When Daft Punk ended , the news did not arrive as a conventional announcement. There was no long explanation, no final interview, just a cryptic video, a handful of images, almost no words. Even in disappearing, the duo added one last layer to the myth. Then Thomas Bangalter , one half of the duo, dropped off the radar, as if the man behind the mask also had to disappear for a while before stepping back into the world on different terms.  Over the past few months, that reemergence has looked