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With songs like “One More Time,” Daft Punk proved their unrivaled ear for a platinum hook a cut like “Robot Rock,” meanwhile, was pure alchemy, turning a forgotten hard-rock obscurity into an unforgettable anthem. A pattern emerged: Dance music purists were initially aghast, yet both records quickly rewired the collective consciousness, paving the way for crate-digging iconoclasts like Justice and Kanye-and minting a fair number of stone classics in the process. But Daft Punk didn’t linger on their creation their next two albums, 2001’s Discovery and 2005’s Human After All, largely abandoned house and disco in favor of audacious sample flips from obscure ’70s rock and funk. Such sound-sculpting helped give birth to the “French touch,” a wildly influential production style whose luxe detailing continues to resonate through dance music decades later. The duo’s innovation was to take the wriggly, rough-hewn style-a descendent of disco, rooted in Black and queer communities in America’s cities-and sand down its edges, giving looped funk basslines both sensuous heft and Gallic panache. Shortly after, in 1993, the two regrouped as Daft Punk, trading their guitars for synths and samplers, and paying homage to the silky, hypnotic thump of Chicago house.

Parisian natives Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, born in 19, respectively, met in school and played briefly in a rock band, Darlin’, with future Phoenix member Laurent Brancowitz. Few acts have done as much to translate electronic music’s sometimes arcane pleasures to pop’s broadly universal contours. Daft Punk may pretend to be robots-their gleaming cyborg helmets are among the most recognizable silhouettes in modern music-but it’s the French duo’s warm, clearly human hearts that make them so beloved.