What started with a glorious technicolour explosion of electric sound was soon downloaded and reduced to a zip-file abstraction of soulless auto-tune heartbreaks, entirely oversaturated and completely unoriginal. Like all masterpieces, there was an inevitable glut of copycats who always seemed to cling to the worst elements of the Promethean feat that inspired them. In many ways, Daft Punk’s 2001 album Discovery elucidated the Baroque expression that Robots could be capable of. The 2000s burst into life brilliantly, at least in a musical sense. Daft Punk could make an 808-break sound like John Bonham, turn a synth soundscape into a holographic reincarnation of Hendrix and most importantly, adrenalise your brain cells with a jolt of euphoric high-frequency humanised electricity.
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