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Homework is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk , released on 17 January 1997 with Virgin Records . Homework' s success brought worldwide attention to French house music. According to The Village Voice , the album revived house music and departed from the Eurodance formula. The duo produced the tracks without plans to release an album. After working on projects that were intended to be separate singles over five months, they considered the material good enough for an album.

Commercially successful, Homework appeared in 14 national charts, peaking at number 150 on the United States Billboard 200 and at number 37 on the Australian Albums Chart. By February 2001, the album had sold more than two million copies worldwide and received several gold and platinum certifications. Overall Homework received positive critical response. The album features singles that had a significant impact in the French house and global dance music scenes. These include the US Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play number-one singles " Da Funk " and " Around the World ", the latter of which reached number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.

1 Recording history
2 Structure
3 Track listing
4 References

Recording history [ ]

In 1993, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo presented a demo to Stuart Macmillan of Slam at a rave in EuroDisney. The contents of the cassette eventually saw release on the single " The New Wave ", which was released on April 11, 1994 on Slam's Soma Quality Recordings label. The record also contained the final mix of the track "The New Wave" entitled "Alive".

" Da Funk " and " Rollin' & Scratchin' " were released as a single under the Soma label in 1995. The tracks were then utilized by The Chemical Brothers in DJ sets at The Heavenly Social in London. During the same year, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons requested that the duo remix their single "Life Is Sweet" and open for The Chemical Brothers' tour in the United Kingdom. The ensuing popularity of Daft Punk's singles led to their signing with Virgin Records in September 1996. Their departure from Soma was noted by Richard Brown of the Glasgow-based label. "We were obviously sad to lose them to Virgin but they had the chance to go big, which they wanted, and it's not very often that a band has that chance after two singles. We're happy for them."

Although Virgin held exclusive distribution rights over Daft Punk’s material, the duo remain the owners of their master recordings through the Daft Trax label. Bangalter expressed that "To be free, we had to be in control. To be in control, we had to finance what we were doing ourselves. The main idea was to be free." [7] Daft Punk discussed their method with Spike Jonze , director of the "Da Funk" music video. He noted that "They were doing everything based on how they wanted to do it. As opposed to, 'oh we got signed to this record company, we gotta use their plan.' They wanted to make sure they never had to do anything that would make them feel bummed on making music." In regards to the duo's creative control and freedom, Bangalter said:

“

We've got much more control than money. You can't get everything. We live in a society where money is what people want, so they can't get the control. We chose. Control is freedom. People say we're control freaks, but control is controlling your destiny without controlling other people. We're not trying to manipulate other people, just controlling what we do ourselves. Controlling what we do is being free. People should stop thinking that an artist that controls what he does is a bad thing. A lot of artists today are just victims, not having control, and they're not free. And that's pathetic. If you start being dependent on money, then money has to reach a point to fit your expenses.

”

Daft Punk worked to record other tracks, including " Revolution 909 " and " Around the World ". The album was mixed and recorded in their own studio, Daft House in Paris , France. It was mastered by Nilesh Patel at the London studio The Exchange.

Virgin re-released "Da Funk" with the B-side " Musique " in 1996, before the debut of Homework . Bangalter later stated that the B-side "was never intended to be on the album, and in fact, 'Da Funk' as a single has sold more units than Homework , so more people own it anyways than they would if it had been on the album. It is basically used to make the single a double-feature."

Structure [ ]

Daft Punk produced the tracks included in Homework without a plan to release an album. Bangalter stated, "It was supposed to be just a load of singles. But we did so many tracks over a period of five months that we realized that we had a good album." [1] The duo set the order of the tracks to cover the four sides of a two-disc vinyl LP. [2] De Homem-Christo remarked, "There was no intended theme because all the tracks were recorded before we arranged the sequence of the album. The idea was to make the songs better by arranging them the way we did; to make it more even as an album." [2] The name Homework , Bangalter explained, relates to "the fact that we made the record at home, very cheaply, very quickly, and spontaneously, trying to do cool stuff." [3]

"Daftendirekt" is an excerpt of a live performance recorded at the first I Love Techno party in Ghent, Belgium. [4] It served as the introduction to Daft Punk's live shows and was used to begin the album. [2] Janet Jackson sampled "Daftendirekt" on her song "So Much Betta", which was included in her tenth studio album, Discipline , in 2008. [5] Homework' s following track, "WDPK 83.7 FM", is a tribute to FM radio in the US. [6] The next song, " Revolution 909 " is a reflection on the French government's stance on dance music. [2] [7]

"Revolution 909" is followed by " Da Funk ", which carries elements of funk and acid music. [8] According to Andrew Asch of the Boca Raton News , the song's composition "relies on a bouncy funk guitar to communicate its message of dumb fun." [9] Bangalter expressed that "Da Funk"'s theme involved the introduction of a simple, unusual element that becomes acceptable and moving over time. [10] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine complimented the song as "unrelenting", [11] and Bob Gajarsky of Westnet called it "a beautiful meeting of Chic (circa "Good Times", sans vocals) and the 90s form of electronica." [12] The song appeared on the soundtrack for the 1997 film The Saint and was placed at number 18 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s" list. [13] "Phoenix" combines elements of gospel music and house music. [2] The duo considered "Fresh" to be breezy and light with a comical structure. [14] Ian Mathers of Stylus Magazine criticized the song, stating that it "doesn’t feel like the beach just because of the lapping waves heard in the background." [15]

