Words by Will Brewster
A rare glimpse into the workflow of the robots.
Before they donned the helmets, acquired an ungodly amount of studio gear and blurred the boundaries between man and machine, Daft Punk were no more than a funky duo of Frenchmen armed with a light arsenal of Roland gear.
Discovered via Reddit, a clipping from a feature on the duo in a Japanese music magazine from 1999 offers an insight into the workflow of Guy-Manuel de Homme-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.
While some pieces of gear listed are pretty predictable – obviously there’s a bunch of TB-303s and TR-909s across the record – it’s certainly interesting to read about the process of the pair before they became the dons of electronic music.
Check it out below.
Sequencers:
- Alesis MMT-8
- Apple Macintosh + EMAGIC MicroLogic
Samplers:
- Akai S01
- E-MUE III
- E-MU SP-1200
- Ensoniq ASR-10
- Roland S-760
Synthesisers:
- Roland Juno-106
- Roland MC-202
- Roland MKS-80
- Roland TB-303
- Sequential Prophet-VS
Drum Machines:
- LinnDrum
- Roland TR-707
- Roland TR-808
- Roland TR-909
Effects:
- Alesis Microverb III
- Alesis 3630 Compressor
- Behringer Compressor
- Behringer Parametric EQ
- Ensoniq DP/4+
- Lexicon Vortex
- Lexicon JamMan
- LA Audio Gate/Compressor
- Waldorf MiniWorks 4-pole
- Yamaha Digital Delay
- Mixers/Recorders
- Mackie. MS-1202
- Mackie. CR-1604
- Panasonic SV-3700
Other:
- Iomega Zip Drive
This article was originally published August 6, 2018.
