Cole Cuchna

Rather, this beat is from the song Oh Yeah off their debut, Homework.

Oh Yeah is one of the deepest cuts on homework.

To this day, it's the lowest stream song on the project.

In no ordinary world would this ever be played second in a setlist.

Hell, conventional logic would demand that it not be played at all.

Yet, when combined with the guitar chord of Robot Rock and preceded by that incredible build, Oh Yeah is transformed into a breathtaking musical moment that totally transcends its original form.

This recontextualization of Oh Yeah reveals the musical approach Daft Punk took to their entire set, where not a single one of their songs is played verbatim, as they appear on their albums.

Instead, they viewed their songs and the individual elements of those songs as modular units that can be combined to create entirely new compositions.

Thomann told Pitchfork in 2007, quote, We really tried to reinterpret every song so that they connect to each other.

We have always strongly felt there was a logical connection between our three albums, and it's great to see that people seem to realize that when they listen now to the live show, unquote.

Daft Punk create moment after moment using this modular approach to their catalog, creating surprising combinations that breathe new life into their tracks, be them hits, deep cuts, or often combinations of both.

Early into the set, they combine television rules the nation with crescendos, a completely counterintuitive pairing that somehow works to create an exhilarating crescendo.

Daft Punk also composed new original material to use alongside loops of their existing songs.

One of the most effective examples of this happens in the mashup of Around the World and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

They begin with a fairly straightforward rendition of Around the World, giving the crowd a chance to latch on to the first true hit of the night.

The standard version of Around the World runs for just over a minute before Daft Punk begin to shift the arrangement, subtly introducing an original synth sequence played on a Moog synthesizer they kept inside the Pyramid.

This synth becomes the connective thread between Around the World and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Listen to how they pull back Around the World, hold on to that synth, and bring in the iconic vocoder from Harder, Better.

After establishing Harder Better into the mix, the remainder of the piece is a seamless fusion of the two iconic tracks, with that synth acting as a constant anchor, allowing them to move effortlessly between Around the World one moment, and Harder Better Faster Stronger the next.

This piece comes to a dramatic climax at the end where Daft Punk looped the opening of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger