“I think we are closer to our fans when we are being robots than we would be if we were just far-away stars,” Thomas Bangalter says. It’s 2006, and he and his Daft Punk bandmate Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are walking around the Coachella grounds the day after their packed-out gig under the Sahara Tent. It was the French electronic duo’s long-awaited first performance together since releasing their third studio album Human After All. Onstage in their pyramid, synthesizers aplenty, they’re superstars. In the daylight, walking among the crowds, nobody tries to approach them. They’re just like anyone else.