35 minutes of unheard Daft Punk demos will be released for the 10th anniversary of 'Random Access Memories'
Daft Punk may have disbanded back in 2021, but there's still more on the way for fans of the highly influential robot dance duo.
That's sadly not coming in the form of a new album, but there will be 35 minutes of unreleased demos and outtakes featured in the 10th Anniversary Edition of Random Access Memories, which is set to be released on May 12.
Random Access Memories marked the duo's entry into the world of disco, drawing upon the music that they loved growing up to create one of 2013's greatest and most critically acclaimed albums. It was so critically acclaimed that it won them the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2014.
The album featured collaborations from musical titans like Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, who both contributed to the hit song 'Get Lucky'. That song splashed onto the Billboard Hot 100 in 2013 and stayed there for 29 weeks, peaking at #2 and becoming one of the year's biggest songs.
If the success of 'Get Lucky' and the album as a whole is any indication, there have to be some forgotten gems buried in the demos. We can't wait to hear what didn't quite make the cut the first time around.
Daft Punk's story has been traced in a new book by Disco Pogo. The magazine's predecessor Jockey Slut published Daft Punk’s first ever interview back in 1994, their first ever magazine cover and featured them on the line-ups of many of their Bugged Out nights over the years.
The 250 page hardback book, titled ‘Daft Punk – We Were The Robots’, covers the duo's earliest days right up to their unexpected split in February 2021. The book will ship in Spring and is available to order here.
