"Guy-Manuel de Homen Christo and Thomas Bangalter, better know under the name Daft Punk are the uncontested kings of the French Touch" "Worldwide superstars, they not only brought back the fashion of full face helmets, they also sold millions of albums interplanetary hits like Da Funk or Get Lucky and dream collaboration with Pharrel Williams, Neil Rodgers, or Hanz Zimmer." "They are ultra secret, hyper talented, and they musical odyssey is 20 years old." "So for the first time tonight, Canal+ remove the helmet for 90 minutes of happiness with Daft Punk !" "we try to always make new things we are too used to have shitty finished products!" "who made the biggest revolutionary change in dance music ?" "everybody will tell you Daft Punk !" "they are robots, they don't need to be like everybody else" "everyone knows Daft Punk" "When listening to One More Time, Around The World feel that "thing", and feel good" "Daft Punk is one of these bands, that reflected on their music before doing it, which change a lot of things and strangely, the invention of robots is what let them being humans stay down to earth, to stay free" "It's at that price that they bought their liberty, by sending the robots to do the dirty work for them" "Publishing a 45" on the same label as Stereolabs was really an event, great pride, and the beginning of a story" "Guy-Manuel and Thomas by their 17/18 years old told themselves "that's it"" ""everything is on track"" "but the critics of Melody Maker naming them of daft punky, failed punk" "I think it has been a little break at that moment it changed their optimism regarding the music they were doing" "It took me maybe 6 months to get two new tracks from them it's not that they were lazy," "I think they didn't want to go that way it was a way to say "yes yes next week, next week you'll get them"" "was a polite way to say "actually we don't give a shit"" ""and we are already think about something else"" "at 18 the first time we go to a rave it was on the roofs of Beaubourg (Paris)" "We discover a different kind of music as well as an energy of people dancing on musics they don't know and with something at that time that is alternative and totally underground, and not the music we can hear on the radio" "and we think, oh that's interesting there is something to do with electronic music" "we were there with Thomas and Guy-Manuel and as close as we got to the rave, we started to feel these well-known vibrations by the way there is a track from Chicago named" ""Can you feel the bass" with a dark voice saying:" ""Cannn youuu feeel thee basssss"" "it's the last true musical revolution from these last decades we have on one hand electronic music, and on the other hand hip hop after that, every trends are coming from these two." "The amazing thing with that sound is that you didn't need to turn up the volume of bass, to feel the vibrations" "a lot of times I saw people in the crowd closing the eyes and moving and swinging to really feel what they were listening to" "you could see their body express itself like sound was going through their chest" "don't fool yourself, a lot of people were at the same time discovering drugs also." "I know one day Thomas told me: "I don't like it because when you take ecstasy, it removes all critical thinking"." "from that quote, it's all clear there is one thing he hates, it's to lose control." "we met Thomas and Guy-Manuel when we came to play in Paris" "Someone introduced us to them isn't it?" "yes, he presented us, and said" ""these two guys would like to meet you"" "they adore the label and your track "positive education"" "they might want to hang out with you to listen some music" "I called them and told them, come I have a surprise for you take your demo with you" "I remember these two french boys, very shy, discret, they arrive, I open the door and I see Guy-man looking at me with eyes like that "but why, what is happening ?"" "they get in the living room, with eyes wide open, Guy-Man turning red, and I tell them, "voilà, I present you to people from Slam"." "We were all sitting there and they put their music on and the track that came out of stereo hi-fi was so incredible for guys so discret, it was like BOOM BOOM BOOM" "Daft Punk " The New Wave"" "Thomas invited us to his Father's studio." "We sat down to listen again the track and a few weeks later, it was the telephone era, so we called" "and we ask them to send the K7 we touched nothing, and it became their first release." "we didn't had a name, so we thought, let's use the name of that negative critics the stupid punks in english" "actually they have a very clear vision of their career, because some will advise them, and it's Daniel Bangalter who actually is Thomas' Father, who is a disco producer from the 70's with the stage name "Daniel Vangarde"" "and that's him who will help them to make the choices and have clairvoyance between everything that is presented to them he was actually the ideal adviser for a band who was planning to make music about dance, produced in France, sung in English" "and aim to the whole world we received faxes from Denmark, Sweden," "Spain, Japan, New York but we sold only 15000 copies, it's really amusing, but it also shows that there is an audience, and people interested about that music" "I remember one day when i visited the offices of Soma Records," "They stopped answering phone with "hi here is Soma Records"" ""Hi, here is Daft