Announcing the news in a typically cryptic video, after 28 years of making electronic dance music together, the camera-shy French dance duo are going their separate ways.
Formed in Paris in 1993, the group brought the French underground house scene into the charts with hits like One More Time, Da Funk, and Around The World. They are credited with creating some of the most influential dance tracks of all time, striking gold in 2013 with the hugely successful Get lucky, featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rogers.
Aside from their music, they were also famous for not wanting to be seen in public without their robot headgear, TV appearances or interviews are few and far between. The band's publicist Kathryn Frazier offered no explanation for the break-up – fans have since been flooding social media with tributes. According to the BBC French media tracking service Visibrain has said that there were 27 tweets posted every second about the band on Monday afternoon.
The picture below was taken before the two became publicity-shy, Guy-Manuel is on the left and Thomas on the right
The video is titled Epilogue and sees the duo, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, dressed in their iconic robot costumes, bidding each other farewell in the desert, before one of them assists the other to 'self-destruct'.
And here it is – Epilogue - featuring footage from their 2006 sci-fi film Electroma.
