Lauded as an unparalleled useful resource for longtime followers of the robots, Gabriel Szatan’s hotly anticipated e book additionally quotes members of Daft Punk’s “interior circle.”
The “lineup” of contributors to a brand new e book 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 accordance 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 e book quotes members of the legendary robots’ “interior circle,” together with the manager group at Virgin France who developed them of their childhood and the inventive unit behind Daft Trax, their document firm fashioned 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 a variety of 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.
Extra 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, it’s essential to place as a lot emphasis on the After because the Daft,” Szatan mentioned. “We went into the challenge questioning: what if there was a brisker and extra compelling strategy 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 inventive potentialities and immense international reputation,” 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.