Punk"" "phone was ringing non-stop for them things happened at a very fast pace for that time" "Thomas was playing a track when a wire from his mixing console unplugged itself" "and you know when you replug the wire you hear that noise" "he was using that sound as a basis for the next track, it was genius" "When I met them in 1995 between the Scottish label, their energy and their talent" "Daft Punk on stage had already succeeded a demand" "Pedro Winter has been a privilege witness of Daft Punk for more than 10 years" "What I was answering is that the group are in Studio, recording their first album right now it's not possible" "from a technical point of view it's impressive, it's music made in a bedroom, not bigger than here" "with wires everywhere it's a kid bedroom, not even teenager with wires everywhere, synths, bidules and the two albums which changed electronic music has been produced there" "(note: the french voiceover of Giorgio is hilarious)" "I started using a synthetizzzzer in early 70's my first hit was "son of my father"" "it's was actually the first Pop song on which you can hear a synthetizzzeeerrrr and I used it (the synthetizzzer) a lot afterwards" "When I did "I feel love"" "the SYNTHETIZZZER took a lot of importance especially in the dance music world we don't hear dance music anymore without hearing..." "SYNTHETIZZZZZEEEEERRRRR with a music software you can produce any sound drums, ass, and even guitar now it's a formidable instrument" "the specificity of our music and of our work is that there is a real interaction between our music and technology where technic and technologie is in a way a true member of the band" "Thomas is the little genius of machines" "I clearly remember at the times of the first album, he was telling me" "I read the manuals of my machines once a month" "Thomas was one of the first to have a Macintosh in France which enabled him to get used on working on music and images with computers very early" "but you should not think he has only this, because artistically he's someone who finds melodies "super top"" "who has a sense for the "hit"" "Guy-man... him, it's mystical." "For him there is one one thing, and not two so until he hasn't found it, everything else is shit!" "(Tout le reste, c'est d'la merde!" ")" "They made excellent choices, and that's what is production it's a processus of elimination" "I know know they had a retro way of making their music" "Stupid, it's "Around The World VS Harder Better Faster Stronger (Alive 2007)" "Well it was right from the start from the very first album everything originated from the trio Thomas, Guy-Man and Pedro Winter, and the relationship they had with their record label" "The contract we signed with the major, is 100% good for us because we can avoid all the problems that artists had before with the majors" "the deal they signed with Virgin was a new way of doing because the norm was to sign the artist for 4 or 5 albums but the Daft said, no no it's not going to work that way," "we stay owner of our work, we give you the right to use it for 10 years" "I learned a lot from that, and notably that what is important and what makes the beautiful stories is to have good foundation" "Early on they had the idea to make an international deal they already had a vision on their career well thought their album was nearly done I think" "from the first album, the business model was set up already they knew they had to keep their artistic freedom on everything control of the image, control of everything" "they imposed their rules from A to Z, because they were able to because they were not out of cash they were not starving kids this business model influenced many hip hop bands afterwards" "saying it's the biggest hold up of history" "Daft Punk" " Indo Silver Club" "they invited us to come listen to the album in Thomas small flat we came with the team of Virgin London and some from France" "it's was marvellous, we hear it on a Ghetto Blaster" "we had a revelation moments, because we heard hits after hits" "You know when Da Funk came out with that MV on MTV, they were here, and they went up up up they became so important" "it was probably one of their mot important work they obviously did other genial things, but that MV was very important" "the Music Video of Spike Jonze has a big impact" "I think mIchel Gondry heard about Daft Punk and has that luminous idea of turning Around The World music into images" "funny moment, Michel Gondry is looking for the remote control of the AMP and drop a classic French rant about it" "So I met them in a hotel room" "in London" "I was on the bed, and they were on chairs" "I don't like to come with an idea before talking with the band because I don't want to be out of touch, and start having wrong leads" "I think it's Guy-Manuel who talked about a choreography first," "And I ask Florence Fontaine my stylist, we didn't have a lot of budget," "I asked her to make me robots so she took full faces motorcycle helmets she added antennas (like reddit!" ")" "and we added a semi transparent material on the glass" "It seems I was the one who decided to use the helmet to look like robots" "we are going to start with a stupid question with techno it's about underground spirit, and against star system but you start to become stars, what is your point of view on this fact ?" "we try to to get exposed too much," "I think only music really matters after people can decide for themselves, but