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Daft Punk built an album from old samples

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The French electronic duo didn't write traditional melodies for their breakout album 'Discovery'; they just aggressively recycled the past. The entire record is brilliantly constructed out of incredibly obscure disco and funk samples chopped up and looped indefinitely. They basically turned musical plagiarism into a globally celebrated art form.

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