“Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great,” says Bangalter, talking about the proliferation of home recording and the laptop studio. “But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it’s like there’s no more magic—if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?”
Pitchfork’s Daft Punk cover story is up. [via Pitchfork]
From the way this week has started, it appears that I’ve fully jumped on the hype train and may as well make this a Daft Punk week. But we’ll see.
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