The single " Around the World " carries influences of Gershon Kingsley 's hit "Popcorn". [8] Its music video was directed by the Academy Award-winning French filmmaker Michel Gondry, who compared the track's bassline to that of "Good Times" by Chic. [16] Chris Power of BBC Music named it "one of the decade’s catchiest singles". He stated that it was "a perfect example of Daft Punk’s sound at its most accessible: a post-disco boogie bassline, a minimalist sprinkling of synthetic keyboard melody and a single, naggingly insistent hook." [17] Ian Mathers of Stylus Magazine commented that "there is no way you’d want to have a Homework without 'Around The World'." [15] The track "Teachers" is a tribute to several of Daft Punk's house music influences, including future collaborators Romanthony , DJ Sneak and Todd Edwards . [18] The song "Oh Yeah" features DJ Deelat and DJ Crabbe. "Indo Silver Club" features a sample of "Hot Shot" by Karen Young . [4] Prior to its inclusion on Homework , "Indo Silver Club" was released as a single on the Soma Quality Recordings label in two parts. [19] The single lacked an artist credit in the packaging [19] and was thought to have been created by the nonexistent producers Indo Silver Club. [20] The final track, "Funk Ad", is a reversed clip of "Da Funk". [2]

Track listing

Standard Edition
No.	Title	Length
1.	" "	2:44
2.	" "	0:28
3.	" "	5:35
4.	" "	5:28
5.	" "	4:57
6.	" "	4:04
7.	" "	7:09
8.	" "	7:28
9.	" "	2:53
10.	" "	6:02
11.	" "	7:33
12.	" "	2:01
13.	" "	6:54
14.	" "	4:34
15.	" "	5:16
16.	" "	0:51

References [ ]

↑ James (2003), p. 269.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Warner, Jennifer. "Interview with Daft Punk" . p. 3. DMA . About.com . Retrieved on 30 March 2007.
↑ Nickson, Chris (June 1997) Daft Punk: Parlez-vous da funk? . CMJ New Music Monthly (46) (CMJ Network) p. 10. ISSN 1074-6978 . Retrieved 31 January 2013.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Homework ( liner notes ). Daft Punk . Virgin Records , a division of EMI Group . 42609. 1997.
↑ Discipline (Booklet). Janet Jackson . Island Records , a division of [[wikipedia:The Island Def Jam Music Group]|The Island Def Jam Music Group]]. 2008.
↑ Di Perna, Alan (April 2001). "We Are The Robots", Pulse! . pp. 65–69.
↑ Warner, Jennifer. "Interview with Daft Punk" . p. 2. DMA . About.com . Retrieved on 10 February 2012.
↑ 8.0 8.1 Collin, Matthew (August 1997). "Do You Think You Can Hide From Stardom?" . Mixmag . Retrieved on 6 March 2007.
↑ Asch, Andrew (18 December 1997). "Daft Punk smashes charts with simplicity" . Boca Raton News . Retrieved on 1 May 2012.
↑ Daft Punk audio commentary for "Da Funk" music video , The Work of Director Spike Jonze (2003).
↑ Cinquemani, Sal (2 November 2002). "Daft Punk – Homework" . Slant Magazine . Retrieved on 1 May 2012.
↑ Gajarsky, Bob (28 April 1997). "Daft Punk, Homework" . Westnet. Retrieved on 1 May 2012.
↑ Ryan Dombal (3 September 2009). "Staff Lists: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01" . Pitchfork Media . Retrieved on 10 February 2012.
↑ D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes . Virgin Records. 1999.
↑ 15.0 15.1 Mathers, Ian (9 May 2005). "Daft Punk: Homework – Playing God" . Stylus Magazine . Retrieved on 1 May 2012.
↑ Gondry, Michel (2003). The Work of Director Michel Gondry companion book. Palm Pictures . Retrieved on 4 May 2012.
↑ Power, Chris (5 January 2010). "Review of Daft Punk – Homework" . BBC Music . British Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved on 1 May 2012.
↑ Gill, Chris (1 May 2001). ROBOPOP . Remix Magazine . Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
↑ 19.0 19.1 Indo Silver Club (liner notes). Daft Punk. Soma Quality Recordings. SOMA 035.
↑ Silcott, Mireille (3 April 1997). "Personality punks" . Montreal Mirror . Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved on 3 August 2011.

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Daft Punk ’s Homework is, in its pure existence, a study in contradictions. The debut album from Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo arrived in 1997, right around the proliferation of big-beat and electronica—a twin-headed hydra of dance music fads embraced by the music industry following the commercialization of early ’90s rave culture—but when it came to presumptive contemporaries from those pseudo-movements, Homework shared Sam Goody rack space and not much else. Daft Punk’s introduction to the greater world also came at a time when French electronic music was gaining international recognition, from sturdy discotheque designs to jazzy, downtempo excursions—music that sounded miles away from Homework ’s rude, brutalist house music.

In the 21 years since Homework ’s release, Daft Punk have strayed far from its sound with globe-traversing electronic pop that, even while incorporating other elements of dance music subgenres, has more often than not kept house music’s building blocks at arms’ length. 2001’s Discovery was effectively electronic pop-as-Crayola box, with loads of chunky color and front-and-center vocals that carried massive mainstream appeal. Human After All from 2005 favored dirty guitars and repetitive, Teutonic sloganeering, while the pair took a nostalgia trip through the history of electronic pop itself for 2013’s Random Access Memories . Were it not for a few choice Homework tracks that pop up on 2007’s exhilarating live document Alive 2007 , one might assume that Homework has been lost in the narrative that’s formed since its release—that of Daft Punk as robot-helmeted superstar avatars, rather than as irreverent house savants.

But even as the straightforward and strident club fare on Homework remains singular within Daft Punk’s catalog, the record also set the stage for the duo’s career to this very day—a massively successful and still-going ascent to pop iconography, built on the magic trick-esque ability to twist the shapes of dance music’s past to resemble something seemingly futuristic. Whether you’re talking about Bangalter and Homem-Christo’s predilection for global-kitsch nostalgia, their canny and self-possessed sense of business savvy, or their willingness to wear their influences on their sleeve like ironed-on jean-jacket patches—it all began with Homework .

