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Disco Now Disco Then

Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, April 2013

DAFT PUNK ARE sitting pretty at the top of the UK singles chart for the first time. The track in question, 'Get Lucky', taken from their forthcoming album, Random Access Memories, came as something of a surprise, for instead of hitching itself to the current EDM juggernaut that's sweeping America, the French duo have completely bucked the trend by drawing their influence from Disco, featuring its most celebrated guitarist, the great Nile Rodgers of the Chic Organisation (as well as R&B vocalist, Pharrell Williams).

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