Daft Punk’s Get Lucky has sold over a million copies in the UK (Picture: OfficialCharts)

World-renowned DJ Tiesto has criticised Daft Punk’s new album Random Access Memories and the hype surrounding it, claiming he is ‘destroying’ the French electro duo right now.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter’s return has created mass hysteria, with their comeback single Get Lucky remaining at the top of the charts for several weeks and spawning various remixes and covers.

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Tiesto is not convince the acclaim is genuine however, telling Huffington Post: ‘It got so much attention because it’s so different and it’s an attitude album. It’s cool to like Daft Punk. Even if you’re not into the song, as soon as you hear Get Lucky, you see all the cool people go, ‘Oh yeah, this is cool, that’s my song,’ and they don’t really even enjoy it.


DJ Tiesto says Daft Punk are simply trading off their coolness (Picture: Getty

‘I’m destroying them now. Sorry Daft Punk.’



The world’s richest DJ also went after the pair’s back catalogue, saying: ‘The Tron soundtrack wasn’t that great and this [Random Access Memories] is not great, either. But because it’s Daft Punk and they’re supposed to be cool and they had the amazing pyramid at Coachella a couple of years ago and the helmets – they’re f***ing cool. But the music doesn’t deliver on the hype so much.’

Some were expecting Nile Rodgers, who appears on Get Lucky, to perform the track with his band Chic at Glastonbury over the weekend, but the guitarist has revealed that he promised Daft Punk not to play the track without them.