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| Released | 19 November 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 14 June 2007 | |||
| Venue | Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy (Paris, France) | |||
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| Length | 84:00 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
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Alive 2007 is the second live album by the French electronic music duoDaft Punk, released on 19 November 2007 byVirgin Records. It features Daft Punk's performance at thePalais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy arena in Paris on 14 June 2007 during their Alive tour.[1][2] The set features an assortment of Daft Punk's music, incorporated with synthesisers, mixers and live effects.[3]
The retail release ofAlive 2007 in North America was delayed to 4 December 2007 due to production problems.[4] It was released as adownload on 20 November 2007, and was released in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2008.[5] A performance of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was released as a single. The album won aGrammy Award forBest Electronic/Dance Album in 2009.[6]
Alive 2007 is taken from Daft Punk's performance at thePalais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, on 14 June 2007.[7] The performance includes remixed versions of many of their most popular tracks[8] such as mixing vocal elements from "Too Long" with new music,[9] and mixed elements of "Television Rules the Nation" with "Crescendolls", "Around the World" with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Superheroes" with "Human After All".[10] The album includes elements of theBusta Rhymes song "Touch It", the original version of which was produced bySwizz Beatz featuring a sample of "Technologic". Also featured are elements ofGabrielle's "Forget About the World", the original version of which was remixed by Daft Punk for her single. The encore of theAlive 2007 set features Bangalter's side projects: Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You" andTogether's self-titled track "Together".[11] The special edition of the album includes a 50-page book containing photographs from the tour taken byDJ Falcon, as well as the encore on a second disc.[7]
In December 2014, two vinyl editions of the album were released.[12] 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 reissuedAlive 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, anAlive 2007 concert pass replica, a Daft Punk printedslipmat, and a download code for the digital versions of the songs.
In the video gameFortnite, an excerpt ofAlive 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 withCédric Hervet, creative director for Daft Punk.[13]
In early 2006, Daft Punk announced a number of shows. On 29 April, they performed at theCoachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, their first US performance since 1997.[14]Thomas Bangalter initially suggested there would be a DVD release of the show,[15] but later said he felt amateur footage shared online was more compelling.[16] Daft Punk later announced shows atBercy, Paris,[17]Wireless Festival andRockNess in June 2007, theOxegen festival in July andLollapalooza in August.[18][19][20][21]
Daft Punk played at theRockNess Festival by the banks ofLoch 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.[22] On 16 June, Daft Punk headlined the third day of theO2 Wireless Festival.[23] 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 filmDaft Punk's Electroma.[24][25] Four days later, the duo played at Traffic Torino Free Festival in Parco della Pellerina inTurin, Italy.[26]
Daft Punk headlined theAT&T stage on 3 August 2007, the first night of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. Their show there was praised byPitchfork, which wrote that it "was a much-needed reminder of the still-potent power of communicative pop."[27] On 5 August, Daft Punk performed at theInternational Centre in Toronto followed by a 9 August performance atKeySpan Park inBrooklyn, New York.[28] They headlined theVegoose festival inLas Vegas on 27 October, along withRage Against the Machine,Muse andQueens of the Stone Age.[17] At the end of October, Daft Punk performed inMexico City.[29] They also performed on Friday 2 November 2007 at the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico and Guadalajara.[30]
