the duo we’re going to part ways. After going silent for exactly a year since the announcement of the split, Daft Punk have posted on social media for the first time in approximately five years. Two hours later, they started an unannounced Twitch Stream in which they played footage of a 1997 concert without their helmets. Homework (25th Anniversary Edition) was released on the same day.

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Experience the electrifying birth of French house with Daft Punk's seminal debut, "Homework," now available on a double LP vinyl pressing. Released in 1997, this album introduced the world to the distinctive sound of Daft Punk, combining elements of house, funk, techno, and electro into a groundbreaking formula that captured the imagination of the global music community. "Homework" is a bold statement of artistic intent, produced independently by the duo, showcasing their innovative approach to music production with timeless tracks that have influenced countless artists and producers.

With hits like "Around the World" and "Da Funk," "Homework" achieved international success, charting across 14 countries and heralding the rise of French electronic music. The album's dynamic energy and relentless creativity not only defined a genre but also set a new standard for electronic music production. Celebrate the legacy of Daft Punk with this high-quality vinyl release, perfect for both new listeners and longtime fans wanting to revisit the roots of electronic dance music.

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