Daft Punk, the acclaimed electronic duo, has unveiled ‘Infinity Repeating’, a previously unheard track featuring Julian Casablancas, the frontman for The Strokes. This release is part of the 10th-anniversary edition of the group’s last album, ‘Random Access Memories’, initially issued a decade ago. You can listen to the track and watch the official video below.
The new edition of the album, released today, May 12th, marks the 10-year milestone with over 30 minutes of never-before-released music, including demos and outtakes from the recording sessions. One such inclusion is ‘Infinity Repeating’.
Recorded in 2013 by Daft Punk and Casablancas, the track also features members from Casablancas’ other band, The Voidz. Notably, this marks the second collaboration between Casablancas and Daft Punk on the album, following their popular track ‘Instant Crush’.
Daft Punk initially teased ‘Infinity Repeating’ to fans on May 9th. The previously unreleased track had its global debut at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on May 11th. The museum’s promoters advertised the event as an opportunity for attendees to experience the new track in an “ultra-high fidelity” and “cinematic” format, employing a sound system with more than 30 speakers.
The 10th-anniversary edition retains the original tracklist of ‘Random Access Memories’, including the hit ‘Get Lucky’, while adding studio outtakes of the album opener ‘Give Live Back To Music’, vocoder tests of ‘Lose Yourself To Dance’, and the song ‘Horizon’, previously exclusive to the Japanese version of the CD.
In related news, earlier this year, Thomas Bangalter, one half of Daft Punk, elaborated on the reasons for the duo’s split in 2021. He expressed concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence and its use in music creation, emphasising that Daft Punk’s intention was to use technology to express something profoundly human.
“We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can. We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology,” Bangalter noted. “As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.”
Following Daft Punk’s dissolution, Bangalter announced his first solo album in over 20 years, ‘Mythologies’, originally conceptualised as a ballet score and performed at Bordeaux’s Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in July of the previous year.
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