we don't try to exhibit ourselves so much" "the choice of not showing their faces was made when they decided to enter the top player world by signing with Virgin and having the ambition to rivalise with pop culture" "Before they were releasing Maxis on a Scottish label which was a niche, a recent movement, underground, without a real reason to protect oneself hiding your face is part of the techno culture" "the founding fathers of Techno like Underground Resistance didn't wanted to show their faces when the techno culture arrived it was the faceless culture something that doesn't exist today is that people where dancing with their back to the DJ" "a lot of American bands have done it before it's not a new thing" "Kraftwerk, Kiss every pop stars are invention, they are people who invented themselves they didn't born pop-stars, they became" "David Bowie when i'm talking to him, I don't don't to which one I talk to but never to the david bowie who was born in London in 1947" "this is a way to stay anonymous they did a few photo-shoots at the beginning" "I think they though that, voilà, we just have kids faces what can we do that is more creative, and more interesting it was part of the reflection also, how to get old, continue to play music when we have 40 years old" "when Homework arrives, they are the big thing that change the 90's and bring a new wave with electronic music" "therefore it's obvious that all the biggest pop star are asking for them and work with them" "artists from the whole world called to see if they could collaborate with them from Janet Jackson to Madonna, George Michael" "Thomas and Guy-Man have always been very polite, but never collaborated" "(Thomas) Me, I can't see anything" "(Guy-Man) (we can really can't see, we have to walk really slowly" "I remember I went to buy some masks at the latest moment for the cover of NMI magazine" "we chose cheap mask , it was not very well prepared" "In japan they were going one hour before to buy costumes to use them as camouflage" "actually they didn't want to play the game there is a good story from the meeting with the Virgin team in New York at the end of the meeting we were about to go to a restaurant and a big limo was waiting for us (very american)" "Thomas and Guy-man see that they don't like it at all so they decide to escape by running and then I 'm alone with Virgin in that limo" "So they went by subway to the restaurant it's a reject, a philosophical position" "we don't want to participate to that circus" "I spend most of my time being generous be grateful" "I think they are a duo of unique entities" "I always have difficulties to consider them as humans, because musically these robots are really different you can't imagine what it is to work with them" "everything is concise, there is a reason for everything everything has a sense of purpose" "they never made concessions for me they were destined to bring music to this world and remind people that feeling good isn't so hard when you have good music" "is that anonymity enables you to be closer to the public ?" "Thomas: we do live exceptional moments, but we have day-to-day lives a lot more normal and similar to the one of our publique than artist who may have a similar celebrity as ours but have a physical recognition to it" "the band, notably Thomas, had a fascination for the Y2K how to explain the transition from two guys wearing mask, and starting 1 january 2000 they become robots?" "Well, Y2K was how we tried to explain it to journalists they were in the studio and at midnight, something happened and Thomas and Guy-Man transformed themselves into robots" "I remember when Thomas told me they were making the helmets at 20 years old I would never think about doing that, who would do that ?" "we are not dead, but we have become robots" "I think the masks reflect their personality perfectly because it's easy to remove them if it was glory you are looking for" "but they didn't want it when they got successful they didn't started to have a expensive way of living" "Even so successful I would say they are living in a very humble way from a materialistic point of view they reinvest in their art, and I love that concept" "I remember well of the first tests we drove so long so I hope it would be great" "and we met Tony Gardner from ALTERIAN INC." "looks like a nerd, with his small glasses with monsters head, all around him" "that is the process we used to create the Daft Punk helmets once the plaster is put, we remove the two parts and we remove the Alginic from the face it's so delicate, you need to make sure not to break it" "it was very difficult to breath especially for guy-man." "We had to add a deviation to let him breath from inside, then put all the LEDs, the mechanism and then the helmet itself" "we didn't wanted to make it too big and look like a big head on a small body so we refined the design and compress everything a lot closer to his head" "when we first met, they told us they were making a series of videos for their album but each video, actually was part of a full featured animation film" "they were working on it in Tokyo and they wanted to collaborate with us to discuss about the design of their characters" "they wanted to be discovered for the first time as robots in their own movie" "As for 2001, we don't talk to two young guys that we met in music shops, we talk to robots" "it was astonishing, with the last interview I did with