Alive 2007 is the second live album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 19 November 2007 by Virgin Records. It features Daft Punk's performance at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy arena in Paris on 14 June 2007 during their Alive tour.Exclusive: Daft Punk Unveil Live Album Details Spin.com. Retrieved on 16 September 2007.Alive 2007 teaser daft-musique.com. Retrieved on 16 September 2007. The set features an assortment of Daft Punk's music, incorporated with synthesisers, mixers and live effects."Daft Punk's Magical Pyramid/Spaceship: Infiltrated!" . pitchfork.com. Retrieved on 10 December 2007
The retail release of Alive 2007 in North America was delayed to 4 December 2007 due to production problems.Daft Punk's Newsletter EMI. Retrieved on 2 November 2007. It was released as a download on 20 November 2007, and was released in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2008.Daft Punk's YouTube channel youtube.com. Retrieved on 16 September 2007. A performance of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was released as a single. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2009.
Content and release Alive 2007 is taken from Daft Punk's performance at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, on 14 June 2007. The performance includes remixed versions of many of their most popular tracks"French Touch Is Back in Its Homeland" . mycow.eu. Retrieved on 13 September 2007. such as mixing vocal elements from "Too Long" with new music,Bercy Review thedaftclub.com. Retrieved on 13 September 2007. and mixed elements of "Television Rules the Nation" with "Crescendolls", "Around the World" with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Superheroes" with "Human After All".Daft Punk Embrase Bercy lejdd.fr. Retrieved on 13 September 2007. The album includes elements of the Busta Rhymes song "Touch It", the original version of which was produced by Swizz Beatz featuring a sample of "Technologic". Also featured are elements of Gabrielle's "Forget About the World", the original version of which was remixed by Daft Punk for her single. The encore of the Alive 2007 set features Bangalter's side projects: Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You" and Together's self-titled track "Together".Alive 2007 (liner notes). Daft Punk. Virgin Records, a division of EMI Music France. 2007. The special edition of the album includes a 50-page book containing photographs from the tour taken by DJ Falcon, as well as the encore on a second disc.
In December 2014, two vinyl editions of the album were released. The first is standard black dual LP, while the second is a limited edition collectors box set. The box set edition was shipped along with a reissued Alive 1997 vinyl with stickers, dual vinyls in white in a threefold sleeve, and a separate white LP containing the encore. Also included is a large hardback 52-page photo book, an Alive 2007 concert pass replica, a Daft Punk printed slipmat, and a download code for the digital versions of the songs.
In the video game Fortnite, an excerpt of Alive 2007 was incorporated into an interactive experience that recreates the tour's stage show with additional visual elements. The experience launched on September 27, 2025 and was developed in collaboration with Cédric Hervet, creative director for Daft Punk.
Tour In early 2006, Daft Punk announced a number of shows. On 29 April, they performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, their first US performance since 1997.Merry Swankster, (5 May 2006). Retrieved 25 February 2006. Thomas Bangalter initially suggested there would be a DVD release of the show, but later said he felt amateur footage shared online was more compelling.Las Vegas Weekly: Chatting with a robot Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved 26 October 2007. Daft Punk later announced shows at Bercy, Paris,Daft Punk's Official MySpace Page myspace.com. Retrieved 31 August 2007. Wireless Festival and RockNess in June 2007, the Oxegen festival in July and Lollapalooza in August.Rockness '07 rockness.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2007Wireless Festival '07 wirelessfestival.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2007Oxygen '07 oxegen.ie. Retrieved 24 February 2007Lolla '07 lollapalooza.com. Retrieved 12 April 2007.
