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'God-tier audio in a car’ — I heard the new Cadillac’s AKG Dolby Atmos sound system and I’m never going back

Long and dark, shiny and black: why AKG’s new Lyriq EV Dolby Atmos sound system made me want to drive straight to the Cadillac ranch

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‘Happy by Pharrell is exceedingly annoying – but I love it’: DJ Roger Sanchez’s honest playlist

The DJ does Journey at karaoke and gets the party started with Daft Punk. But which Stevie Wonder track would he like played at his funeral?

The Guardian - UK

“That spark of stumbling on a forgotten gem … gone. Daft Punk were the kings of that. They could turn half a second of groove into a global anthem”: Justice explain why they no longer sample other people’s records and create their own loops instead

“Sampling the traditional way gets frustrating fast: bad tuning, rigid tempos, weird textures that don’t bend,” says Xavier de Rosnay

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Tron: Ares producers say Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "love Disney", so it was a no brainer that they collaborate with the House of Mouse on the sci-fi sequel

Exclusive: Sean Bailey and Emma Ludbrook say NIN's Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's were the "perfect" duo to score "darker" follow-up Tron: Ares

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Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968

Bands such as Magma and Art Zoyd provided a soundtrack for the student protests that shook the country. Little remembered now, a new book reveals their decisive influence on later successes such as Air and Daft Punk

The Guardian - UK

Fortnite's newest collaboration invites players to the Daft Punk Experience featuring a 'fully interactive playground' this weekend

Epic Games has announced a special Fortnite collaboration event with the electronic music duo Daft Punk, set to take place this weekend.

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Parcels on working with Daft Punk and their euphoric electropop: ‘The ultimate goal is to cry on the dancefloor’

After forming at high school in Byron Bay, the Australian band’s nostalgic, disco-funk sound has been streamed more than 1bn times

The Guardian - AU

The DJ who united the warring tribes of French rap and dance – and died far too young

DJ Mehdi perished in a tragic accident aged 34. A new documentary, Made in France, restores his pivotal role in the electronic music revolution that grew out of 00s Paris

The Guardian - UK

“Each time I pressed Enter on the Akai S1000 I saw my life changing”: Air’s Nicolas Godin reveals the secrets of their Sexy Boy

Here’s how the band used a talkbox and a Leslie effect to create their '90s trip-hop masterpiece

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Scottish rappers, deaf composers and an AI song called Zygotic Washstands: the biggest hoaxes in pop

Ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür was conned into believing he was collaborating with a member of Daft Punk – but it’s far from the first time musicians and audiences have been fooled

The Guardian - UK

“We love you guys. Without Kraftwerk we would not find our own robot style, being on stage with the helmets, you know”: How a fake Daft Punk fooled Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür into a collaboration

They pretended to be Thomas Bangalter

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DJ Funk, trailblazing Chicago ghetto house producer, dies aged 54

Charles Chambers was a key innovator in dance music, speeding up beats and adding raunchy lyrics, and inspiring Daft Punk and Justice

The Guardian - UK

Members of Yello, Daft Punk and New Order guest on new Wolfgang Flür album Times

Former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür to release new album Times in March

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The Independent UK

Zoe Ball begins final Radio 2 breakfast show with Daft Punk’s One More Time

Ball shared a message from a man who said he was driving home for Christmas early so he could listen to her last show.

Inverse

21 Years Later, a Revolutionary Sci-fi Movie is Coming Back to Theaters — But There's a Catch

Compelling anime visuals? Check. Killer soundtrack? Yup. A smooth, uncontroversial update? Well...

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“That album makes me tear up. It makes me emotional, just because I think, wow, imagine being there in that crowd, listening to one of the greatest bands of all time”: Charli XCX on the Daft Punk album that hits different

She also says that, when she was growing up, “I really thought that I wanted to emulate Britney Spears”

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“I would play solo piano gigs and a producer for Daft Punk came into the bar one night. He asked me if I wanted to join an all-female electronic band”: LP Giobbi on transitioning from jazz to dance music - and remixing Taylor Swift

Producer, DJ and classically trained pianist LP Giobbi unpicks the creative strands that have made her and the workings behind new album, Dotr

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The Independent UK

Creepy, bald female AI robot praises Buffalo Bills and chicken wings at New York grad address

Named Sofia, the ‘humanoid robot’ did not read prepared remarks, but responded to questions from D’Youville student body president John Rizk at the event on Saturday

The Guardian - UK

Dance giants Justice return: ‘The only thing we argued over were the bongos’

The debonair duo have remixed U2 and Britney, and angered Kanye West. Still on each other’s wavelengths after almost a decade away, they’re resuming their quest to make ‘the most dramatic music possible’

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Listen to an incredible remake of Daft Punk's Face to Face made with modern samples from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead and Lady Gaga: "What a love letter to sampling"

"Face to Face samples 20 different songs from 1968-1982, but what if the song used samples coming from a much later time range of thirty years later?"

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“I’m told they’re working on it, it’s coming out of the locker”: Daft Punk drummer raises hopes that a new album could be on the way

Quinn reveals details of 2018 sessions and says that there’s a record that “sits in limbo”

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“He insisted I bring my plexiglass guitar”: Nile Rodgers on Thomas Bangalter’s specific request when Daft Punk invited him into the studio to record Get Lucky

“Life was one way before Random Access Memories, and completely different after,” says Rodgers

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Sample-hunting Daft Punk fans make huge Discovery as Todd Edwards reveals the source of samples used on Face to Face

The Daft Punk collaborator dug out the original floppy disk full of samples from the Discovery sessions in a video shared on Instagram

The Guardian - UK

‘Montmartre was dead’: how Paris district has been revived by music

The 18th arrondissement so beloved of tourists has been transformed by indie record labels and musicians

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