Why daft punk helmet

Onge tweeted. I also wish my parents had worn helmets and done this. Maybe this is more of a conversation to have with a therapist. Wrote another Twitter user, "Daft Punk is simply breaking up because in France you can retire at And many noted the group's place in musical history. I really wish Daft Punk had not told us they were splitting up. The way daft punk flipped the sample for one more time is still so crazy to me pic. Definitely going to miss them, but thank you guys for everything.

French musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christ, the two faces hiding beneath the Daft Punk helmets, originally got together to make music after meeting in school. They got their name from the eponymous Beach Boys song, and went after a rock and roll sound.

Their first tracks were released in compilations, and received unfavorable reviews. For the artists, the helmet became something of a statement about art. Daft Punk specifically wanted to avoid the idea of celebrityhood or stardom, hoping to place the focus squarely on their music rather than themselves. If we have to create an image, it must be an artificial image. Thomas got into the programming right away. He's such a smart guy, and he came up with some really cool stuff.

He's also a very communicative person, so that's why he has literal text on his face. It's literally sort of who he is. Guy-Man, as Tony calls his old friend, is a quieter and more introspective sort of Punk, which inspired the team to output all his communication as pictographs.

As he says, "Whether it was a heart showing up or rain coming down, there was never a word on his face, ever.

These designs originally envisioned a red visor for Thomas and a golden NASA-style one for Guy-Manuel, until it hit that the latter was impossible for photographers like Luis of The Face to shoot. We had to create another interior layer like a tight black mesh that allowed him to see through it but didn't allow people to see him.

That mesh layer had to allow the LEDs to read through it as well. Another interesting factoid? The Punk robots were originally as hairy as us human folk. Once Discovery was out of the door, Tony and team worked on elements of the live show in support of the album.

It ended with Daft Punk's Electroma, the cult art house film celebrating its 15th anniversary this year that finishes with — spoiler alert — a rather explosive ending for the robots. Of course, you can't keep a good concept down. The robots would make a return in TRON: Legacy and later music videos in updates on the original Alterian makes of Y2K, proving that Daft Punk would be forever associated with their robot guises.

While the musical DNA of Discovery is all over any retro dance or pop track with soft rock and disco elements, the album's visual impact remains harder to miss. It's easy to forget that there was little else like it on the scene when the robots first emerged in Face's February issue. In fact, the rebranding of Daft Punk as robots was a vital push behind Discovery's marketing.

As Luis explains to us, even though his Face shoot has the feel of cinema from the '70s-'80s period the Punks were borrowing sounds from, the music itself wasn't available to him during the planning stages. It was more about introducing the helmets. Not that either creative could have realised it at the time.

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