Cole Cuchna

What you did with Donna Summer was to introduce America to disco.

It's the same thing that happened for us when homework channeled Chicago House and Techno and introduced it to people that didn't know about it.

In the song we just did together, you talk about how much the odds were against you, an Italian kid coming from a small town in the German mountains to go on and have your career.

And we really felt the same in some sense.

What are the odds for us coming from Paris and being able to somehow influence wider pop culture, to culturally connect the dots from the outside, unquote.

Understanding this, we can see how Daft Punk edited Marauder's story to reflect their own.

Like Marauder, they came from outside the traditional regions of the music they would influence.

Like Marauder, their trajectory shifted after encountering a new sound.

In Daft Punk's case, it was house and techno at a rave in Paris.

Like Marauder, they sought to merge past and future with the new tools of their era, samplers and drum machines.

And like Maroder, they began without a clear roadmap, guided only by their deep, genuine love for music.

And it's this shared arc that makes What Happens Next so powerful.

As Maroder ends his story with a verbal signature, Daft Punk respond with a sequenced synth line made on a modular synthesizer much like the one Maroder immortalized on I Feel Love.

This synth part is both a tribute and a continuation, a reverent bow to a pioneer and a baton pass across time.

When speaking to NPR, Toma elaborated on why they wanted to tell Giorgio Moroder's story on random access memories.

Quote, It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into so many different genres and so many different styles and many different places, but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself along the way.

but also inventing things at the same time.

We live today at a moment where there's a focus on electronic music and a focus on how electronic music might be this new trend or new music.

And it was fun for us to do a track around the life of Giorgio, this man that's in his 70s and speaks about his connection with techno and electronic music that happened 40 years ago."

In other words, there's a history behind this genre that some newcomers might think is brand new.