“[When Daft Punk played Coachella] Everybody in the music business, including all the Rock people who had for years and years and years been like ‘What’s the big deal? I don’t get it. Why isn’t that guy on stage doing anything? Where are the guitars?’ … THEY GET IT FOR THE FIRST TIME.”— Michaelangelo Matos

Daft Punk – Burnin’ / Too Long (Alive 2007)

I choose to look at this not as “the birth of EDM”—which was a cultural tragedy—and more as a technical culmination of about 30 years of electronic dance music. Forget about the lights and props for a minute, just the way that Daft Punk took live remixing/performing to another level is a thing of beauty.