Daft Punk gives their final song together a hypnotic animated tribute

May marks the 10th anniversary of Random access memories, the fourth and final studio album by the legendary duo Daft Punk. While the influential helmeted dance robots – born Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo – would remain active for several more years, collaborating with artists such as The Weeknd, the pair split in 2021. blow up their robot characters and pursuing very different solo careers. That doesn’t mean they don’t have more to share.

Released today, a 10th anniversary re-release of Random access memories comes with another disc full of previously unreleased music. While that’s very exciting for fans of French house music, some of the coolest anniversary content is being added the Daft Punk YouTube channelwhich is packed with retrospectives, behind-the-scenes videos, and an awesome music video for “Infinity Repeating,” an unreleased demo that the last Bangalter and de Homen-Christo shot together like Daft Punk.

Written and directed by Warren Fu, the video is a collaboration between a number of eclectic animation studios working together to produce a seamless illustration of forward motion, where a line becomes a circle and is animated to spin, moving up the chain of evolution to an increasingly sophisticated depiction of humanity moving forward.

It’s top-level hypnotic melancholy, the sort of thing that comes to mind when it’s said that Daft Punk worked to “put emotion into the machines,” like Bangalter told the New York Times in a recent interview to promote his new work as a composer.

Give it a watch, or a dozen.