It couldn’t possibly make more sense that a pair of musicians whose most recent album sounds like a theme park ride through pop and electronic music’s past got their big break at Disneyland. It was 1993, and schoolboy friends Bangalter and Homem-Christo’s rock band with future Phoenix guitarist Laurent Brancowitz, Darlin’—named after a track from the 1967 Beach Boys album Wild Honey that the three shared an affinity for—had disbanded after a year of existence that included a few songs released on Stereolab ’s Duophonic label. (Melody Maker writer Dave Jennings notoriously referred to their songs as possessing “a daft punky thrash,” which led to the pair assuming the Daft Punk moniker.)

While attending a rave in Paris, Bangalter and Homem-Christo had a chance encounter with Glasgow DJ/producer Stuart McMillan, the co-founder of the Soma Recordings dance label; like any aspiring musicians would, they gave him a demo tape of early Daft Punk music. The following year Soma released Daft Punk’s debut single “The New Wave,” a booming and acid-tinged instrumental that would later evolve into Homework cut “Alive.”

A follow-up, “Da Funk” b/w “Rollin’ & Scratchin’,” hit shops in 1995; according to a Muzik profile two years later, its initial 2,000-platter pressing was “virtually ignored” until rave-electronica bridge-gap veterans the Chemical Brothers started airing out its A-side during DJ sets. A major-label bidding war ensued, with Virgin as the victor which re-released “Da Funk” as a proper single in 1996 with non- Homework track “Musique” as its B-side. During this time, Bangalter and Homem-Christo casually worked on the 16 tunes that would make up Homework in the former’s bedroom, utilizing what The Guardian ’s Ben Osborne referred to in 2001 as “ low technology equipment ”—two sequencers, a smattering of samplers, synths, drum machines, and effects, with an IOMEGA zip drive rounding out their setup.

Bangalter and Homem-Christo’s work ethic while assembling the bulk of Homework was of the type that makes sloths appear highly efficient by comparison: no more than eight hours a week, over the course of five months. “We have not spent much time on Homework ,” Bangalter casually bragged to POP . “The main thing is that it sounds good… We have no need to make music every day.” The songs were crafted with the intention of being released as singles (“We do not really want to make albums,” Bangalter claimed in the same interview), Homework ’s eventual sequencing a literal afterthought after the pair realized they had enough material to evenly fill four sides of two vinyl platters. “Balance,” the pair said in unison when asked about Homework ’s format-specific sequencing in Dance Music Authority following the album’s release. “It is done for balance.”

Indeed, Homework is practically built to be consumed in side-long chunks; taking the album in at a single 75-minute listen can feel like running a 5K right after eating an entire pizza. Its A-side kicks off with the patient build of “Daftendirekt”—itself a live-recording excerpt of introductory music used during a Daft Punk set at 1995’s I Love Techno festival in Ghent—and concludes with the euphoric uplift of “Phoenix”; the B-side opens with the literal oceanic washes of “Fresh” before stretching its legs with the loopy, Gershon Kingsley-interpolating “Around the World” and the screeching fist-pump anthem “Rollin’ & Scratchin’.” The third side keeps things light with the flashy, instructional “Teachers” before getting truly twisted on “Rock’n Roll,” and the fourth side takes a few rubbery detours before landing on the full-bodied “Alive”—the thicker and meaner final form of “The New Wave”—and, quixotically, a slight and rewound “Da Funk” return, aptly titled “Funk Ad.”

Bangalter explained to POP that the title of Homework carries a few meanings: “You always do homework in the bedroom,” he stated, referencing the album’s homespun origins before elaborating on the didactic exercise that creating the album represented: “We see it as a training for our upcoming discs. We would as well have been able to call it Lesson or Learning .” That instructional nature is reflexive when it comes to listeners’ presumptive relationship with the album, as Homework practically represents a how-to for understanding and listening to house music.

Nearly every track opens with a single sonic element—more often than not, that steady 4/4 rhythm inextricably tied to house music—adding every successive element of the track patiently, like a played-in-reverse YouTube video showcasing someone taking apart a gadget to see what’s inside. Such a pedagogic approach can have its pitfalls; there’s always a risk of coming across as too rigid, and Daft Punk arguably fell victim to such dull, fussy didacticism later in their careers. But they sidestep such follies on Homework by way of the purely pleasurable music they carefully assembled, piece-by-piece, for whoever was listening.

Under the umbrella of house music, Homework incorporates a variety of sounds snatched from various musical subgenres—G-funk’s pleasing whine, the cut-up vocal-sample style of proto-UK garage made popular by frequent Daft Punk collaborator Todd Edwards , disco’s delicious synths and glittery sweep—to craft a true musical travelogue that also hinted at the widescreen sonic scope they’d take later in their careers. Above all, the album represents a love letter to black American pop music that’s reverberated through Daft Punk’s career to date—from Janet Jackson ’s sample of “Daftendirekt” on her 2008 Discipline track “So Much Betta” to Will.i.am’s failed attempt to remix “Around the World” the year previous, as well as the duo’s continued collaborations with artists ranging from Pharrell to Kanye West and the Weeknd .

The spirit of house music’s Midwestern originators is also literally and musically invoked throughout. Over the winding house-party groove of “Teachers,” Daft Punk pay homage to their formative influences, ranging from George Clinton and Dr. Dre to Black house and techno pioneers like Lil Louis, DJ Slugo, and Parris Mitchell—and in a meta twist, the song’s structure itself is a literal homage to Mitchell’s 1995 Dance Mania! single “Ghetto Shout Out,” an interpolation clearly telegraphed in the middle of Daft Punk’s astounding contribution to BBC’s Essential Mix series in 1997 .

