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LCD Soundsystem released “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” one of their most iconic songs, almost twenty years ago. We tell you the inspiration behind this song.
LCD sound system has several gems of its own dance floorBut “Daft Punk plays at my house” It is without a doubt the New York band’s most popular song. James Murphy He released this song back in 2005, almost 20 years after its release, we tell you how this anthem came to be.
The story of the song that captured the admiration of an era
The place that Daft Punk occupied in the mid-2000s
Today we look back at the robot duo as one of the most influential projects in music, even though they are officially separated. Around 2005, Daft Punk reigned, with recent releases discovery (2001) and in March of the same year Human after all.
“Daft Punk plays at my house” was released at the end of February 2005, so LCD sound system took advantage of the popularity of French robots to catapult itself into the charts. He made us wish we all had to see the band at our house or perhaps at one of our friends’ houses.
Let’s remember around 2007 how important robots were to their tour Alive 2007, a true madness in production and mixing. This show confirmed what L said.CD sound system: Daft Punk It was the most important event of two thousand years.
James Murphy captured his passion for music and partying in a song
It turns out that the leader of LCD sound system He explained in an interview with an English media company a few years ago what motivated him to express his ideas in an extraordinary song. James Murphy He showed off his fan page as he stated: “I love Daft Punk, but I really think they’re very meaningful because they remain genderless and not something really specific.”
But the idea came to his mind like this: “I tried to get her to play at a house party. (…) I became so obsessed with what was missing in indie rock and what was present in dance music that I forgot what was in indie music and what was missing in house music.”
James thought about it and, summing up the best of both worlds, thought: “I just had this idea that someone had the same epiphany with dance music and then saved up to have Daft Punk play in their basement.”
The biggest challenge was recording a dream video clip with Daft Punk
After the song is recorded, LCD sound system were faced with the big challenge: to record a music video that would honor the videography of Daft Punk. So James Murphy He set the bar high and considered doing crazy things that didn’t end up coming true.
“I wanted to make a documentary where there was a local band playing in a basement, then us, then Daft Punk, but film it like a real rock show with crowd footage and everything. Like house parties, not many people would even know who Daft Punk is, which would be a lot of fun. It would just be the basement, Daft Punk, a few kids, a keg (beer) and a washing machine. It would be great.”
The iconic Show the pyramid Daft Punk It would come out a year and a half after this song was released. That was a funny contrast, but also a sign of the permanent ideas of LCD sound systemabout the contrast between the independent and the popular.
LCD sound system will be presented at the festival AX ceremony on Sunday, March 24, and we’ll be sure to listen to them “Daft Punk plays at my house” live, in one of the most dance-inducing songs in their setlists. You can buy tickets for the festival here.