them we talked for two or three hours and I believe Thomas never used the pronom "I"" "that's crazy ?" "that pronom ceased to exist they are Daft Punk and at the same time a very ludic side like they control everything, yet they are still making gags and remains kids they are still young" "I remember well the first time I listened to "One More Time"" "it was a very powerful track, very electronic with a lot of "joie de vivre"" "I think it was during a prize ceremony on MTV" "I was always watching it being young." "in that track it had singing, but electronic singing it was so different from everything that happened on stage" "different from all these Pop stars and rock stars it was their own things" "That's this sound that made Daft Punk an inimitable band especially in America" "One More Time is the track that open the US to them" "it's crazy that it's two little white guys from Paris who made popular the music invented by black americans in Detroit and Chicago" "I find it staggering that you need that to make (mainstream) america discover House music" "I think they lost a few fans at that moment those who liked them for the "drafty" side" "the first album is an homage at their past experience and their love to House music" "It's the second album that really marked the beginning of their musical identity they said, that's the music we want to do" "and they started to give us more conventional track, from a writing point of view more melodic but their references have always been from the 70's" "they had an opportunity to start during a technologic revolution of the home studio which as the consequence of letting them spend as much as time as they want to record their album compare before when you have studio time constraints." "They can spend 4 years at home making their album because it cost nothing" "the revolution of home studio is that a musician can do everything a band could do before, but as a solo you don't need to have all these instruments because you have everything you need under your hands with just a few equipments" "it's a very important album in the history of pop music because it's one of the first album "post-sample"" "where you make music by building it with other sounds" "sampling is about cutting music, take a short loop which becomes itself music but they manipulated so much that they became hard to recognise" "they had gigantic ambitions in their work for the second album, they had decided to make at the same time" "Interstella a Japanese animated movie without speech, living only on music" "it was a music video that becomes a full length movie they produced it themselves" "never a music record company would have finance films like that for Daft Punk, it's not just about making music it's create a universe and protect it from outside interferences" "answers to no hierarchy, a very punk and rebel state of mind in the end" "the story of Interstella is visionary it was 10 years before these big TV shows in which many artists and bands plays and then they are chained with the TV for life" "the idea of working with Leiji Matsumoto was simple, they made a wish list and Leiji was first" "Leiji Matsumoto is the father of Captain Harlock (Albator in French)" "So generation 1975/85 we were fascinated by the Japanese anime and by Captain Harlock who was different to the others kiddy and dozy" "Captain Harlock has a slash, is a pirate" "I don't know if we can say he's a rebel, but he's on the fringes of society" "for me, robots have a human heart he is a calm and non violent being" "if needed he protects humans, and becomes their shield" "maybe it's from the representation of ghosts from Japanese tradition" "their not demoniac monsters but beings with heart and soul and expressing themselves freely" "I often make say to my hero Captain Harlock:" ""I live freely under my banner, but in exchange I assume all of my responsibilities it's on that motto that all artists should create their art" "it was also a form of reaction to Discovery which was very very ambitious" "to come back to things, rawer." "Human After All, we are going to record it in two weeks, this is the result of the music we want to do the reception of Human After All, was confused for many people, press, even in the label" "it was harder to present that album with no radio singles, so we had to find a way make people talk about that album" "I think people didn't understand" "people are often used to believe first album is good, second is a success, and third is even better." "Them, I think they were not after success" "I think what they really wanted as to express what they felt inside it was a thing to say, look at Daft Punk latest album, it's not as good we were waiting for something else they're done... these were the discussions at that time" "Daft Punk did no promotion for this album (which is false btw...)" "We thought the album would talk by itself" "it's very interesting to see that years after the same critics will reevaluate that disc and will find out that this album was very influential also at his time because it influenced many french producers that we called the french touch 2.0" "which was really inspired by the energy that the Daft had and the return to raw sounds and techno that hit hard people like Justice, and all that new generation comes directly from Human After All" "Actually the movie clip produced for Human After All was the starting point of" "Electroma the clip