Alongside Daft Punk’s preoccupations with American popular music, Homework also carries a very specific and politically pointed evocation of their native Paris in “Revolution 909,” the fourth and final single released from Homework that doubled as a critique of anti-rave measures taken by the French government after Jacques Chirac assumed power in 1995. “I don’t think it’s the music they’re after—it’s the parties,” Homem-Christo told Dance Music Authority , with Bangalter adding, “They pretend [the issue is] drugs, but I don’t think it’s the only thing. There’s drugs everywhere, but they probably wouldn’t have a problem if the same thing was going on at a rock concert, because that’s what they understand. They don’t understand this music which is really violent and repetitive, which is house; they consider it dumb and stupid.”

“Revolution 909” opens with ambient club noise, followed by the intrusion of police sirens and intimidating megaphone’d orders to “stop the music and go home.” The accompanying Roman Coppola-helmed music video was even more explicit in depicting the frequent clash between ravers and law enforcement that marked dance music’s rise to the mainstream in the early-to-mid-’90s; amidst a kitschy instructional video on making tomato sauce, a pair of cops attempt to disperse a rave, a young woman escaping one of their grasps after he becomes distracted by a tomato sauce stain on his own lapel.

It’s been rumored, but never quite confirmed, that Bangalter himself appears in the video for “Revolution 909”—a slice of speculation gesturing towards the fact that Daft Punk’s Homework era was the time in which the duo began embracing anonymity. The now-iconic robot helmets wouldn’t be conceived of until the Discovery era, and the magazine stories that came during Daft Punk’s pre- Homework days were typically accompanied by a fresh-faced photo of the pair; during Homework ’s promotional cycle, however, they donned a variety of masks to obscure their visages, including frog and pig-themed disguises .

In conversation with Simon Reynolds for The New York Times in 2013, the pair cited Brian De Palma’s glam-rock masterpiece Phantom of the Paradise as artistic inspiration for their decision to retain visual anonymity, and Daft Punk’s press-shy tendencies (since Homework , the interviews they’ve chosen to take part in have been few and far between) are firmly situated in a long tradition of letting the music do the talking in dance culture—from the sci-fi evasiveness of Drexciya and Aphex Twin ’s relative reclusiveness to the preferred reticence of Burial and his contemporaries in the UK bass scene.

But refusing to turn themselves into rock stars upon Homework ’s release also afforded Daft Punk a crucial element that has undoubtedly aided their perpetual ascent to the present-day: control. Retaining a sense of anonymity was but one of the conditions that the pair struck with Virgin upon signing to the label before Homework ’s release; while the music they released under the label (before signing to Columbia in 2013) was licensed exclusively to Virgin, they owned it through their own Daft Trax production and management company.

But Homework proved influential in other, more explicitly musical ways. G-house, an emergent dance subgenre in the mid-2010s dominated by acts like French duo Amine Edge & Dance, borrows liberally from Daft Punk’s own musical mash of hip-hop’s tough sounds and house music’s pounding appeal; the dirty bloghouse bruisers of Parisian collective Ed Banger—founded by Pedro Winter aka Busy P, who acted as the group’s manager until 2008—would literally not exist were it not for Homework , and that goes double for the party-hardy bloghouse micro-movement of the mid-late 2000s, which Ed Banger’s artists practically dominated. Parisian duo Justice , in particular, owe practically the entirety of their 2007 landmark † to the scraping tension of “Rollin’ & Scratchin’.”

It’s tempting, too, to tie a connective thread between Homework and the brash sounds that proliferated during the peak heyday of the financial descriptor-cum-music genre known as EDM; close your eyes while listening to “Alive”’s big-tent sweep and try not to imagine the tune destroying a festival crowd. But for all of Homework ’s aggressive charms, it’s also retained a homespun intimacy in comparison to how positively widescreen Daft Punk’s music became afterwards. “We focus on the illusion because giving away how it’s done instantly shuts down the sense of excitement and innocence,” Bangalter told Pitchfork in 2013, and the fact that two Beach Boys fans fiddling around in their bedroom could conceive of something so generously in-your-face and playful as Homework might still stand as Daft Punk’s greatest illusion yet.

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Homework (Daft Punk album)

Homework

Released

20 January 1997 (Europe)
25 March 1997 (U.S.)

Recorded

1994–1996

Studio

Daft House (Paris)

Length

73:53

chronology

(1997)

(2001)

" Da Funk " Released: 8 May 1995 [1]
"Indo Silver Club" Released: 26 February 1996
" Around the World " Released: 7 April 1997
" Burnin' " Released: 15 September 1997
" Revolution 909 " Released: 16 February 1998

Homework is the debut studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk , released on 20 January 1997 by Virgin Records and Soma Quality Recordings . It was released in the US on 25 March 1997. [2]

Background and recording

Critical reception, 25th anniversary edition, track listing.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales, bibliography, external links.

Daft Punk received attention from major labels after releasing several popular singles on Soma Quality Recordings , and signed to Virgin in 1996. Daft Punk initially planned to release the music as separate singles, but decided they had enough material for an album. According to the Daft Punk member Thomas Bangalter , the album title was a reference to the fact that it was recorded cheaply and quickly in their homes.

Homework charted in 14 countries, reaching number 3 on the French Albums Chart , number 150 on the US Billboard 200 and number 8 on the UK Albums Chart . " Da Funk " and " Around the World " became U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play number-one singles, and "Around the World" reached number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 . By February 2001, Homework had sold more than two million copies worldwide and received several gold and platinum certifications. It was influential on dance music and brought worldwide attention to French house .

In 1993, Daft Punk, comprising Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo , presented a demo of their music to the DJ Stuart Macmillan at a rave at Disneyland Paris . [3] The contents of the cassette, including the track "Alive", were released on the single "The New Wave" on 11 April 1994, by Soma Quality Recordings , a Scottish techno and house label co-founded in 1991 by MacMillan's band Slam . [4] In 1995, Daft Punk released "Da Funk" and "Rollin' & Scratchin'" on Soma. [5] [6]

We've got much more control than money. You can't get everything. We live in a society where money is what people want, so they can't get the control. We chose. Control is freedom. People say we're control freaks, but control is controlling your destiny without controlling other people.

