🔒 Closed Daft Punk Homework (25th Anniversary Edition)

Daft Punk – Homework (25th Anniversary Edition)​

Genre: Dance
Release Date: January 20, 1997

Daft Punk once described 1997’s Homework as their attempt to prove you could make an album in your bedroom with next to nothing. It sounded, on the face of it, like club music, but it also captured the immediacy of two friends (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) bouncing off the walls to whatever felt good to them. Which, in effect, is what Daft Punk was. The album’s title was conceived with purpose: Homework sounded like kids preparing for a bigger, more ãdül† test, but also like work made—simply and lovingly—at home.

For listeners unfamiliar with the dance-music subcultures the group drew on, the album had the cheerful quality of a guided tour: This is what house sounds like, these are its textures and shapes, this is how it thumps when you play it loud—and, in the case of “Teachers,” this is who created it. But at a time when the most visible forms of mainstream electronic music were the rock-influenced hybrids of big beat (The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy), Homework proved that pure dance music could appeal to mainstream audiences without being mixed with anything.

Its genius was in its simplicity: Even if you thought “Da Funk” or “Around the World” were irritating, you wouldn’t quickly forget hearing them. They were dance tracks that functioned like toys: clever, creative little constructions that were easy to grasp and, in their additive-and-subtractive builds, highly addictive. And to rock-oriented purists who associated synthesizers with pretense and bloat, Homework was as minimal as the Ramones and as powerful as AC/DC. In its bright, simple rigidity, Homework opened a world where listeners could let go.

Tracklist:

1. Daftendirekt
2. WDPK 83.7 FM
3. Revolution 909
4. Da Funk
5. Phoenix
6. Fresh
7. Around the World
8. Rollin’ & Scratchin’
9. Teachers
10. High Fidelity
11. Rock’n Roll
12. Oh Yeah
13. Burnin’
14. Indo Silver Club
15. Alive
16. Funk Ad
17. Around the World (I:Cube Remix)
18. Revolution 909 (Roger Sanchez & Junior Sanchez Remix)
19. Around the World (Tee’s Frozen Sun Mix)
20. Around the World (Mellow Mix)
21. Burnin’ (DJ Sneak Main Mix)
22. Around the World (Kenlou Mix)
23. Burnin’ (Ian Pooley Cut up Mix)
24. Around the World (Motorbass Vice Mix)
25. Around the World (Maw Remix)
26. Burnin’ (Slam Mix)
27. Around the World (Original Lead On Mix)
28. Burnin’ (DJ Sneak Mongowarrier Mix)
29. Around the World (Raw Dub)
30. Teachers (Extended Mix)
31. Revolution 909 (Revolution Accapella)

You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.