Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter has announced his new album ‘Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers’. Find all the details below.
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The record is due for release on June 5, digitally, and on vinyl, CD, and limited edition Revox Tape.
The music seeks to trace the “changing states” of a ballet for 16 dancers, choreographed by Damien Jalet and contemporary artist Kōhei Nawa, per a press release.
It comes as a collaboration between the three, with Bangalter composing and performing a minimalist, electronic score.
The first taste is available today (April 24), in the form of the atmospheric track ‘Mirage: Part II’, which you can check out below.
Since Daft Punk broke up in 2021, Bangalter has composed the DAAAAAALÍ film soundtrack and has also worked on the soundtrack to ‘Chiroptera’, an opera made in collaboration with artist JR and choreographer Damien Jalet. The second act was performed to the public on November 12, 2022.
He also released the orchestral soundtrack to a ballet called ‘Mythologies‘ in 2023. The album focuses on “the large-scale traditional force of a symphony and, as such, it embraces the history of orchestral ballet music”.
In February, Daft Punk marked five years since their split with a new video for their 2005 single ‘Human After All’.
In other news, Bangalter recently played a B2B DJ set with Fred Again.. on his huge ‘USB002’ tour. The set is now available to stream on Apple Music.
Before then, the two of them performed together in Paris towards the end of 2025, which marked Bangalter’s first DJ set in 16 years. Unlike that Paris show, the gig in London saw them break out multiple Daft Punk classics, including ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’, ‘Around The World’, ‘One More Time’, ‘Technologic’, and the electronic duo’s collab with The Weeknd,‘Starboy’.
Elsewhere, new footage of Daft Punk performing with Phoenix at a legendary concert at Madison Square Garden was recently unearthed.
The 2010 show famously saw the masked duo join their French counterparts onstage while they were playing ‘If I Ever Feel Better’ as part of their encore. They then joined forces for ‘Harder Better Faster Stronger’, ‘Around The World’ and Phoenix’s ‘1901’.
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