became the full length movie Electroma" "it was a movie about robot, living in a world of robots and who wanted to become something else in that case become humans" "to be honest at the end of Electroma when the robots (SPOILLLEEEERRR) we thought it was the end of Daft Punk the robots disguised themselves as humans then commit suicide at the end of Electroma everybody think, maybe they've put in pictures a message they wanted to give us" "maybe daft punk will end" "Noooooooo !" ":'(" "Personally I though about it maybe they will stop the robot masks and they will arrive with a new idea, ok we show our faces maybe they also though about it too." "They had the good idea of simplifying the robots they came with black leather one foot in Mad Max and one foot in Tron" "I'll drink the Pulco !" "They have a great name "punk"" "that's what I'll be until the end of my life" "so many artists are under influence of money they lose their voice they forget their voice is their most important gift" "Music is where a revolution can happen it's where two strangers can find themselves side by side where all the stereotypes can disappear because at the end of the day, if people dance, there is still hope, it's that simple" "that girl is super hot (/O_0)" "Kanye talking about himself...boring" "you always have to fight for your own freedom" "Coachella is in the south of California, near LA it's the unmissable music festival of the year, everybody goes it has become a major event for the industry of live music in the US" "If the first time you play at Coachella and you hit hard, you will for sure become a star" "Coachella is a machine that creates stars and every years they try to make come Daft Punk without success" "In 2005 they offer 1/4 of a 10^6$ and they said no next year they pumped up the offer" "300 000$ for a Daft Punk show..." "I say to the american agent, effectively they don't tour but the offer is important, the festival is sexy let me talk about it to the band" "Coachella 2006 is a huge gamble because the band is losing momentum, people think they are has been" "they think Daft Punk have not been able to renew themselves with HAA and in the electronic music world where you have to be always up to date" "they were considered as dead" "I don't remember if they call me back the same day or 3 days later but they say "tell them we might be interested." "Normally for a live performance the promoter pay in advance 10% of the fees" "But Daft Punk didn't stop asking more than the original amount because they needed it to create their show" "Almost no one knew what would happen, it was a complete secret, except for the technical staff, even their manager knew next to nothing" "I arrive maybe 10 days before Coachella in a rehearsal room and I see all this all the setup the pyramids and all these walls of leds" "nowadays everybody has leds and even in nightclub at that time I remember to cover the pyramid with leds we had to ask all dealers in the US they came from everywhere, it wasn't that easy" "Thomas and Guy-Man tell me sit down and we are alone in that room and start doing the show but just audio, I don't have the right to see the lights" "audio which is a mix of the 3 albums the last act of the night just before Daft Punk was Audio Bullys" "Normally there is a half hour break between shows and here, one hour." "they made people wait for one hour the whole backstage was empty everybody had to go out" "when the time comes we go there and dress up the band put the helmets" "I run everywhere, giving bracelet to the record label and the tent gets filled so much, it overflew!" "we say "oula!" the return of Daft Punk is highly expected, we look at the numbers, there are 30000, 40000 people but how it's possible, the tent is only 10000?" "!" "everybody was like, what will happen?" "and then the pyramid arrived" "it took a lot of time before seeing everything, all the effects" "nobody had seen something like that before no one had seen such a level of production no one had seen so many leds, and that quality of visual effects they were at a level so high in term of production compare to anyone else" "everybody who was watching that were sending text messages to everybody else" "you are missing the best how ever" "everybody in the dance world I know told me "yeah my cellphone exploded that day"" "like you miss the best show ever" "everybody put their phones out it was the beginning of video on phones and post on Youtube" "and it became something crazy where everybody went wild because of the power of the show and people were recording and everybody was putting it on youtube after" "I cried, I was so moved, by the force of the show the reaction of people which was unreal" "it Encounter OF the third kind but for real there is a ship on the middle of the desert and we are 40 000 dazzled by lights, hammered by the sound, and happy" "In the crowd a lot of people from the industry were there" "Coachella is the meet up for all passionate people so the rock-heads who didn't stop saying during years and years what' the big deal ?" "I don't get it, why they are doing nothing on stage ?" "where are the guitars?" "They finally got it." "and for the very first time the hardcore of rock said:" "so that's what people like ?" "it's about that people were talking all these years" "The pyramid and the gigantic world tour is the starting point of EDM" "there is a generation of musician who were in the room