– Thomas Bangalter, in regards to the duo's creative control and freedom [7]

The popularity of the singles led to a bidding war among record labels . Daft Punk signed to Virgin Records in 1996. [8] [9] Richard Brown of Soma said: "We were obviously sad to lose them to Virgin but they had the chance to go big, which they wanted, and it's not very often that a band has that chance after two singles. We're happy for them." [3] Virgin re-released "Da Funk" with the B-side " Musique " in 1996, a year before releasing Homework . Bangalter later said that the B-side "was never intended to be on the album, and in fact, 'Da Funk' as a single has sold more units than Homework , so more people own it anyways [ sic ] than they would if it had been on the album. It is basically used to make the single a double-feature." [10] The album was mixed and recorded in Daft Punk's studio, Daft House in Paris. It was mastered by Nilesh Patel at the London studio the Exchange. [11]

Bangalter stated that "to be free, we had to be in control. To be in control, we had to finance what we were doing ourselves. The main idea was to be free." [12] Daft Punk discussed their method with Spike Jonze , the director of the "Da Funk" music video, who said: "They were doing everything based on how they wanted to do it. As opposed to, 'oh we got signed to this record company, we gotta use their plan.' They wanted to make sure they never had to do anything that would make them feel bummed on making music." [13] Although Virgin Records holds exclusive distribution rights over their material, Daft Punk owns their master recordings through their Daft Trax label. [8] [14]

Daft Punk produced the tracks included in Homework without a plan to release an album. According to Bangalter, "We did so many tracks over a period of five months that we realized that we had a good album." [15] They set the order of the tracks to cover the four sides of a two-disc vinyl LP . [10] Homem-Christo said, "There was no intended theme because all the tracks were recorded before we arranged the sequence of the album. The idea was to make the songs better by arranging them the way we did; to make it more even as an album." [10] The name Homework , Bangalter explained, relates to "the fact that we made the record at home, very cheaply, very quickly, and spontaneously, trying to do cool stuff". [16]

"Daftendirekt" is an excerpt of a live performance recorded in Ghent, Belgium . [11] It served as the introduction to Daft Punk's live shows and was used to begin the album. [10] The performance took place at the first I Love Techno , an event co-produced by Fuse and On the Rox on 10 November 1995. [19] Homework' s following track, "WDPK 83.7 FM", is a tribute to FM radio in the United States. [12] The next song, " Revolution 909 " is a reflection on the French government 's stance on dance music . [10] [20] "Revolution 909" is followed by " Da Funk ", which carries elements of funk and acid music. [3] According to Andrew Asch of the Boca Raton News , the song's composition "relies on a bouncy funk guitar to communicate its message of dumb fun". [21] Bangalter expressed that "Da Funk"'s theme involved the introduction of a simple, unusual element that becomes acceptable and moving over time. [22] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine complimented the song as "unrelenting", [23] and Bob Gajarsky of Consumable Online called it "a beautiful meeting of Chic (circa ' Good Times ', sans vocals) and the 90s form of electronica ". [24]

"Phoenix" combines elements of gospel music and house music . [25] Daft Punk considered "Fresh" breezy and light with a comical structure. [26] " Around the World " carries influences of Gershon Kingsley 's hit " Popcorn ". [3] Chris Power of BBC Music named it "one of the decade's catchiest singles". He stated that it was "a perfect example of Daft Punk's sound at its most accessible: a post-disco boogie bassline, a minimalist sprinkling of synthetic keyboard melody and a single, naggingly insistent hook". [18] "Teachers" is a riff on the Parris Mitchell song "Ghetto Shout Out!!", released in 1995 on Dance Mania . [27] The track is a tribute to several of Daft Punk's house music influences, including future collaborators Romanthony , DJ Sneak and Todd Edwards . [28] "Oh Yeah" features DJ Deelat and DJ Crabbe. "Indo Silver Club" features a sample of " Hot Shot " by Karen Young . [11] The final track, "Funk Ad", is a reversed clip of "Da Funk". [10]

The artwork for the front cover and inner sleeve was conceived by Daft Punk and photographed by artist and film producer Nicolas Hidiroglou. He met the duo through a connection at Virgin Records , and recalled that it took a week to complete the artwork. Homem-Christo had previously designed the Daft Punk wordmark, which was the basis for the front image of the logo embroidered onto the back of a satin jacket. [29] Variations of the logo would continue to be the front cover image for all of Daft Punk's studio albums until Random Access Memories in 2013.

To create the inner gatefold photo, various items representing track titles were arranged by Bangalter on a table at his home. [29] He noted that many of the pieces reflect Daft Punk's influences, including: a DJ Funk audio cassette; a card with a logo of The Beach Boys ; a Kiss tour poster; and a 1970s compilation record featuring Barry Manilow . Other mementos include a token from the Rex Club, the venue in Paris where Daft Punk first performed as DJs. The wall behind the table contains a photo of Homem-Christo singing as part of the duo's first band Darlin' , as well as the Darlin' logo next to a portrait of Homem-Christo as a small child. [30]

The black and white image of the duo in the liner notes was photographed by Phillppe Lévy. [11] It was shot during an event in Wisconsin called Even Furthur in 1996, featuring Daft Punk's first live performance in the United States. [31] Additional artwork and the album layout were done by Serge Nicholas. [11]

