Daft Punk featuring Romanthony, "One More Time"

Having mastered side-chain compression -- a studio trick that gives the impression of a giant bellows sucking all the air out of the room between every whooshing chord -- on Homework, Daft Punk needed a new gimmick for the follow-up. They found it in Auto-Tune, which made Romanthony's voice wriggle like the invading insects in that old Atari game, "Caterpillar." Suddenly, the vocoder -- a different kind of voice synthesis, one Daft Punk had already used on "Around the World" -- sounded old hat. This was the real future, heralded by a digital whippoorwill.

Kanye West performs with Daft Punk at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008.

Daft Punk pose backstage after making their first ever television appearance at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008.