History Music / DaftPunk

* AerithAndBob: Their names are Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo... and Thomas Bangalter.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Behold: ''Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo''

* FreakLabAccident: [[BlatantLies Legend tells]] that when the pair were working on a sampler on September 9th, 1999, at exactly 9:09 AM, their studio exploded. When they came to, they were robots.

* FridgeBrilliance
** The ''Alive 2007'' album. Beginning it with Two Robot voices Going back and forth between "Robot" and "Human" [[spoiler:And ending it with a Huge Buildup to "Human after all"]].
** Having "One More Time" sampled in the Encore.
** Also the Encore, Combining "Music Sounds Better with You" and "Together".
** The video for "Around the World" seems like a random Halloween-themed number until you realize that each costume is a different musical instrument. The track stars (with the false heads) are the bass, the skeletons are the guitar, the mummies are the drums, the swimsuited women are the keyboards, and the robots are the vocals. And they're dancing around a vinyl record. The stairs are the high and low notes, which go with the track stars.
** The huge ''HBFS'' sample-solo while performing with Kanye at the 2008 Grammys.

* SampledUp

* FreakLabAccident: Legend tells that when the pair were working on a sampler on September 9th, 1999, at exactly 9:09 AM, their studio exploded. When they came to, they were robots.

One of the most popular electronic bands ever (along with {{Kraftwerk}} and a few others). Formed in 1993 by Frenchmen Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, they basically invented French House music and have done much to make electronic music mainstream.

* {{Homage}}: There's a reason the first album was called ''[[{{Kraftwerk}} Homework]]''. Further, one of the songs on ''Human After All'' is called "Robot Rock" -- Kraftwerk's preferred term for techno.

* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: All the singles from ''Human After All'' ([[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Humanafterall_single_3593.JPEG "Human After All"]], [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Technologic_DaftPunk_single_2487.jpg "Technologic"]], [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RobotRock_DaftPunk_single_8374.jpg "Robot Rock"]], and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Primetimeofyourlife_5655.jpg "The Prime Time of Your Life"]]) all have similar cover art: a picture on a television screen. They also all have the group's name in the top left and the song title in the top right, all in the same font and color.

* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: All the singles from ''Human After All'' ("Human After All", "Technologic", "Robot Rock", and "The Prime Time of Your Life") all have similar cover art: a picture on a television screen.

* AudienceParticipationSong: A lot of the songs off Alive 2007, most notably when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3OXE8EmZoFM#t=91s "One More Time"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lbyB046avmg#t=73s "Da Funk"]] come into play. In both a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] move on the part of the crowd, they sing along to the instrumental "Da Funk" by "lalala'ing" it.

* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: All the singles from ''Human After All'' ("Human After All", "Technologic", "Robot Rock", and "The Prime Time of Your Life") all have similar cover art: a picture on a telvision screen.

** And of course, "Prime Time of Your Life", which is an extremely weird, quite graphic video involving [[spoiler: a girl with anorexia peeling all her skin off bloodlessly and dying.]]

* RockOpera: ''Interstella 5555'' and ''Discovery''.

* FakeOutFadeOut: "Derezzed", from the [[TRONLegacy TRON: Legacy]] soundtrack.

* SignatureSong: Interestingly, while the duo themselves seems to use "Alive" as this (judging by how often it's played/sampled live, and the names of their biggest tours [Alive 1997 and Alive 2007]), "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", is possibly the better example.

* NotableMusicVideos: Pretty much all of ''Discovery'''s music videos, which were clips from {{Interstella5555}}.

* ListSong: At least two. "Teachers", from Homework, is a list of musicians that are their influences, all described as being "in the house".

** "Technologic", from Human After All, list things that can be done with technology, most ending in "it".

* NotableMusicVideos

* EpicRiff
** The solo in "Aerodynamic".
** The solo in "Digital Love".
** "Robot Rock"

Their last project was the score for ''TronLegacy''. They ''do'' appear in the movie as the [[http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=173747442648090 personified versions of media player programs.]]

** The two appearing as the End of Line [=DJs=] in ''TronLegacy''. Also counts as OneSceneWonder.

** During the pre-production of ''TronLegacy'', they actually met the Director at a Los Angeles pancake house... while wearing their robot suits!

** And of course, their incarnations in ''TronLegacy''. The usual robot getups fit perfectly with the scenery anyway.

They collaborated with the legendary LeijiMatsumoto to create an animated film out of their album ''Discovery'' called ''[[{{Interstella 5555}} Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem]]''. They also created a surealistic art-house film called ''Electroma'', which basically tells the origin of their robotic alter egos.

They've released a number of extremely popular singles, such as "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", "Around the World", and "One More Time". They've been sampled numerous times, most noticeably "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by KanyeWest for his song "Stronger".

They also pull off one of the best live shows in existence by mashing and mixing together their songs... while playing in a glowing LCD screen pyramid in front of a glowing honeycomb. While dressed as robots. (No, really, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pujy2kVECZk see for]] [[http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=KBQ3oVcV4YE yourself]].)