Daft Punk for L'Uomo Vogue

 On the launch day in Paris last May of their hotly anticipated fourth studio album Random Access Memories, Daft Punk’s robots, a.k.a. French musicians Thomas Bangalter and Manuel de Homem-Christo, have spent most of their time in back-to-back photo shoots and interviews at Studio Daylight; a rare personal appearance marathon for the most mysterious duo in modern music.

All the collaborations on this record were the fruit of seemingly random meetings, which in fact sprang from deep mutual admiration. There was no initial plan, but funnily enough we wanted to work with all these people”, says Homem-Christo. “We bumped into Pharrell one day and Giorgio (Moroder) wanted to have coffee with us in Los Angeles because he’s a fan and so are we. As for Nile (Rodgers), we’ve been fans of Chic since we first met when we were 12 years old. Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) approached our management two years ago to get a release when he was doing a record, but we haven’t done that in years so we asked him to sing on ours and he said yes. And Julian Casablancas of the Strokes is our favorite rock composer. So when he contacted us to meet through a mutual friend it felt like fate”.All the composing and the recording began with discussions which occasionally lasted a few days. “We worked with Pharrell on the lyrics for Get Lucky.