Lauded as an unparalleled useful resource for longtime followers of the robots, Gabriel Szatan’s hotly anticipated ebook additionally quotes members of Daft Punk’s “internal circle.”
The “lineup” of contributors to a brand new ebook about Daft Punk’s legacy places any music competition invoice to disgrace.
Authored by esteemed music journalist Gabriel Szatan, After Daft: The Rewiring of twenty first Century Tradition options over 100 contributors, in line with a press launch shared with EDM.com.
The sheer scope of Szatan’s topics paints an image of an encyclopedic, no-stone-unturned stomach flopper into the deepest depths of the Daft Punk mythos. The ebook quotes members of the legendary robots’ “internal circle,” together with the manager workforce at Virgin France who developed them of their youth and the artistic unit behind Daft Trax, their report firm shaped in 1997. Contributors from that period embody Pedro Winter, Daft Punk’s ex-manager and head of Ed Banger Data; Kitsuné’s Gildas Loaëc, former label supervisor of Crydamoure and Roulé; and Daniel Vangarde, Thomas Bangalter’s father.
Lauded as an unparalleled useful resource for longtime followers of Daft Punk, After Daft accommodates excerpts of greater than 250 hours of conversations. It additionally consists of insights from numerous Daft Punk’s storied collaborators, like DJ Falcon, Todd Edwards, Panda Bear and Stardust’s Alan Braxe in addition to members of the studio groups behind 2010’s timeless TRON: Legacy soundtrack.
Further contributors embody Porter Robinson, Madeon, Kavinsky, TNGHT, Disclosure, Carl Craig, Boys Noize, Annie Mac, Kevin Saunderson and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij.
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“To tally the complete scope of the A.D. period, you should place as a lot emphasis on the After because the Daft,” Szatan mentioned. “We went into the venture questioning: what if there was a brisker and extra compelling approach to body this transformative age in tradition?”
“That’s why After Daft is artist-led, to inform an genuine story by means of the eyes of those that formed it: musicians from totally different backgrounds and disciplines whose lives interacted in fascinating methods, unsung creatives who oil the business machine, in addition to numerous artists that thrived because the ceiling was raised on dance and digital music’s artistic prospects and immense international recognition,” he added.
The hardback version of After Daft: The Rewiring of twenty first Century Tradition will launch within the spring of 2024 and is now accessible for pre-order.
