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Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter Wears Human Costume, DJs in L.A.

Since the face been revealed, game got real

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What's this? Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter is not, in fact, a robot? He's a flesh-and-blood homosapien? In an extra-medium Nike shirt? With a receding hairline? Look. OK. I'm sorry. It's just going to take me a while to accept this.

Stereogum reports that Bangalter showed up Tuesday night to the birthday party of Busy P, the man behind the French filter-house label Ed Banger and Daft Punk's former manager. The party went down at the L.A. club Cinespace, and judging by the YouTube evidence below, it was a whole lot of fun. At some point, Bangalter invaded the mass of sweaty dudes in the DJ booth and took over the turntables for a quick three-track set: Daft Punk own's "Rollin' & Scratchin'", DJ Mehdi's "Signatune", and Prince's "Raspberry Beret". Chaos ensued.

Reps for Daft Punk haven't yet confirmed that it was definitely actually Bangalter behind those chunky sunglasses, so our illusions will remain intact for a little while longer. But the DJ booth mob kept doing the pyramid-sign thing and then pointing at him, so yeah, that was probably Bangalter. Plus, as Stereogum points out, Twitter was all over it.

Please don't let me find out that the other member of Daft Punk, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, is also human. I just couldn't handle that right now.

YouTubes (via Stereogum) below.