Daft Punk - Alive 2007

November 22, 2007 | Filed Under Artists, Labels, Releases |

Recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, an 18,000-capacity sports arena in Paris, on June 14th, 2007, ‘Alive 2007′ captures the exuberant multi-media spectacle of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s first hometown show in 10 years.The stage is dominated by a giant pyramid light that has lit up the band’s concerts throughout a tour that kicked off in May 2006 at California’s Coachella Festival and will draw to a close in late 2007 in Australia, somewhere they have never previously played.

From beneath their giant fluorescent triangle Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo — clad in their futuristic Hedi Slimane-designed overalls — pump out track after track tracing Daft Punk’s odyssey, shockingly now and future-perfect, telling us a story that we read with our eyes and our ears.

In little more than an hour we’re treated to the cream of the band’s three albums, ‘Homework’ (1997), ‘Discovery’ (2001) and ‘Human After All’ (2005), stretched, compressed and interwoven with astonishing grace and modernity.

As the tracks keep coming — from ‘Around The World’ to ‘Da Funk’, from ‘One More Time’ to ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ — an entire universe is gradually built up, a universe that harnesses every available technological opportunity to enrapture its audience. The spirit of this happy event is exactly what ‘Alive 2007′ — the band’s second live album after the first one recorded in Birmingham in 1997 — aims to capture: to be relived or encountered for the first time.

After such a long hiatus from playing live, the group admits it was blown away by the response to the shows, “We pretty much felt it everywhere, which was fascinating,” Bangalter says. “It was a big deal each time. It’s a big deal for us each time, too, which is what keeps it fresh.”

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