Relaxin’ with Daft Punk
Relax Vol. 49, March 2001 Issue
ファーストアルバムか全世界で200万枚. シングル [ONE MORE TIME] は本国フランスで初登場1位(初登場1位は実に3年ぶり)と, さりげなく偉業を成し遂げてる彼ら. 今月のゲストはDAFT PUNKのお2人です! … うっ. さすかにひるみますね, このお姿. どこかで見たような… 彼らが口にした “Coincident” という言葉のとおりに, 偶然に一致したようなその感覚は, フランスと日本も案外近いのね, と, 僕らにもすんなりと入ってきます. 無意識の中にプログラムされている子供時代のイメージが, 彼らと近かったんでしょうか. 思わず [よっ! 機械男爵最近調子どう?] と声をかけたくなりました.
(Their first album sold 2,000,000 copies worldwide. Their single ‘One More Time’ was a number-one hit in the US and in France (the last time they had one was three years ago) - truly, they’ve achieved some amazing feats. This month’s guests are the two from Daft Punk! … Ooh. Just writing about them makes us nervous. There’s something familiar about this… that feeling, that things have fitted together by chance (much like what they referred to as ‘coincident’) makes us think that France and Japan are not so far apart after all. It’s an easily-coherent feeling to us, too. Perhaps we’ve had an image similar to them programmed in our subconscious all along, way back from when we were little? So much that we had the automatic urge to ask them - “Hey there, Machine Baron! How’s it going?”)
('Machine Baron’ is a reference to a character from an old-timey anime, Steam Detectives. Images originally posted by accio-sh, though I can no longer find their original blog for credit. Please inform me of any errors or suggestions for better wording!)