and discover it and are in awe" "When Daft Punk came in LA in 2007 I went alone" "I bought a ticket to a guy for 150$" "I spent all my money but it really changed my life it turned my brain inside out, but in a good way." "I knew their album before but seeing them live was incredible their talent to invent new remixes" "I understood how you could recreate your music live, it's in me now" "Youtube Videos of Skrillex have more than 2*10^9 views all together (seriously who cares ?" ")" "Wahooo!" "I am here back in the Electric Lady music Studio" "You can't realise the history I have with that place" "Here, I worked on Random Access Memories" "But it's also here that I recorded my first ever single" ""Dance Dance Dance"" "Let's enter the room..." "This is Studio A" "when we play in that room, we use to say there is voodoo because of "Voodoo Child" of Jimmy Hendrix it's like there is a spirit inside these walls" "Spending time in studio was costing a lot of money so we must organise the sessions like a train time schedule so I told them my story we didn't had a lot of money at that time therefore we got inside, set up, then start to record immediately" "Daft Punk are huge fans of Chic so when they realised that they were in the same room in which we recorded the first single of Chic o how did you compose your music ?" "So I answered: "well typically what we would do is" "I was writing the main chord progression and then listen the bass line, once that one was decided" "I developed it" "So in the case of a music like Get Lucky the chord progression was... these are the chords usually what I do then is... and then I play!" "when they hear that they told me "oh my god this is cool"" "If I didn't have to leave to record another track, we would still be here composing music because it's so exiting to work with people you respect doing live music to take ideas from each others to share back and forth" "there is no better feeling than creating something from nothing" "it's the music story too, all these musicians, drummers, bassists, etc... it's difficult to resume that there are all studio musicians and at that time 15 years ago, even so, we say it a lot but" "the dream of house music was to make the spirit of dance and disco survive a bit longer which wasn't there anymore" "they wanted to take the opportunity of the fact that people like Giorgio Moroder and others were still alive to be able to work with them and see what it could create" "Thomas would have done it much earlier if he knew how to handle it but it's only after having worked on the Disney's movie Tron Legacy that they collaborated with musicians and orchestra they felt more confident and inspired" "I think that with Tron they go back with a student mindset of people who want to learn and this would have been really hard, because they built Daft Punk so that they never have to receive orders from anyone" "and now they put themselves under command of one of the biggest corporation of the world." "It's walking into the lion's den." "We were in the studio to mix the electronic and orchestral music everything was done when someone suggested to remove electronic and keep only the orchestra on that part?" "I was sitting there, and I wanted to cry, it's to sad, it's terrible so in the end they did the reverse, by removing the orchestra" "but then it wasn't sounding so well either so we decided to put all together again and it was a totally unified body, it was sounding majestic" "it was exactly what Thomas and Guy-man wanted for the movie when they heard the orchestra for the first time on Tron" "They were like kids in a candy shop it's what gave birth to their last album they told themselves " we can do it"" "all that world emerged in a fraction of second, when Gavin raised his baton and said "go"" "Artists like Daft Punk always go further you just need to look at their story to understand it is obvious from the very first day they keep the same direction they just got better" "with their last album, they got the opportunity to make a disc that reflect that by showing advanced attention to the recording process, honours these great techniques that modernity made obsolete" "During 4 years Daft Punk work on Random Access Memories" "Daft Punk is a good exemple my guitar is pure" "there is no effect" "I'm only playing guitar" "On "Give Live Back To Music" and "Lose Yourself To Dance"" "are exemples of track which features only guitars, bass and drums" "they were able to catch the incredible sound of my StratoCaster when I heard the tracks, I found them beautiful" "it was an incredible tribute to that guitar" "I exchanged it with my old guitar and they gave me 300$ because she was worthless they were happy to get rid of it imagine my life if I didn't had that guitar, everything would be so different" "Neil很可爱！" "I can tell you that story, I arrived at the studio in Paris" "I sat down and they tell me to talk about my life they had 3 microphones" "So I asked them, Why 3 mics for an interview?" "the mic on the left is very old it's the one we will use when you talk about your childhood" "the one in the middle they said it was the kind of mic used to record during the 70's" "and the one on the right is the most recent and modern" "I said "but who will hear the difference?"" "the technician said, no one." "So I asked why are they doing that then ?" "but they (Daft Punk) will hear it" "I know from fact that all the major actors