Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter (b. 1975, Paris) is a French musician and composer, and co-founder with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of the electronic music duo Daft Punk, formed in Paris in 1993 and disbanded in 2021. Daft Punk's four studio albums — Homework (1997), Discovery (2001), Human After All (2005), and Random Access Memories (2013) — are among the most influential records in electronic and popular music of the past three decades. Random Access Memories received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2014.

In parallel with Daft Punk, Bangalter has sustained a wide-ranging activity as a producer and composer for others. He founded the independent house music label Roulé and, as a member of the trio Stardust alongside Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond, produced "Music Sounds Better with You" (1998), one of the defining tracks of the French house movement. He composed the score for Gaspar Noé's Irréversible (2002), building its hypnotic, infrasonic architecture around frequencies designed to produce physical unease in the viewer. He has also contributed to various projects under different aliases, consistently operating across electronic music production, collaborative composition, and work for the concert stage and cinema.

Following Daft Punk's dissolution, Bangalter composed Mythologies, a full-length orchestral ballet with choreography by Aurélien Bory, which premiered at the Opéra national de Bordeaux in 2022 and subsequently toured major opera houses and theaters in France and internationally.