![]() “Daft Punk’s live show had gotten the attention of the Grammy producers,” current Daft Punk manager/Daft Arts partner Paul Hahn says. In full robot regalia, Daft Punk joined Kanye West onstage at the 50th Grammy Awards for a live version of his Daft Punk-sampling hit “Stronger.” It marked the first time Daft Punk had performed live on television. We live to play with clichés and to destroy or change the parameters.” Combining them produces something different and surreal, where you can’t really recall where you’ve seen this combination before. “We like to play with old memories and different ideas and influences. “The development of a subculture of uncontrolled gatherings is interesting to us,” Bangalter said. “We are free of all our record contracts, so any direction is possible.” The seeds for what would become Random Access Memories’ marketing strategy seemed already planted in the duo’s minds. “Right now we are making music in Paris,” de Homem-Christo told Stop Smiling magazine. ![]() Biz has painstakingly crafted the following timeline/oral history outlining how, step by step, key players - including Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Columbia chairman/CEO Rob Stringer, Columbia senior VP of marketing Scott Greer, band manager Paul Hahn, and publicist and Biz3 owner Kathryn Frazier - worked together on this groundbreaking campaign that has transformed Daft Punk’s fourth studio LP into 2013’s most undeniable pop-culture moment thus far.ĭaft Punk themselves first tantalize that a new release is on the horizon in a 2008 interview. With the album finally being released this Tuesday, May 21.
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