This is the sexiest photo I could find. Cherry Cherry Pow Pow? haha

in 1997 the Daft Duo did the unfukwitable and dropped Homework, a concept that I simultaneously could relate to, and yet had no idea what it meant. It was also about that time the previously strictly outcast nerd haven of techno and midwest “rave” zeitgeist was reaching its spiritual crescendo of day glo party people, soon to be followed with a killer dance music K-hole (IMO). It was only a few years earlier that the Detroit/Chicago acid sound was all mighty king, reports of finding a 909/808/303 in a thrift shop for $20 was believable, and if it wasn’t on record or cassette, it probably didn’t exist. I recall the moment it all changed for me, I was at a party in a cow barn, the cows had just earlier that day been shuffled out the back door into the field (not an uncommon scenario in the mighty midwest), and it must have been a slow weekend becasue DJ Hyperactive had actually shown up to play… and he played at least two tracks from this album, could’ve been more. Looking back, that was the tipping point. After that, you couldn’t go to a party without hearing daft punk before, during and after. And no one was complaining. I think we were all to high to notice that (a.) the music had changed (b.) it wasn’t about the music anymore. Daft Punk made the classic album and dance music became a commodity in one breath. Something something something… Disco?

Dryhump: Daft Punk – Revolution 909 (don lowed)

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