Daft Punk breaks up, shares new 8-minute video for “Epilogue”

After going Around the World for 28 years, French electronic duo Daft Punk has broken up. The band shared the news today with the release of a new 8-minute video for “Epilogue,” taken off their 2006 film Electroma. 

Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) formed in Paris in 1993, and became an international sensation with their debut album, 1997’s Homework, which featured the iconic electro-dance track “Around the World.”

Known for their unique blending of house music, electronica, and funk, Daft Punk reached even greater heights with their 2001 album Discovery, which saw the duo embrace the robotic costumes they would forever be associated with. Discovery also featured the breakout singles “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” two inescapable thumping futuristic dance tracks that would go on to influence the course of popular music for the next two decades.

The band’s long-awaited Random Access Memory album was released in 2013 with the massive single “Get Lucky” featuring Pharrell Williams. The album would go on to win two Grammys.

Watch the duo say goodbye with the video for “Epilogue,” below.