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===Musical style===

Daft Punk's musical style has mainly been described as [[House music|house]],<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|title=Electro Music Ambassador's French Touch|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/27iht-pedrowinter27.html?pagewanted=all|newspaper=The New York Times|first1=Scott|last1=Sayare|date=26 January 2012|access-date=22 February 2021|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128064024/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/27iht-pedrowinter27.html?pagewanted=all|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AllMusic genres">{{cite news|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daft-punk-mn0000667669/biography|title=Daft Punk AllMusic Bio|first=Sean|last=Cooper|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=23 February 2021|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201114622/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daft-punk-mn0000667669/biography|url-status=live}}</ref> [[French house]],<ref name="AllMusic genres"/> [[Electronic music|electronic]],<ref name="PitchforkInterview"/> [[dance music|dance]],<ref name="AllMusic genres"/><ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Kerri |last1=Mason |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/1561328/daft-punk-how-the-pioneering-dance-duo-conjured-random-access-memories |title=Daft Punk: How the Pioneering Dance Duo Conjured 'Random Access Memories' |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=10 May 2013 |access-date=20 April 2020 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030328/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/1561328/daft-punk-how-the-pioneering-dance-duo-conjured-random-access-memories |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[disco]].<ref name="AllMusic genres"/><ref name="PitchforkInterview"/> Sean Cooper of [[AllMusic]] describes their musical style as a blend of [[acid house]], [[techno]], [[Pop music|pop]], [[indie rock]], [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[progressive house]], [[funk]], and [[Electro (music)|electro]].<ref name="AllMusic genres"/>

The ''Guardian'' critic [[Alexis Petridis]] described their approach as magpie-like, with extensive [[Sampling (music)|sampling]].<ref name=":0" /> Homem-Christo described it as [[bricolage]], the art of using [[Found object|found sounds]] to create new work.<ref name="Reesman2">{{cite web |last=Reesman |first=Bryan |date=1 October 2001 |title=Daft Punk |url=http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_daft_punk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521164603/http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_daft_punk |archive-date=21 May 2006 |access-date=9 March 2018 |work=[[Mix (magazine)|Mix]]}}</ref> Bangalter said in 2008: "I think that sampling is always something that we've completely legitimately done. It's not something we've hidden, it's almost a partisan or ideological way of making music, sampling things and being sampled ... It's always been a way to reinterpret things—sometimes it's using [an] element from the past, or sometimes recreating them and fooling the eyes or the ears, which is just a fun thing to do."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nadeau |first1=Cheyne |last2=Nies |first2=Jennifer |date=July–August 2013 |title=The Work of Art Is Controlling You |url=http://anthemmagazine.com/the-work-of-art-is-controlling-you |url-status=live |journal=Anthem |issue=29 |pages=36–37 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106235124/http://anthemmagazine.com/the-work-of-art-is-controlling-you |archive-date=6 January 2014}}</ref> Daft Punk used vintage equipment to recreate sounds by older artists, such as the use of a [[Wurlitzer electric piano|Wurlitzer piano]] to evoke [[Supertramp]] on "[[Digital Love (Daft Punk song)|Digital Love]]".<ref name="mixonlineinterview">Bryan Reesman, [http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_daft_punk/ Daft Punk interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110224721/http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_daft_punk/|date=10 November 2014}} ''Mix (magazine)''. Retrieved 6 March 2007.</ref> They saw their style as [[Retrofuturism|retrofuturist]], incorporating genres from earlier decades into what the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' described as "an increasingly grand vision of joyful populism".<ref name=":5" />