Whether youвЂ™re talking about Bangalter and Homem-ChristoвЂ™s predilection for global-kitsch nostalgia, their canny and self-possessed sense of business savvy, or their willingness to wear their influences on their sleeve like ironed-on jean-jacket patches-it all began with Homework. Were it not for a few choice Homework tracks that pop up on 2007вЂ™s exhilarating live document Alive 2007, one might assume that Homework has been lost in the narrative thatвЂ™s formed since its release-that of Daft Punk as robot-helmeted superstar avatars, rather than as irreverent house savants.Д«ut even as the straightforward and strident club fare on Homework remains singular within Daft PunkвЂ™s catalog, the record also set the stage for the duoвЂ™s career to this very day-a massively successful and still-going ascent to pop iconography, built on the magic trick-esque ability to twist the shapes of dance musicвЂ™s past to resemble something seemingly futuristic. Human After All from 2005 favored dirty guitars and repetitive, Teutonic sloganeering, while the pair took a nostalgia trip through the history of electronic pop itself for 2013вЂ™s Random Access Memories. 2001вЂ™s Discovery was effectively electronic pop-as-Crayola box, with loads of chunky color and front-and-center vocals that carried massive mainstream appeal. In the 21 years since HomeworkвЂ™s release, Daft Punk have strayed far from its sound with globe-traversing electronic pop that, even while incorporating other elements of dance music subgenres, has more often than not kept house musicвЂ™s building blocks at armsвЂ™ length.

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