of that business spent a lot of time in the studio listening to Daft Punk trying to figure out how they were able to realise it?" "They want to have a sound like Daft Punk" "Having a drum sound like Daft Punk" "Make music like Daft Punk" "They know it for sure and they are very proud of that." "It's so easy to make music nowadays have access to all these tools, computers, softwares." "What can we do that isn't easy, that no one was able to do before ?" "4 years in studio, it's crazy so at the end when we finished mixing it was out of question to leave sight of the Master Tapes" "hence our new journey... Random Access Sandwich" "We decided to deliver ourselves the Tapes to Bob Ludwig the "King" of Mastering Engineering" "We didn't trust anyone so we drove from LA to Portland" "If the tapes were lost" "I think I would have changed my name and become deep diving monitor in Costa Rica or something like this" "each tape is unique everything was unique and it was in the trunk of the car" "It sounds like the music of a MGM production of an old school dramatic movie this is life, it's essence of life it' a gift of life everything is in that music" "and then dream beyond dream, this is where life is" "In any case Phantom Of Paradise when we met with Thomas when we had 12,13 years old it was really the movie that contains all the things," "a bit like the trips of Andy Warhol, in which there is not only music but also the image, the artwork, there is everything and in that movie, everything was within" "you create a mystery with the mask and the mystery is fascinating without the artistic capabilities that they proved they have it would have been noting more but a gadget but because they are Daft Punk and they and they give such a level of quality" "it's far from a mere gadget, it's far more than this it make me think of these great quotes like give a mask to a man and he will tell you the truth" "I think anonymity has been something very important for them." "beyond their right of having a private life, families, and be able to walk on the beach or anywhere, outside of their career" "Over the 212 km that link LA to Coachella billboards announce the release date of RAM" "When they went to there label to talk about the promotion of RAM" "They took with them a book about billboards of sunset trip in the 80's these kind of ads were everywhere" "it was the golden age of music industry" "they clearly had a fascination for that time period" "I think that fascination, helped them decide to establish their homes in LA in 2004" "With RAM, I figured out that that fascination of the 70's and 80's was the very essence of that project" "It's funny that all the fans of Daft Punk in the US pretend to have been at Coachella when Daft Punk played there in 2006" "But the majority where not there, they just saw the videos on Youtube all the country could not have been there the thing with Daft Punk is that they tour rarely" "so when they do, it creates a lot of excitement and everyone is wondering if they will do other shows one day" "Every year in Coachella Daft Punk is in everybody's mouth regardless if they have a new album or not everybody talks about it you can hear "where is daft punk"" "and the rumour grows friends will say 'I saw them backstage' or 'I saw a robot helmet' or 'I heard they will play during Kanye West show." "During Coachella 2013" "the band Yeah Yeah Yeah gets ready to go on stage when... we were there, we were all there in the crowd" "we came to assist to that event we discretely joined the crowd at Coachella" "it was incredible to see all these people completely "unchained"" "the first minute of Get Lucky is unveiled we started to see pictures everywhere on the internet, a real moment" "It was unbelievable here was a combination of many historic artists on stage who compose a lot of music we grew up with" "the masters it was such another level" "the part I loved the much during that night was after the first award" "Pharell and the guys came back offstage and Thomas removed his helmet and we all read in his eyes we, we don't say anything, and you Pharell you have to talk more Love and Passion was readable in Thomas eyes," "" we don't talk, we are robots, you have to explain all the magic" "that evening for the first time a band from the electronic music scene won 5 Grammy Awards" "We forgot they are robots here, they don't move" "(impossible to hear what he is saying sorry) they didn't remove the mask for one sec during the day so obviously it creates an atmosphere a bit surrealist and weird" "because between two shoot I said, ok now you can remove the helmet and we can just talk but they didn't, and that's something" "I imagine it was not always easy for them to work together there are a lot of traps with a career like that and even for the ego, a lot of people can make faults" "them, they always had a deep belief into staying on the right path" "I even want to say a model of human behaviour and that is very rare" "I've been producing music professionally for 30 years" "I've seen people with 6,25% of their success that don't even tell me "Hello" when passing by them, they give the same level of attention to the guy holding the door, or the boss of the Major" "to keep these qualities intact while life is advancing one has to win victories over oneself" "Next the Guardian Of The Galaxy (isn't that the Robots already ?" 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