Key Takeaways

• New Video Release: Daft Punk has released a new video for the track “Contact” as part of their collaboration with Fortnite.
• Animated Clip: The video features animated visuals that pay homage to the duo’s previous work, including Interstella 5555.
• Shortened Track: The video showcases a trimmed version of “Contact,” lasting four minutes and 48 seconds.
• Interactive Experience: The Daft Punk Experience in Fortnite includes 31 songs and interactive rooms for users to explore.

Daft Punk is making contact.

As part of the new collaboration with Fortnite, the French duo has released a new video for track “Contact,” the epic closer of its 2013 Grammy-winning album, Random Access Memories.

The new animated clip finds the robots careening through space and borrows imagery from Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, the 2003 anime film created as a companion piece for the duo’s 2001 album, Discovery.

The new music video also uses a trimmed version of the song, which in this video version clocks in at four minutes and 48 seconds, down from the six-minute and 23 second original.

Created by Epic Games and Magnopus, the visual comes as part of the new Daft Punk Experience that launched in Fortnite in September. The experiences includes 31 songs from the duo’s catalog featured throughout several interactive rooms in the game. Users can also create song mashups, make their game avatars dance at a “Daft Club” featuring footage from the band’s Alive tour and Alive 2007 live album, and make Lego music videos featuring the band.

In what was perhaps an Easter egg for this new video, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter played “Contact” in his October set in Paris at Because Beaubourg, a retrospective exhibition of French label Because Music. The performance, during which Bangalter played alongside Ed Banger founder Busy P, electro titan Erol Alkan and phenom Fred again.., was the Daft Punk member’s first public DJ set in 16 years.

Watch the new video for “Contact” below.