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In the June 6 issue of _Rolling Stone_, [writer Jonah Weiner describes](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/daft-punk-all-hail-our-robot-overlords-20130521) his pilgrimage to the Paris studio of Daft Punk, the notoriously secretive two-man group whose new album, _[Random Access Memories](http://www.randomaccessmemories.com/)_, has been dominating the _Billboard_ charts. As Weiner reverently enters the space where Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter spend “untold hours hunched over synthesizers, chasing new sounds,” he stops to marvel at its centrepiece: a giant modular synthesizer, four feet tall and six feet wide, all blinking lights and silver switches and cables. This custom system was “handmade for us by a guy in Canada,” Bangalter explains, and then they move on.
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