Cole Cuchna

Its slow pace strips away the hyper-stimulation of modern entertainment, forcing us to sit with a possible near future, a cautionary tale that reminds us of the value of our humanity, something that must be consciously preserved as we become increasingly tethered to technology.

Now, as their second album linked film, Electromo solidified Daft Punk's interest in worldbuilding, creating exploratory, interconnected works that approached the same themes from different angles, each filling in the gaps of the other.

And what their next major installment made clear is that these worlds weren't isolated projects.

Rather, they were starting to form a connected body of work, a larger narrative unfolding across albums, films, and soon, performance.

Indeed, with this next endeavor, homework, discovery, and human after all are reassembled into a single continuous experience.

A historic spectacle of music, light, and story that reframes their entire catalog as a three-sided triangular superstructure.

A pyramid, if you will.

It was Daft Punk's Alive 2007 tour.

Daft Punk's Alive 2007 tour and its debut at Coachella 2006 is one of those rare historical moments in which there is a clear before and after.

It's a definitive marker not only in Daft Punk's career, but in the evolution of electronic dance music, a moment often referred to as a big bang for the genre.

The origins of the show trace back to 2006, when Daft Punk were invited to Coachella by the festival's organizers.

Having turned them down for years, they were offered an unusually large sum of $350,000 to perform, which Daft Punk saw as a unique opportunity to help fund their ambitious visual concept.

We can actually see an early version of what became the iconic pyramid stage in the music video for Technologic, where a grotesque robot shouts commands from the top of a red pyramid structure.

Working in absolute secrecy, Thomas and Guimond collaborated with the video's director Martin Phillips to bring the structure to life, constructing a state-of-the-art pyramid that measured 18 feet across and was covered with high-resolution LED screens.

Extending outward from the pyramid were two triangular grids of LED lights, positioned in front of a full-stage LED curtain that covered the entire backdrop.

At the time, LED lighting wasn't nearly as common as it is today, making the scale of its use in Daft Punk's show especially novel.

There was even a rumor that they caused an LED shortage in North America, which wasn't actually true, but it shows you the kind of mythologizing that would happen around this show.

The pyramid would make its historic debut at Coachella on April 29, 2006.

Because Daft Punk didn't tour Discovery, it was their first live performance in nearly 10 years, and their first costume as robots.

Daft Punk weren't the headliners that night, nor were they booked on the main stage.