The first single, "Alive", was included as a B-side on the single "The New Wave", released in April 1994. The next single, "Da Funk", was initially released in 1995 by Soma and was rereleased by Virgin Records in January 1997. [32] It was Daft Punk's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart. [33] The song reached number seven on British and French charts. [34] [35] The third single, "Around the World", was Daft Punk's second number-one single on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart, [33] and reached number 11 in Australia, [36] number five in the United Kingdom [37] and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [38]

The fourth single, " Burnin' ", was released in September 1997 and reached number 30 in the UK. [37] The final single, "Revolution 909", was released in February 1998 and reached number 47 in the UK [37] and number 12 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart. [38] Prior to its inclusion on Homework , "Indo Silver Club" was released as a single on the Soma Quality Recordings label in two parts. [39] The single lacked an artist credit in the packaging [39] and was thought to have been created by the nonexistent producers Indo Silver Club. [40]

In 1999, Daft Punk released a video collection featuring music videos of tracks and singles from the album under the name of D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes . Although its title derives from the appearances of dogs ("Da Funk" and "Fresh"), androids ("Around the World"), firemen ("Burnin'"), and tomatoes ("Revolution 909") in the videos, a cohesive plot does not connect its episodes. [41]

Daft Punk wanted the majority of pressings to be on vinyl, so only 50,000 albums were initially printed in CD format. After its release, production was accelerated to meet demand. Homework was distributed in 35 countries, [8] reaching number 150 on the Billboard 200 . [42] It charted on the Australian Albums Chart on 27 April 1997; it remained there for eight weeks and reached number 37. [43] In France, it reached number three and stayed on the chart for 82 weeks. By October 1997, Homework had sold 220,000 copies worldwide. [44] In 1999, it was certified gold in France for selling more than 100,000 copies. [45] On 11 July 2001, it was certified gold in the US for sales of 500,000 copies. [46] According to Virgin Records, two million copies had been sold by February 2001. [47] By September 2007, 605,000 copies had been sold in the US. [48]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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	B+


	10/10
	7/10
	7.6/10

David Browne, writing in Entertainment Weekly , described the "playful, hip-hopping ambient techno" and said Homework was "ideal disco for androids". [52] Darren Gawle of Drop-D Magazine wrote that " Homework is the work of a couple of DJs who sound amateurish at best". [59] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice identified "Da Funk" as a "choice cut", indicating "a good song on an album that isn't worth your time as money". [60] [61] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine wrote that "while a few tracks are more daft than deft," "Da Funk" had inspired acts such as the Avalanches . [23] Sean Cooper of AllMusic called the album "an almost certain classic". [49] [ when? ]

In 2003, Pitchfork named Homework the 65th-greatest album of the 1990s. [62] In the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide , Douglas Wolk awarded Homework three stars out of five, writing that "the duo's essential, career-defining insight is that the problem with disco the first time around was not that it was stupid but that it was not stupid enough". [63] In the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die , Alex Rayner wrote that Homework tied established club styles to the "burgeoning eclecticism" of big beat , and demonstrated that "there was more to dance music than pills and keyboard presets". [64] Ian Mathers of Stylus Magazine wrote: "There's a core of unimpeachably classic work on Homework , hidden among the merely good, and when you've got such a classic debut hidden in the outlines of the epic slouch of their debut, it's hard not to get frustrated." [65]

In 2009, Brian Linder of IGN said Homework was "groundbreaking achievement", praising the combination of house, techno, acid and punk. [66] Reviewing it in 2010 for BBC Music , Chris Power compared Homework ' s "less-is-more" use of compression as "a sonic tribute" to the FM radio stations that "fed Daft Punk's youthful obsessions". [18] In 2011, Hua Hsu of eMusic praised the "feeling of discovery and exploration" as a result of "years of careful study of the finest house, techno, electro and hip-hop records". [67] That October, NME named "Around the World" the 21st-best track of the preceding 15 years. [68] In 2012, Clash described Homework as an entry point of accessibility for a "burgeoning movement on the cusp of splitting the mainstream seam". [69]

In 2012, Rolling Stone named Homework the greatest EDM album of all time, describing it as "pure synapse-tweaking brilliance". [70] In a second review for Pitchfork , in 2018, Larry Fitzmaurice awarded it 9.2 out of 10, writing: " Homework remains singular within Daft Punk's catalog, the record also set the stage for the duo's career to this very day—a massively successful and still-going ascent to pop iconography, built on the magic trick-esque ability to twist the shapes of dance music's past to resemble something seemingly futuristic." [71] Homework ' s success brought worldwide attention to French house music. [62] [72] According to Scott Woods of The Village Voice , the album revived house music and departed from the Eurodance formula, and "[tore] the lid off the [creative] sewer". [73]

On 22 February 2022, one year after their breakup, Daft Punk updated their social media channels with cryptic posts leading fans to a newly created Twitch account. At 2:22pm UTC , a one-time only stream began of the duo's full Daftendirektour performance at the Mayan Theater . [74] At the same time, Daft Punk released an expanded 25th-anniversary edition of Homework . It includes remixes from DJ Sneak , Masters at Work , Todd Terry , Motorbass , Slam and Ian Pooley . The remixes were also simultaneously released as a separate remix album , Homework (Remixes) , [75] with a physical release on 25 November 2022. [76] [77]

All music is composed by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

	Title	Length
1.	"Daftendirekt"	2:45
2.	"WDPK 83.7 FM"	0:28
3.	" "	5:26
4.	" "	5:30
5.	"Phoenix"	4:57
6.	"Fresh"	4:03
7.	" "	7:10
8.	"Rollin' & Scratchin'"	7:28
9.	"Teachers"	2:53
10.	"High Fidelity"	6:03
11.	"Rock'n Roll"	7:33
12.	"Oh Yeah"	2:03
13.	" "	6:53
14.	"Indo Silver Club"	4:35
15.	"Alive"	5:15
16.	"Funk Ad"	0:51
Total length:		73:53

