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." Although Virgin Records holds exclusive distribution rights over Daft Punk's material, the duo still owns their master recordings through their Daft Trax label. He noted that "they were doing everything based on how they wanted to do it. The main idea was to be free." Daft Punk discussed their method with Spike Jonze, director of the "Da Funk" music video. To be in control, we had to finance what we were doing ourselves. īangalter stated that "to be free, we had to be in control. It was mastered by Nilesh Patel at the London studio The Exchange. It is basically used to make the single a double-feature." The album was mixed and recorded in Daft Punk's studio, Daft House in Paris. 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. We're happy for them." Virgin re-released "Da Funk" with the B-side " Musique" in 1996, a year before releasing Homework. Their departure was noted by Richard Brown of Soma, who affirmed that "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. The increasing popularity of Daft Punk's singles led to a bidding war among record labels, resulting in the duo's signing to Virgin Records in 1996. – Thomas Bangalter, in regards to the duo's creative control and freedom People say we're control freaks, but control is controlling your destiny without controlling other people. We live in a society where money is what people want, so they can't get the control.
The album is widely hailed as a classic of the French house genre and a significant influence on subsequent dance music. By February 2001, the album had sold more than two million copies worldwide and received several gold and platinum certifications.
Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play number-one singles, the latter of which reached number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. " Da Funk" and " Around the World" became U.S. The album charted in 14 countries, peaking at number 3 on the French Albums Chart, number 150 on the United States Billboard 200 and at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart. Homework 's success brought worldwide attention to French house music. As the duo's first project on a major label, they produced the album's tracks without plans to release them, but after initially considering releasing them as separate singles, they considered the material good enough for an album. It was later released in the United States on 25 March 1997. 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.
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