Back in October 2025, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter gave a rare public performance, DJing alongside Fred again.. at Because Music’s 20th anniversary party in Paris. It was Bangalter’s first gig in 16 years—and a taste of what was to come a few months later when he joined Fred again..—again—for the final show of the USB002 tour at London’s Alexandra Palace. What results is a sort of dance music alchemy: a legend of the form playing back-to-back with its most well-known modern torchbearer, two fans of the highest order fueling each other through a set of classic tunes that contextualize house and rave as a through line for later-20th and 21st century popular music. It begins with a declaration—Chuck Roberts’ “In the Beginning (There Was Jack)”—and moves through a blend of Daft Punk’s “One More Time,” Fred’s “Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing”), and the Motown standard "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, hitting ’90s house and techno touchstones from Wildchild, 808 State, and LFO along the way. There are curious connections (Skepta’s grime, Dylan Brady’s dubstep, Animal Collective’s indie rock), grander points of reference (Prince, Gil Scott-Heron), and bursts of sheer release (Lil Jon and USHER). But where it all comes back into sharp focus is when Fred—hands intertwined on the decks with the exalted Bangalter’s—drops Daft Punk’s “Teachers,” a roll call of a track about standing on the shoulders of the dance music giants who’ve come before. "I usually have a rule that I don’t watch anything back,” Fred wrote online about the set. “I just do the thing and then try to stay present and just sorta keep working on writing music. But, yeah, with this, I justtttt. Can’t. Stop. Probably because a lot of it isn’t my music, so it’s not subject to my usual very critical inner voice about stuff. Instead, I’m just a fan more proud of a sort of human moment than anything else.”