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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

“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

“I almost had this adverse reaction, like an overdose”: Daft Punk man Thomas Bangalter releases his 6-hour opera soundtrack

“I almost had this adverse reaction, like an overdose”: Daft Punk man Thomas Bangalter releases his 6-hour opera soundtrack

Thomas Bangalter releases six hour opera soundtrack

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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”

The 20 greatest French touch tracks – ranked!

As Cassius’s scene-defining album 1999 turns 25, we revisit the sample-powered, disco-fabulous sound that carried Daft Punk and others to fame

The Guardian - UK

“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

It's a fact - Daft Punk's Discovery and Homework really were recorded in a bedroom (and mixed on a JVC boombox): "That little boombox is what we mixed and recorded both Homework and Discovery on. That was the magic one"

We made LEGO models in ours, they made two multi-platinum selling albums in theirs

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20 Years Ago, a Music Legend Made a Shockingly Great Sci-Fi Movie

20 Years Ago, a Music Legend Made a Shockingly Great Sci-Fi Movie

“The story was already in the record,” editor Olivier Gajan tells Inverse. “They had that in their mind at the beginning.”

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Air to Beef

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Air to Beef

All the cultural highlights for Easter weekend

The Independent UK

Yes, he performed as a robot, but ex-Daft Punk member says AI has him 'terrified'

Thomas Bangalter, formerly one-half of electronic music duo Daft Punk, said this week that his fear of artificial intelligence was a factor in why the group split in 2021.

Los Angeles Times

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter says that his concerns around the rise of AI “go beyond its use in music creation”

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter says that his concerns around the rise of AI “go beyond its use in music creation”

In a rare interview, the musician also reveals that “the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot”

‘Within a minute, everyone was dancing’ – Stardust on making Music Sounds Better With You

‘Within a minute, everyone was dancing’ – Stardust on making Music Sounds Better With You

‘When the money started to roll in, I went to this record shop I loved and asked to see every piece of expensive vinyl I’d ever lusted after. “I’ll take them all!” I said’

The Guardian - UK

Daft Punk and Todd Edwards take you back to the writing of Fragments of Time in previously unheard studio conversations

Daft Punk and Todd Edwards take you back to the writing of Fragments of Time in previously unheard studio conversations

The tape was running as they worked on the track, which appeared on the soon-to-be-reissued Random Access Memories

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