Alive 2007 / Alive 1997

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The historical consensus is that Daft Punk’s pyramid show—which debuted at Coachella in April 2006 and toured the world throughout 2007—was ground zero for the EDM explosion that fused kinetic dance music with eye-popping visual, catapulting the genre to the top of the chart. But for Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the chance to create this career-defining performance came while the duo was experiencing a career nadir, following the lukewarm reception toward Daft Punk’s 2005 album <i>Human After All</i>. Did Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo feel a make-or-break urgency as they crafted the sound and vision of their comeback shows? It’s impossible to know; after all, these guys aren’t known for talking. But the pair clearly took the challenge seriously, decamping to Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood to develop the show, and investing the full $300,000 fee for playing Coachella to build a stage set unlike anything seen before. But while the technicolor extravaganza was the alpha in the EDM phenomenon, the show’s career-spanning musical megamix, captured in the 2007 album <i>Alive 2007</i>, was the omega. The nearly 90-minute collection brings together songs from the duo’s first three album, mixing together tracks and texture, as when 1997’s “Oh Yeah” is mixed with 2005’s “Technologic” (with a sample of Busta Rhyme’s “Touch It” dropped in for extra oomph). .

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