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Australian Albums ( )	37
Austrian Albums ( )	34
Belgian Albums ( Flanders)	7
Belgian Albums ( Wallonia)	9
( )	15
Dutch Albums ( )	25
Finnish Albums ( )	34
French Albums ( )	3
German Albums ( )	48
Italian Albums ( )	19
New Zealand Albums ( )	8
Norwegian Albums ( )	40
Swedish Albums ( )	16
( )	8
US 200	150
US ( )	5

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Irish Albums ( )	54

Chart (2013)	Peak position
US ( )	42

Chart (2021)	Peak position
Croatian International Albums ( )	21
German Albums ( )	44
Swiss Albums ( )	43
US ( )	9

Chart (2022)	Peak position
Swiss Albums ( )	33
( )	8

Chart (1997)	Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	38
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	38
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)	95
European Albums ( )	68
French Albums (SNEP)	24
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)	22


Region	Certification	/sales
)	Platinum	50,000
)	2× Platinum	200,000
)	Platinum	300,000
)	Gold	50,000
)	Platinum	15,000
)	Platinum	345,009
)	Gold	674,000
Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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Homework: How Daft Punk Schooled Us In The Future Of Dance Music

With their debut album, ‘Homework’, Daft Punk cemented their place in history, even while shaping what that history would become.

There are those who ride the waves of a scene, and there are those who create a new scene in the first place. Daft Punk have always been the latter, particularly in the formative years surrounding their debut album, Homework .

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Scrappy, raw and experimental.

Few musical acts have changed so much between albums as Daft Punk did in the four years between the release of Homework , on 20 January 1997, and its follow-up, Discovery . Reinvention is often the key to longevity in music, but it usually comes after years of exhausting the same tried and tested formula. For Daft Punk, however, their first two albums feel like the works of entirely different artists: meticulously detailed and polished, Discovery was stuffed with instant classics that aimed for the big leagues. Homework , however, represents everything that’s exciting about the best debut albums: scrappy, raw and experimental, it perfectly captured the spirit of Daft Punk’s live sets in their early years, with tracks mixing into each other perfectly, building and maintaining energy as if tooled for a club appearance.

Video footage from a live show in Wisconsin, in 1996, demonstrates this perfectly. Claiming to be the earliest evidence of Daft Punk on stage, there isn’t a mirror ball or robot mask in sight. Aesthetically, it could be any boiler-room gig – a small audience going wild as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo rip through their set with absolute conviction. Sonically, it’s a wild ride: the beat is the only constant; everything else can be thrown in and pulled away again in an instant. Tracks like Homework ’s Rock’n Roll, with its pulsating scratch loop, brought the excitement of these shows to listeners’ stereos.

Hints of the Daft Punk to come

However, Homework isn’t just a recorded version of an early gig. Across its 75 minutes, there are plenty of hints of the Daft Punk to come, particularly with the standout hits Alive, Da Funk and Around The World. The ambition alone of these early singles was enough to change the dance music scene at the time, pushing house back into the mainstream.

Recorded on the cheap at home (a process that gave the album its title), Homework wasn’t truly intended to be an album: the singles are placed between the more experimental tracks in an attempt to form something that felt more traditionally cohesive. Even so, it’s clear there were two very difference sides to Daft Punk, even in these early stages.

Few artists could produce their debut album at home while ensuring it sounded perfect wherever it was played, but, channelling huge amounts of energy and live experience for the recording, Bangalter and De Homem-Christo already knew what would work and what wouldn’t on their limited set-up. It’s this adaptability that made Daft Punk’s journey from club act to festival headliners a smooth one. But while it’s one thing to make an album at home, it’s an entirely other thing to have it cement your place in musical history.

Here are some of the standout tracks that make Homework a lesson in the evolution of dance music…

Homework : the tracks you need to hear

Revolution 909.

There’s a drum sound so industrial it could have been recorded in a factory, landing with such a satisfying clang that it’s hard to focus on anything else. Revolution 909 sits perfectly as one of Homework ’s opening tracks, setting the energy for the rest of the album and leading flawlessly into Da Funk…

… Which is not only a highlight on Homework , it’s a highlight of Daft Punk’s entire career. When a band discovers a truly great riff, they strip down everything else and squeeze every last drop out of it. Da Funk is one of those: instant, direct, and memorable – everything you want from a house track. Also, shout-out to the music video by the masterful Spike Jonze, in which a dog with its leg in a cast gets treated with complete indifference by a load of strangers.

Nothing sums up the early Daft Punk sound quite like Phoenix. Though subtler than some of the Homework ’s later tracks, it’s fully earned its place amongst the group’s bigger hitters.

Around The World

What more is there to say that hasn’t already been said? Around The World remains a juggernaut in dance music. Every part has been tightened to perfection, making it the perfect instrumental for the duo to introduce their trademark robot voice on.

With a twitching bassline that props up an ever-growing beat, Burnin’ is surrounded by all kinds of pops, scratches, slides and squeaks. If Homework builds in intensity as a live set would, this is the peak of that experience.

One of the original singles dropped ahead of Homework’s release, Alive still sounds as huge as ever. There’s a reason they name their tours after this song…

Check out the best Daft Punk song of all time to discover how they got harder, better, faster, stronger.

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Incredibly, this week marks the 20th anniversary of Daft Punk ’s agenda-setting debut album, Homework .

The starting gun for a decade of French dancefloor domination, Homework was fittingly named, with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter folding two decades of club influences into a set of anarchic, sweat-soaked and occasionally monstrously radio-ready tunes for dancing. The robots may have become paragons of studio perfectionism in recent years, but on Homework they let us see every gritty detail, facing down police killjoys (‘Revolution 909’), tuning into dance radio (‘WDPK 837 FM’) and shoving our heads deep in the bass bin (‘Oh Yeah’).

