61, their legitimately funky Grammy winning global hit “Get Lucky” reaching No. In the 24 years after they first ascended to the top of Dance Club Songs, Daft Punk has tracked five Hot 100 singles, with “One More Time” and “Around The World” both hitting No. (“It’s the gold standard for me,” noted Kaskade.) Artists including Kaskade, Tchami and Blond:ish have all told Billboard that Homework is the album they’d give to anyone looking to get into electronic music.
club kids hearing a singular and futuristic sound, the next generation of producers - even the ones then too young to legally enter a club - were also listening. “Da Funk” ultimately spent seven weeks on Dance Club Songs, a relatively humble run that was simultaneously a powerful announcement that many things about electronic music were evolving and that Daft Punk were key architects of this change. (Charles himself would make a reprise appearance in the video for Homeworks‘ “ Fresh,” which finds him across the country in Hollywood, where he’d since become an actor.) It was weird and clever, and not only because it showcased the song without any appearance from the famously photo-shy producers - who in the years following the release of Homework would rarely ever again show up public without their masks or robot helmets. Neither was its video: Directed by Spike Jonze, who in ’95 had also directed clips for acts including Bjork and Sonic Youth, the video follows the fairly mundane misadventures of Charles, an anthropomorphic dog with a leg injury who spends a night wandering the streets of New York on his crutches, clutching a boombox playing - you guessed it - “Da Funk.” Indeed, “Da Funk” may have been am homage to G-funk and ’70s disco funk itself, but anyone who heard it in clubs must have either consciously or intuitively understood that the slick, swaggering track was far from the same old thing. Already a mega-smash on dancefloors all over Europe, this wriggling instrumental combination of cutting-edge electronic dance and Cameo-styled funk is ripe for the openminded or anyone who is tired of the same of thing.” “This is the sound of clubland for tomorrow. “Feel the funk, kids,” Billboard‘s former dance editor Larry Flick wrote in a March 1997 issue. While few could have said so at the time, the song was of course also a blueprint for French Touch, a soon-to-be essential genre that Daft Punk were themselves then forging.ĭid “Da Funk” sound like its namesake genre as well? According to a review in this very publication, the answer was oui. While the group’s Thomas Bangalter famously said that “Da Funk” was their attempt to make something reminiscent of Warren G’s 1994 G-Funk masterpiece “Regulate,” the song was also steeped in tech-forged acid house, the famously squelchy genre that that had emerged in the ’80s upon the release of the Roland TB-303. (In ’97, AOL was the internet provider of choice, with Netscape serving as the world’s premiere browser.) The 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time: Staff Listįrom all of these acts, Daft Punk was certainly the most accurate bellwether of where club music was heading near the turn of the millennium, particularly as technology was taking a quantum leap in the Y2K-era.
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