The expected audience for their Coachella set was around 10,000-approximately 40,000 showed up.Īlive 2007-which captured the same set the next summer in Paris-served as both a de facto greatest-hits album and a referendum on the group’s commercial success. Daft Punk’s Coachella set-the giant pyramid, the laser lights-wasn’t just considered one of the most memorable in the festival’s history, it helped mark a shift in dance music’s evolution from subculture to center stage. In the intervening decade, not only had their 2001 album, Discovery, been absorbed into the global mainstream, but newer artists like David Guetta, Calvin Harris, and Kaskade were starting to repackage house music for the kind of big-tent audiences that might also go see U2 or Red Hot Chili Peppers. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to, but that, in Thomas Bangalter’s words, their ideas were crazy, and crazy is expensive. When Daft Punk was invited to play the Coachella festival in 2006, they hadn’t toured in nearly 10 years.
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