Daft Punk Is Staying at My House, My House
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It was 1994, and legendary techno duo Slam were booked to play an event in Disneyland Paris. “We had a couple of days to kill, and a friend got in touch to say he knew these two young French musicians who wanted to give us music they’d made.”
The “young French musicians” Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo were still in their teens at that point, and Daft Punk was under a year old. Stuart McMillan distinctly remembers hearing their 4-track demo for the first time; “We were blown away!”
Composed of Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan, Slam launched independent electronic record label Soma in 1991. It had a very DIY ethos. Along with manager Dave Clarke, they’d overseen a number of influential releases. It was Slam’s own track ‘Positive Education’ that piqued Thomas and Guy-Manuel’s interest. They recognised Slam as kindred spirits, and Soma as the label they wanted to launch Daft Punk, and that's when things went really wild.
This is the story of Daft Punk's earliest beginnings on Glasgow's techno scene.
Narration written by Kirstin Innes Narrated by Kate Dickie Mixed by Alison Rhynas Produced by Victoria McArthur
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| 0:39.0 | All right there, fellow podcast lovers. |
| 0:42.0 | This is seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm your host |
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| 1:01.2 | On February the 22nd, 2021, Daft Punk announced their breakup in an 8 minute sign-off video. |
| 1:09.0 | Their beginning was dramatic too, but it was a different kind of drama. It involved |
| 1:16.1 | Disney Land Paris, a four-track demo, and three guys from Glasgow. This is the |
| 1:22.3 | story of how the most influential duo in pop music found their feet. |
| 1:27.0 | If all the people that are the Renfrew Ferry for the Daft Punk gig that said they were then |
| 1:31.4 | we've been in Hamden Park, you oh I was at that gig I was at that |
| 1:35.2 | gig but you know reality is it was 400 people that were there even at that point we were |
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