It is not hard to guess that they called the new project Daft Punk. They disbanded Darling and started creating electronica as a duo in 1993. However, the review did not offend the musicians - on the contrary, they found the critical overview to be extremely amusing.
Local critics described one of their performances in the Great Britain as 'daft punk'. It is hard to imagine, but at that time, the future electronica monsters played the mixture of punk and indie-rock, covering the hit songs of other collectives. They became best friends, invited one more artist, and started recording music under the name of Darling in 1992. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, citizens of Paris, were acquainted in their native city in the far 1987.