Modular Records announced that Daft Punk would appear in Australia for an event in December 2007 called Never Ever Land.[31] Daft Punk were supported by their regular actsSebastiAn andKavinsky at the appearances, which had been announced as an extension to theAlive 2007 tour.[17] Never Ever Land toured to Melbourne at theSidney Myer Music Bowl, Perth at the Esplanade, Brisbane at the Riverstage and finally Sydney at theSydney Showground Main Arena.[32] ATriple 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.[33] Tickets for the Australian tour sold more quickly than for any Daft Punk-related event in their history.[34]
For the 2007 shows, Daft Punk added the tracks "Burnin'" and "Phoenix" and an encore.[9] 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."[35] The introduction for the live show featured the five-note sequence used inClose Encounters of the Third Kind.[36]
For the performances, Daft Punk usedAbleton Live software on "custom-made supercomputers"[3] controlled remotely withBehringer BCR2000MIDI controllers. They also usedMinimoog Voyager RME[3] 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.[3]
The tour visuals were set up by XL Video.[37] The company provided eight-coreMac Pro units running Catalyst v4 andFinal 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 toLED screens."[37]
The Alive 2007 tour was acclaimed.[38]The Times described the set as a "memorable sensory spectacle, both dazzling and deafening" andThisisLondon declared it "an almost faultless set of relentless electro euphoria".[23][39]NME wrote that the performance was "a robotic spectacular", while Shoutmouth described the set as "typically triumphant".[24][25] The tour is credited for bringing dance music to a wider audience, especially in North America.[40][41] TheGuardian journalist Gabriel Szatan likened it to theBeatles' 1964 performance onThe Ed Sullivan Show, which broughtBritish rock and roll to the American mainstream.[40]
| Date | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2006[a] | Indio | United States | Empire Polo Club |
| 30 June 2006[b] | Belfort | France | Lac de Malsaucy |
| 14 July 2006[c] | Barcelona | Spain | Parc del Fòrum |
| 15 July 2006[c] | Madrid | Boadilla del Monte | |
| 26 July 2006[d] | Stratford-upon-Avon | United Kingdom | Long Marston Airfield |
| 5 August 2006[e] | Zambujeira do Mar | Portugal | Herdade da Casa Branca |
| 12 August 2006[f] | Chiba | Japan | Makuhari Messe |
| 13 August 2006[f] | Osaka | WTC Open Air Stadium | |
| 19 August 2006[g] | Hasselt | Belgium | Domein Kiewit |
| 28 August 2006 | Dublin | Ireland | Marlay Park |
| 9 September 2006[h] | Warsaw | Poland | Służewiec Racetrack |
| 27 October 2006[i] | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Marina da Glória |
| 29 October 2006[i] | São Paulo | Tom Brasil | |
| 2 November 2006[j] | Santiago | Chile | Espacio Riesco |
| 4 November 2006[k] | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires |
| 11 November 2006[l] | Miami | United States | Bicentennial Park |
| 10 June 2007[m] | Inverness | Scotland | Clunes Farm |
| 14 June 2007 | Paris | France | Palais Omnisports Bercy |
| 16 June 2007[n] | London | England | Hyde Park |
| 17 June 2007[n] | Leeds | Harewood House | |
| 23 June 2007 | Istanbul | Turkey | Turkcell Kuruçeşme Arena |
| 26 June 2007 | Nîmes | France | Arena of Nîmes |
| 29 June 2007 | Düsseldorf | Germany | Philips Halle |
| 30 June 2007 | Berlin | Velodrom | |
| 4 July 2007 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Heineken Music Hall |
| 6 July 2007 | Esch-sur-Alzette | Luxembourg | Rockhal |
| 8 July 2007[o] | Naas | Ireland | Punchestown Racecourse |
| 12 July 2007[p] | Turin | Italy | Parco della Pellerina |
| 21 July 2007 | Los Angeles | United States | Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena |
| 27 July 2007 | Berkeley | Hearst Greek Theatre | |
| 29 July 2007 | Seattle | WaMu Theater | |
| 31 July 2007 | Morrison | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | |
| 3 August 2007[q] | Chicago | Grant Park | |
| 5 August 2007 | Mississauga | Canada | Arrow Hall |
| 7 August 2007 | Montreal | Bell Centre | |
| 9 August 2007 | New York City | United States | KeySpan Park |
| 27 October 2007[r] | Las Vegas | Sam Boyd Stadium | |
| 31 October 2007 | Mexico City | Mexico | Palacio de los Deportes |
| 2 November 2007 | Monterrey | Monterrey Arena | |
| 4 November 2007 | Zapopan | Telmex Auditorium | |
| 6 December 2007 | Kobe | Japan | World Memorial Hall |
| 8 December 2007 | Chiba | Makuhari Messe | |
| 9 December 2007 | |||
| 13 December 2007 | Melbourne | Australia | Sidney Myer Music Bowl |
| 14 December 2007 | |||
| 16 December 2007 | Perth | The Esplanade | |