On ‘Teachers’ , Daft Punk saluted the musical heroes who’d laid the foundations for their sound, from Jeff Mills and Todd Edwards to George Clinton and Dr. Dre – a hat tip that also acted a cheat sheet for electronic newbies (and still does). So to mark Homework ‘s 20th anniversary, we’re presenting a very special tribute mix to those Teachers.

Tracing Daft Punk’s early inspirations, from Kraftwerk to Kenny Dixon Jr. and from Lil Mo Yin Yang to Lil Louis, it’s the third ‘Teachers’ mix from the superfan and dancefloor historian known as CK . The trilogy began back in 2011 with a 42-track session he posted to the blog Bodytonic, based on liner notes, mix selections and interviews from the Homework period. The longlist for that mix ran to over 300 tracks, so CK returned to the task in 2013 with a second volume , selecting tracks dating back to 1977.

For this 20th anniversary instalment, CK focuses on the house and techno artists that weren’t featured in the previous mixes, like Luke Slater, Basement Jaxx and Ludovic Navarre, alongside some legends from jazz, rock and electronic scenes who influenced the robot’s sound, including John Carpenter, Herbie Hancock, Van Halen and Tangerine Dream.

So think of it as a tribute to a tribute, a celebration of Daft Punk’s ‘Teachers’ that also happens to be one of the most shirt-rippingly ecstatic mixes we’ve heard in a long, long time.

Tron excerpt Deepside – ‘French’ Ian Pooley – ‘Mutual Extend’ DJ Sneak – ‘Drums Are Us’ ‘Heroes in their own home’ – 1986 Chicago TV report DJ Hyperactive – ‘Alteno’ Bomb the Bass – ‘Beat Dis’ Drexciya – ‘Lardossen Funk’ Herbie Hancock – ‘Nobu’ Cerrone – ‘Sweet Drums’ Boogie Down Productions – ‘Jimmy’ Sparks – ‘Beat the Clock’ (Extended 12”) DJ Deeon – ‘World War 3 Beat/Teachapella’ Paul Johnson – ‘Aww Shit’ DJ Sneak – ‘Keep on Groovin’ (Ian Pooley Fierce mix) Basement Jaxx – ‘Deep Jackin’ Prince – ‘Purple Music’/’Automatic’ DJ Funk – ‘I’m So Hi’ Jack Da Ripper – ‘Jack’s Back’ Lil Louis – ‘French Kiss’ The Madam/The Prince – ‘The Sensuous Black Woman Meets The Sensuous Black Man’ Laurent Garnier – ‘The Hoe’ (Old School mix) Serge Gainsbourg – ‘CK’s Whitneypella’ Basement Jaxx – ‘Fly Life’/Blair – ‘Life’ (Derrick Carter remix) Romanthony – ‘Testify’ DJ Gregory – ‘Hands’ DJ Slugo – ‘Love Sensation’ (rx) Isaac Hayes – ‘I Can’t Turn Around’ (Ashley Beedle edit) The Jacksons – ‘Living Together’ K.I.D. – ‘Don’t Stop’ Sugarhill Gang – ‘Rapper’s Reprise’ Chic – ‘I Feel Your Love Comin’ On’ 326 – ‘Falling’ (Mike Dunn remix) Deee-Lite – ‘What Is Love’ (Frenchapella) DJ Pierre – ‘The Horn Song’ Lil’ Mo’ Yin Yang – ‘Reach’ Ruffneck – ‘Everybody Be Somebody’ (A capella) Dimitri from Paris – ‘Free Ton Style’/MFSB – ‘Mysteries of the World’ Gene Farris – ‘Disco Heaven’ Cameo – ‘It’s Serious’ Stevie Wonder – ‘Race Babbling’ Luke Slater – ‘Purely’ Boris Dlugosch – ‘Keep Pushin’’ Kraftwerk – ‘Computer World 2′ Jammin’ Gerald – ‘Pump That Shit Up’ Jammin Gerald – ‘Body Heat Track’ JohNick – ‘Planet JohNick’ Trankilou – ‘Atom Funk’ Fantom – ‘Faithfull’ (CK’s Luv Dancer edit) Fantom – ‘Faithfull’ (Prassay [DJ Gregory] remix) Deee-Lite – ‘Good Beat’ (Beatapella) Fade II Black – ‘In-Sync’ Deee-Lite – ‘What Is Love’ (Frenchapella) DBX – ‘Live Wire’ Robert Hood – ‘Museum’ DJ Funk – ‘Move Your Body’ Parris Mitchell – ‘Bitches & Money’ Tyree – ‘Acid Crash’ rx Kraftwerk – ‘Music Non Stop’ Sync – ‘Mail’ Sparks/Giorgio Moroder – ‘Beat The Clock’ (Canadian edit) R-Tyme – ‘Use Me’ (Carl Craig remix) The Underground Solution – ‘Luv Dancin” (Roger Sanchez’s In Deep Mix) JohNick – ‘Play the World’ KRS-One – ‘Jack of Spades’ Gil Scott Heron – ‘Corners’ (Cristal edit) Ant Banks – ‘Packin’ a Gun’ Kenny Dixon Jr – ‘Yesterdays’ Herbie Hancock – ‘You Bet Your Love’ John Carpenter – ‘The End’/Afrika Bambaata – ‘Bambaata’s Theme’ Zapp – ‘More Bounce to the Ounce’ George Clinton – ‘Loopzilla’ S’Express – ‘Theme from S’Express’ Phantom of the Paradise excerpt Don Ray/Cerrone – ‘Got To Have Loving’/First Choice – ‘Let No Man Put Asunder’ Daft Punk – ‘Fresh’ (Video excerpt) Jan Hammer – ‘Crockett’s Theme’ Tangerine Dream – ‘Love on a Real Train’ ‘Guy-Manuel’s Tangerine Dream’

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