History Trivia / DaftPunk

* TheWikiRule: [[http://daftpunk.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Daft Punk Wiki]].

* CreatorBacklash: The duo doesn't appear to look back on their remixes for other artists very fondly, as they ceased doing them after releasing their take on Music/FranzFerdinand's "Take Me Out" in 2004.

** It's been largely rumored that they were working on an album in late 2019, and leaked papers of producing transcripts in early 2020 confirmed that. Sadly, it was reported in late 2020 that the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic caused them to lose interest in recording, and they split in February 2021 due to wanting to go in different directions creatively.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: The duo consider ''Human After All'' to be their best work. Quite a few fans disagree, as they consider many of the album's tracks to be overly repetitive and having little substance outside of a few cuts.

* ActingInTheDark: Giorgio Moroder wasn't allowed to listen to Giorgio by Moroder while recording his monologue for the track, and didn't get to hear it until seven or eight months afterwards.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Or in this case, Enforced Method ''Recording''. While recording Giorgio Moroder's story for ''Giorgio by Moroder'', Giorgio spoke into three different microphones that each represented the forties/fifties, sixties/seventies, and the present day/future. The sound engineer was adamant that while most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between each microphone, Thomas and Guy-Manuel could.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: The duo consider ''Human After All'' to be their best work. [[FanonDiscontinuity Quite a few fans disagree]], as they consider many of the tracks to be overly repetitive and having little substance outside of a few cuts.
* PlayingAgainstType: Happens a lot with their collaborators on ''Random Access Memories''.
** Music/GiorgioMoroder, who is primarily known for his disco work in the 70s, steps up to the microphone to do a spoken-word monologue about his life for "Giorgio by Moroder".
** Julian Casablancas steps out of his alt-rock comfort zone that he's used to as the frontman for Music/TheStrokes to create a very slow and relaxed, but melancholic electronic in "Instant Crush" that incorporates gratuitous use of autotuned vocals and a short guitar solo.
** Panda Bear's feature on "Doin' It Right" is a far cry from his work with Music/AnimalCollective, being a rather simplistic electronic pop track.
** For the duo themselves, Daft Punk ended up producing four tracks on Music/KanyeWest's sixth album ''Yeezus'', all of which are hard-hitting hip-hop beats that contrast greatly with their solo work.

** Guy-Manuel wanted "Giorgio by Moroder" to be 15 minutes long and for RAM to be a triple disc release.
** Music/GiorgioMoroder was interesting in providing his own production to Giorgio by Moroder when he was contacted by Daft Punk to be a part of it, but the duo was merely interested in recording his life story monologue.

* OldShame: The duo doesn't appear to look back on their remixes for other artists very fondly, as they ceased doing them after releasing their take on Music/FranzFerdinand's "Take Me Out" in 2004.

** Music/GiorgioMoroder, who is primarily known for his disco work in the 70s, steps up to the microphone to do a spoken-word monologue about his life for ''Giorgio by Moroder''.
** Julian Casablancas steps out of his alt-rock comfort zone that he's used to as the frontman for Music/TheStrokes to create a very slow and relaxed, but melancholic electronic tune that uses gratuitous use of autotune.
** Panda Bear's feature on ''Doin' It Right'' is a far cry from his work with Music/AnimalCollective, being a rather simplistic electronic pop track.
** For the duo themselves, Daft Punk ended up producing the first 3 tracks on Music/KanyeWest's sixth album ''Yeezus'', all of which are hard-hitting hip-hop beats that contrast greatly with their solo work.

** Music/ToddEdwards is listed as one of Daft Punk's inspirations in their song "Teachers", amongst other Chicago house [=DJs=]. Edwards would later co-produce and sing on both ''Face to Face'' and ''Fragments of Time''.
** Panda Bear was a big fan of ''Homework'', as he bonded with his brother while listening to it in his early life. He later got to provide vocals for ''Doin' it Right''.

* ReclusiveArtist: Appearance-wise, at least. Although photos of their faces very early on in their career do indeed exist, most of the time, they always cover up their faces with something, usually their iconic robot helmets. The band have also gone on record saying that they use the robot image to keep their Daft Punk and personal lives separated.

** Julian Casablancas, steps out of his alt-rock comfort zone that he's used to as the frontman for Music/TheStrokes to create a very slow and relaxed, but melancholic electronic tune that uses gratuitous use of autotune.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: The duo consider ''Human After All'' to be their best work. [[FanonDiscontinuity Fans disagree]].

* PropRecycling: The animatronic puppet used in the clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdWHFwmd2o "Technologic"]] is Chucky's skeleton from the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' movie ''Seeds of Chucky''.

** Creator/GiorgioMoroder was interesting in providing his own production to Giorgio by Moroder when he was contacted by Daft Punk to be a part of it, but the duo was merely interested in recording his life story monologue.

* RecycledSet: The set that Daft Punk used for their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr12u1tk_rM Random Access Memories unboxing]] was later used again by sony in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQUpg795iBo PS4 unboxing]].

** It's been largely rumored that they were working on an album in late 2019, and leaked papers of producing transcripts in early 2020 confirmed that. Sadly, it was reported in late 2020 that the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic caused them to lose interest in recording, and they split in February 2021 due to wanting to go in different directions creatively. Guy-Man stated that he wants to create a sequel ConceptAlbum to ''Homework'' under the name "REVISION", with previous Daft Punk collaborators and modern-day funk and [=RnB=] musicians, feeling that ''Random Access Memories'' didn't go far enough with his vision. Meanwhile, Thomas has expressed interest in creating more underground club music for himself and other musicians, wanting to keep Daft Punk's mystique.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It's been largely rumored that they were working on an album in late 2019, and leaked papers of producing transcripts in early 2020 confirmed that. Sadly, it was reported in late 2020 that the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic caused them to lose interest in recording, and they split in February 2021. Guy-Man stated that he wanted to created a ConceptAlbum, feeling that "Random Access Memories" didn't go far enough with his vision. He wanted "Giorgio by Moroder" to be 15 minutes long and RAM to be a triple disc release.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It's been largely rumored that they were working on an album in late 2019, and leaked papers of producing transcripts in early 2020 confirmed that. Sadly, it was reported in late 2020 that the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic caused them to lose interest in recording, and they split in February 2021.

* BeamMeUpScotty: The article quote about the duo's [[BreakupBreakout previous band]] [[AppropriatedAppellation in which the duo decided to use as a name for]], wasn't "a bunch of daft punk", but "a daft punky thrash". And this quote in question uses the word "t'''h'''rash", not "trash".

** Pictures and fanart of the duo without their helmets also seems to be a common fixture in the online (re: Tumblr) fandom, despite this seeming to go against what Daft Punk want.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Music Sounds Better With You", the only song from Bangalter's one-time side project Stardust, fell into this for a long time Despite the song being a massive hit internationally (indeed, the song charted ''higher'' than most of Daft Punk's singles), the full song took until 2019 to get a digital release, alongside a repressing of the twelve-inch single.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Music Sounds Better With You", the only song from Bangalter's one-time side project Stardust, has fallen into this. Despite the song being a massive hit internationally (indeed, the song charted ''higher'' than most of Daft Punk's singles), the full song has never been officially released digitally, and the single's physical releases are in short supply.