Remembering Daft Punk Across The EDM Community

By now, we’re still coping with the fact that Daft Punk has split. They announced the news in their Epilogue video via YouTube this morning. This hit the electronic dance music community hard and is almost too surreal.

To Thomas Bangalter And Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Steve Aoki shared a heartfelt message on Facebook about how DP developed his own musical journey. For anyone lucky enough to attend their Alive tour, we are all very envious. Firstly, Coachella 2007 must have been the greatest experience. Their performance raised hairs and sent chills down everyone’s spines. Secondly, their unique, interstellar French electro-house sound is something we’ll never forget. Thirdly, they’re the definition of iconic.

Moreover, their music is everything to Porter Robinson. First of its kind and never duplicated, we all dropped our jaws at what we saw. The combination of anime and electronic music coming to life was spectacular.

thinking about being 11 and exploring limewire, searching “daft punk music videos” and seeing interstella 5555 piece by piece. seeing that fusion of electronic music and anime for the very first time . haahhhhhhghj damn i am crying pic.twitter.com/yb2MxzyQqV

Maybe it’s just a prank and they’re going to make the greatest comeback the world’s ever seen. We hope Tokimonsta…Glass Animals if only a comeback tour were possible.

? i hope daft punk is playing us all and makes an epic come back.

??thank you for it all, daft punk. what a band. see u on ur comeback tour in a year or two?

For the rest of us, we wish them well along with Alesso, Dillon Francis, Disclosure, and GRiZ. We thank these legends for everything they’ve given us. We’ve all resonated with their music and it’s given us life. I’ve danced my heart out to ‘One More Time’ on many occasions. These guys introduced me to electronic dance music. I’m deeply saddened that I’ll never get to see them live.