How Daft Punk Made Electronic Music Go Mainstream

Matt BeatofThe Beat Goes On,who creates abbreviated but detailed histories of legendary rock bands, looked at the enigmatic duo of Daft Punk. Beat spoke about how Daft Punk started out as a French band called Darlin', which was named after a Beach Boys song, and then subsequently used a critic's bad review of them to name their new band.

They named themselves Darlin'," after a Beach Boys song.Darlin' quickly got noticed by the record label Duophonic Records, a label owned by the band Stereolab. Duophonic hooked them up with some shows and recorded some of their songs. On May 1, 1993, Melody Maker published a review of two of their songs that referredto it as daft punky thrash."

Beat also talked about Daft Punk's style, their costumes", their recording contracts, their albums, how they broke certain boundaries while bringing electronic music to the forefront, and their eventual breakup.

Always mysterious as human beings, the world got to know Daft Punk as robots,but boy did those robots seem like human beings. Don't get it twisted- the elaboraterobot costumes weren't a gimmick- they gave Daft Punk the freedom to create whatever theheck they wanted to. Seeing them forced the listener to separate the artist fromthe music. Perhaps due to this separation, Daft Punk was able to push the boundaries of electronicmusic further than their contemporaries,especially with their live performances. Despite releasing just four studio albums, Daft Punk helped EDM becomemainstream.