Daft Punk finest remix: Alive 2007 is live!
Mardi 20 novembre 2007
Nîmes, 26th June 2007, I took some holidays from my internship in Morocco to go to Daft Punk’s concert in a small city in southern France. I had heard from some friends who attended other Daft Punk concerts that I was going to spend one of the finest time of my life. Let alone the exceptional premises (ancient roman arena gathering nearly 15 000 people) and warm-up (Kavinsky, SebastiAn and Cassius), and let’s focus on Daft Punk’s astonishing performance.
And what a performance! My friends were not lying. During one hour and half, 10 years were scrolling in my ears. Homework minimal electronic tracks mixed with Human After All electric and Discovery disco-style riffs. A huge remix of Daft Punk artwork, served by Daft Punk themselves. Thousands of cell phones and digital cameras were enlightening the site producing an irrealistic landscape.
To understand the buzz paving Daft Punk tours, just listen to their last album, Alive 2007, recorded during the Paris concert. You will notice the public warming shouts all along the tracks. Public are fully part of the show, and Daft Punk has always been relying on its involvement. Take the official videoclip of Harder Better Faster Stronger from Alive Tour (see below): the director Olivier Gondry gave 250 digital cameras to the public of the Brooklyn concert and asked them to shoot as they feel it.
Asked why they only released an album and not a DVD, Daft Punk answered that nothing could be more realistic (and alive?) than video shooted by fans and posted on the Internet.