French electro-duo Daft Punk have revealed that while a lot of people may expect them to have used laptops for their new album, 'Random Access Memories', they decided against them because they couldn't express what they wanted to using computers.

During an interview with Billboard, the 'Get Lucky' stars explained that it's becoming more common for EDM producers to rely on technology to produce sounds, but after trying to get a desirable result from machines for their own new offering it soon became clear they weren't going to achieve what they were aiming for:

"We really felt that the computers are not really music instruments, and we were not able to express ourselves using a laptop. We tried, but were not successful. It’s not really a judgment or criticism of any of the music today; rather trying to bring a different point of view and different alternative."

Referring to how music is made today, Daft Punk added: "The problem with the way to make music today, these are turnkey systems; they come with preset banks and sounds. They’re not inviting you to challenge the systems themselves, or giving you the ability to showcase your personality, individuality. They’re making it as if it’s somehow easier to make the same music you hear on the radio. Then it creates a very vicious cycle: How can you challenge that when the system and the media are not challenging it in the first place?"