"Blue" was recently featured in Iron Man 3. It's a way of saying with my filter I have a blue house, a blue window etc. They all reflect that color, it's incredible that everyone has that. So the things they buy, the houses they buy, the people they want to see, the places they live, the cars they have. I think that everyone has their own color you know? They filter their entire lives with that colour. It speaks of something I believe in a lot. The last two digits of the phone number were six and five so the graphic artist thought we put that in our name afterwards so it was a really curious way to get to that. Then what happened was we had the label copy on our producer’s desk and he was writing a phone number that went over the paper he was using and ended up on the label copy. We made a database on Excel that we were fetching from time to time and when "Blue" came out we fetched Eiffel from the list and that was it. We were producing a lot back in those days and we noticed that we were wasting a lot of time trying to find names for the new projects so what we did was we took a week or so to create as many new possible names as we could. How did you come up with the name Eiffel 65? They have definitely put an important page in the book for electronic music. Daft Punk, I think they’re really really great. That would have been really nice because that’s a great honor for us. I read a few posts about it on my Twitter or Facebook, but I never saw the actual interview. Rarely do artists nail a specific feeling with such mathematical exactitude perhaps Daft Punk are robots after all.Did you see the interview with Daft Punk talking about how they loved “Blue”? What’s remarkable is that it’s just as powerful on the umpteenth listen. They introduced Italo icon Giorgio Moroder to a new generation that hadn’t even been born by his ’70s heyday, helping kick off the decade’s disco revival with Pharrell Williams and Chic’s Nile Rodgers, they came up with the joyful, effervescent “Get Lucky,” a song so effortlessly delectable that hearing it for the first time was like being reacquainted with a childhood friend. Yet once again, even as the culture was trending in one direction, they feinted left: Their 2013 album, Random Access Memories, released at the height of the EDM boom, all but abandoned obvious digital trappings in favor of slinky organic disco played by real human musicians.
Not only did Daft Punk help popularize electronic music, but their legendary 2006 Coachella performance from inside a neon pyramid helped set the stage for EDM’s turn toward hi-def spectacle in the 2010s. With songs like “One More Time,” Daft Punk proved their unrivaled ear for a platinum hook a cut like “Robot Rock,” meanwhile, was pure alchemy, turning a forgotten hard-rock obscurity into an unforgettable anthem. A pattern emerged: Dance music purists were initially aghast, yet both records quickly rewired the collective consciousness, paving the way for crate-digging iconoclasts like Justice and Kanye-and minting a fair number of stone classics in the process. But Daft Punk didn’t linger on their creation their next two albums, 2001’s Discovery and 2005’s Human After All, largely abandoned house and disco in favor of audacious sample flips from obscure ’70s rock and funk. Such sound-sculpting helped give birth to the “French touch,” a wildly influential production style whose luxe detailing continues to resonate through dance music decades later. The duo’s innovation was to take the wriggly, rough-hewn style-a descendent of disco, rooted in Black and queer communities in America’s cities-and sand down its edges, giving looped funk basslines both sensuous heft and Gallic panache. Shortly after, in 1993, the two regrouped as Daft Punk, trading their guitars for synths and samplers, and paying homage to the silky, hypnotic thump of Chicago house. Parisian natives Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, born in 19, respectively, met in school and played briefly in a rock band, Darlin’, with future Phoenix member Laurent Brancowitz. Few acts have done as much to translate electronic music’s sometimes arcane pleasures to pop’s broadly universal contours. Daft Punk may pretend to be robots-their gleaming cyborg helmets are among the most recognizable silhouettes in modern music-but it’s the French duo’s warm, clearly human hearts that make them so beloved.
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