Daft Punk share storyboards for original ‘Around The World’ music video

It looks like Daft Punk are up to something.

Yesterday, April 13, the pair teased all 5.3 million of their YouTube subscribers with a rarely seen video revealing the storyboard behind the iconic ‘Around The World’ music video.

The 1997-released track, which was accompanied by a video directed by French director Michel Gondry, now boasts some 19 million views on YouTube. The video originally only appeared exclusively on a DVD released the same year.

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In the new video posted yesterday, Daft Punk show a snippet of the original storyboard used to create the colourful music video, which featured dancers running up and down a staircase clad in glitzy costumes.

The video appeared last night, captioned quite simply: “Daft Punk Archive #86 - Around The World - The Music Video Storyboard”.

The placement, movement, and choreography of each dancer is detailed in the newly revealed storyboard, giving a peek into the pair’s extensive artistic process.

Such storyboards originally appeared on Daft Punk’s 1997-released D.A.F.T DVD alongside the original music video. The track landed on the pair’s most heralded record, ‘Homework’, which received a reissue in February for its 25th anniversary.

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Another surprise from the pair came earlier this week when they launched a brand new website under paftpunk.com, a mysterious site leaving no real detail other than the newly shared video.

So far, the site features the storyboard video under the title ‘Archive #86’, alongside a link to input your email address and links to buy the reissue of 1997’s ‘Homework’.

Earlier in the week, the website simply featured the words “archive loading” above a loading bar, with little other information.

So, what are Daft Punk up to? Your guess is as good as ours, but it looks like a trove of archive footage could be on its way.

Gemma Ross is Mixmag's Editorial Assistant, follow her on Twitter