Daft Punk played at the RockNess Festival by the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland, on 10 June 2007 as the headline act in the 10,000-capacity Clash tent. Part of the tent was removed to allow thousands of people outside to see the show.Clash Magazine Rock Ness Review . clashmagazine.com. Retrieved 17 June 2007. On 16 June, Daft Punk headlined the third day of the O2 Wireless Festival.Wireless Festival review The Times. Retrieved 6 July 2007 Daft Punk headlined Stage 2/NME Stage at the Oxegen music festival on 8 July 2007. Their live set was preceded by a showing of the trailer for the film Daft Punk's Electroma.Daft Punk close Oxegen with robotic spectacular NME. Retrieved 12 July 2007.Daft Punk Closes Out Oxegen Festival shoutmouth.com. Retrieved 12 July 2007. Four days later, the duo played at Traffic Torino Free Festival in Parco della Pellerina in Turin, Italy.Daft Punk at Traffic Torino Free Festival trafficfestival.com. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
Daft Punk headlined the AT&T stage on 3 August 2007, the first night of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. Their show there was praised by Pitchfork, which wrote that it "was a much-needed reminder of the still-potent power of communicative pop."Lollapalooza Report Friday (Scott Plagenhoef) Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 7 August 2007. On 5 August, Daft Punk performed at the International Centre in Toronto followed by a 9 August performance at KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, New York.Daft Punk Announce Live Album side-line.com. Retrieved 31 August 2007. They headlined the Vegoose festival in Las Vegas on 27 October, along with Rage Against the Machine, Muse and Queens of the Stone Age. At the end of October, Daft Punk performed in Mexico City.Révision: Daft Punk Ciudad de México vivirmexico.com. Retrieved 6 November 2007. They also performed on Friday 2 November 2007 at the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico and Guadalajara.Daft Punk Monterrey Weekend: Part One URB. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
Modular Records announced that Daft Punk would appear in Australia for an event in December 2007 called Never Ever Land.Daft Punk ARE coming to Australia inthemix.com.au. Retrieved 30 August 2007. Daft Punk were supported by their regular acts SebastiAn and Kavinsky at the appearances, which had been announced as an extension to the Alive 2007 tour. Never Ever Land toured to Melbourne at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Perth at the Esplanade, Brisbane at the Riverstage and finally Sydney at the Sydney Showground Main Arena. A Triple J interview with Pedro Winter (Busy P) revealed that Daft Punk's Sydney appearance on 22 December would be their final show for 2007 and the last to feature the pyramid light scheme.Daft Punk to Play Last Shows in Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 October 2007. Tickets for the Australian tour sold more quickly than for any Daft Punk-related event in their history.Zan Rowe Interviews Busy P on Triple j triplej.net.au. Retrieved 30 September 2007.
For the 2007 shows, Daft Punk added the tracks "Burnin'" and "Phoenix" and an encore. Bangalter explained that the 2006 sets were initially designed for performances within larger festivals, but later refined to accommodate Daft Punk-centric shows, saying "The goal was to try and bring a complete global experience to the audience."Buy It Use It Break It Fix It LA Weekly. Retrieved on 6 November 2007. The introduction for the live show featured the five-note sequence used in Close Encounters of the Third Kind."Daft Punk thrill massive LA crowd" . NME. Retrieved on 14 November 2007.
Technical elements For the performances, Daft Punk used Ableton Live software on "custom-made supercomputers" controlled remotely with Behringer BCR2000 MIDI controllers. They also used Minimoog Voyager RME units, which, with the mixers, allowed them to "mix, shuffle, trigger loops, filter, distort samples, EQ in and out, transpose or destroy and deconstruct synth lines". The majority of the equipment was stored within offstage towers during the performances.
The tour visuals were set up by XL Video.XL Video's profile on Apple Apple. Retrieved on 9 November 2007. The company provided eight-core Mac Pro units running Catalyst v4 and Final Cut Pro. Daft Punk approached the company with their visual concept for the shows. "They came to us with a pretty fixed idea of what they wanted", said head of XL Video, Richard Burford. "They wanted to mix live video with effects. Using the eight-core Mac Pros, we were able to take in eight digital sources and treat them as video streams. Then they could use Catalyst to coordinate the video with lighting effects and add their own effects in on the fly. The final digital video streams ran to LED screens."
Reception The Alive 2007 tour was acclaimed. The Times described the set as a "memorable sensory spectacle, both dazzling and deafening" and ThisisLondon declared it "an almost faultless set of relentless electro euphoria". NME wrote that the performance was "a robotic spectacular", while Shoutmouth described the set as "typically triumphant". The tour is credited for bringing dance music to a wider audience, especially in North America. The Guardian journalist Gabriel Szatan likened it to the Beatles' 1964 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which brought British rock and roll to the American mainstream.
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