Random Access Memories

After a decade of sampling, Daft Punk did the unthinkable for an electronic act: they flew to Los Angeles, booked the old studios, and recorded with the session musicians who had played on the disco records they loved. Nile Rodgers of Chic plays guitar. Giorgio Moroder narrates his own life over an eight-minute track. Get Lucky, with Pharrell Williams singing, became a global hit. The album is a love letter to a time when records were made by people in a room, made by two men who built their career doing the opposite.