| 20 December 2007 | Brisbane | Riverstage | |
| 22 December 2007 | Sydney | Showground Main Arena |
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 78/100[42] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [43] |
| The A.V. Club | B+[44] |
| The Boston Phoenix |  [45] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[46] |
| The Guardian | [47] |
| MSN Music (Consumer Guide) | A−[48] |
| NME | 7/10[49] |
| Pitchfork | 8.5/10[50] |
| Rolling Stone | [51] |
| Spin | [52] |
On the review aggregatorMetacritic,Alive 2007 has a score of 78 out of 100, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[53]Pitchfork regarded it as "the Ultimate Daft Punk Mixtape", finding that songs fromHuman After All had been "constantly improved and born anew" for the live set.[50] The sentiment was also shared byAllMusic, stating that "It has the feel of a greatest-hits-live concert, but energized by Daft Punk's talents at weaving songs in and out of each other."[43] AllMusic considered it weaker thanAlive 1997.[43] A review byThe Star noted that the release and Daft Punk's concurrent tours restored the duo's reputation following the mixed reception forHuman After All.[54] Critics also reconsidered songs fromHuman After All after they were integrated into the tour.[55]
Dave de Sylvia of Sputnikmusic gaveAlive 2007 a score of four stars out of five and said, "Despite a few individual disappointments,Alive 2007 is as exciting a collection of music as any released this year."[56]Entertainment Weekly felt that the live crowd enhanced the positive mood of the performance.[46]Rolling Stone stated thatAlive 2007 "loses some of the essential experience" of attending the live Daft Punk events.[51]The Boston Phoenix also felt that the album package would have benefited from more video content, expressing that a key factor of the live show was its implementation of visual elements.[45] In his first positive review for a Daft Punk album,Robert Christgau wrote that a full video representation was avoided because "too much scale, flesh and bodily effluvia would be lost".[48]Thomas Bangalter expressed his reasons of not releasing a DVD by stating "the thousands of clips on the internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released."[50]
At the51st Grammy Awards,Alive 2007 won theGrammy Award forBest Electronic/Dance Album, and the single "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" won forBest Dance Recording.[57]
All tracks are written byThomas Bangalter andGuy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, except where noted.[11]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Robot Rock / Oh Yeah" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo, Kae Williams | 6:27 |
| 2. | "Touch It /Technologic" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo,Trevor Smith,Swizz Beatz | 5:29 |
| 3. | "Television Rules the Nation / Crescendolls" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo, Dwight Brewster, Aleta Jennings | 4:50 |
| 4. | "Too Long / Steam Machine" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo,Anthony Moore | 7:01 |
| 5. | "Around the World /Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo,Edwin Birdsong | 5:42 |
| 6. | "Burnin' / Too Long" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo, Anthony Moore | 7:11 |
| 7. | "Face to Face / Short Circuit" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo,Todd Imperatrice | 4:55 |
| 8. | "One More Time /Aerodynamic" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo, Anthony Moore | 6:10 |
| 9. | "Aerodynamic Beats /Forget About the World" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo,Gabrielle, Ben Barson, Andy Dean, Ben Wolff | 3:31 |
| 10. | "Prime Time of Your Life / Brainwasher / Rollin' & Scratchin' / Alive" | 10:22 | |
| 11. | "Da Funk / Daftendirekt" | 6:36 | |
| 12. | "Superheroes /Human After All / Rock'n Roll" | Bangalter, de Homem-Christo,Barry Manilow,Marty Panzer | 5:41 |
| 13. | "Human After All /Together / One More Time /Music Sounds Better with You" | Bangalter,Stephane Quême, Keith Nash, Anthony Moore, Benjamin "Diamond" Cohen,Alain Quême,Frank Musker, Dominic King | 9:59 |
| Total length: | 83:54 | ||
Note: The physical standard edition of the album omits track 13.
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Australia (ARIA)[74] | Gold | 35,000^ |
| Belgium (BRMA)[75] | Platinum | 30,000* |
| France (SNEP)[76] | 2× Platinum | 200,000* |
| United Kingdom (BPI)[77] | Silver | 60,000* |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. | ||
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