I humbly vow to Their Robotic Majesties, who gave one of the best shows my eyes and ears have ever experienced.

In a really cold week, wednesday arrived with a slightly warmer climate, it was October, 31st and the adopted and highly disseminated Halloween costumes were everywhere, but this particular time many of the costumes looked like robots.

As we rushed towards the outdated and grotesque Palacio de los Deportes, Ángel, a friend and collaborator, told us that Sussie 4, the electro rock music assemble from Guadalajara, were the opening act, we instantly slowed our pace, I mean, they are an OK band, but nothing to be speeding up about. When we arrived the band was about to finish their carelessly equalized performance, when they did, their last words were: “…and now the really good stuff, Daft Punk!” the crowd, who wasn’t still at full size, cheered and a black courtain closed upon them.

The background music, involving mainly old-school rap, was setting the mood and, suddenly, Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley bursted. The time had come, the lights were killed, the musical silence was overwhelmed by the ovation of a now totally crowd-stuffed venue. The notes from the main title of Close Encounters of the Third Kind started the show.

The courtain opened and there they were, wow! …in the heart of an outer-space pyramid you could see Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter inside their leather jumpsuits, designed by Hedi Slimane, filling our hearts and minds with sizzling music and unbelievable lights. From that moment on the experience was simply phenomenal, like nothing on the face of this earth.

The music and their hits were assembled and mixed live with almost two hours of ever-shocking and completely synchronized audiovisual extasis, that finished over a house encore and whoa! …those magnificent red lights all over the LED helmets, created by the company LED Effects, along with the reminder that Their Robotic Majesties are human after all. We can outline Daft Punk’s spectacle in just one word: Exquisite.

Their album Alive will see the light in 2008. (photos by André Felipe)