On This Day In Billboard Dance History: Daft Punk Brought 'Da Funk' To Da Club - And Da Charts

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The single marked DaftPunk's first-ever appearance on the Billboard charts.

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24 years ago today . First hitting Dance Club Songs on April 5, 1997 "Da Funk" was the first Daft Punk song to ever appear on achart. On May 14, 1997 its N0. 1 position was followed by Aaliyah's"One In A Million" at No. 2, with the rest of the top ten filled out by a very eclectic and extremely '90s group of artists including Reel 2 Reel, Paula Cole and Sneaker Pimps.

While the group's Thomas Bangalter famously said that"Da Funk" was their attempt to make something reminiscent of Warren G's 1994 G-Funk masterpiece"Regulate," the song was also steeped in tech-forged acid house, the famously squelchy genre that that had emerged in the '80s upon the release of the Roland TB-303While few could have said so at the time, the song was of course also a blueprint for French Touch, a soon-to-be essential genre that Daft Punk were...

Did"Da Funk" sound like its namesake genre as well? According to a review in this very publication, the answer wasin a March 1997 issue."This is the sound of clubland for tomorrow. Already a mega-smash on dancefloors all over Europe, this wriggling instrumental combination of cutting-edge electronic dance and Cameo-styled funk is ripe for the openminded or anyone who is tired of the same of thing.

Indeed,"Da Funk" may have been am homage to G-funk and '70s disco funk itself, but anyone who heard it in clubs must have either consciously or intuitively understood that the slick, swaggering track was far from the same old thing.

It was weird and clever, and not only because it showcased the song without any appearance from the famously photo-shy producers -- who in the years following the release of"Da Funk" ultimately spent seven weeks on Dance Club Songs, a relatively humble run that was simultaneously a powerful announcement that many things about electronic music were evolving and that Daft Punk were key architects of this change. Not only were U.S.

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