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When the duo first got into the music industry, they originally wanted to make indie music as they were heavily inspired by Beach Boys, even going so far as to calling their band "Darlin'", which is a direct homage to one of Beach Boys' songs with the same title. This was short lived however after a negative critic at the 'Melody Maker' magazine described their show as "a daft punky trash", which prompted them to change their style completely and their name to what is now known as Daft Punk (Robinson, 2021)

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Daft Punk stated in the npr interview that their music has been pretty influenced by the 70s New York Punk scene. In their early teen years, the two met through their shared love for Velvet Underground, and later were captivated by The Strokes, specifically their track "Hard To Explain", which de Homen-Christo described as "full of magic". In conclusion they consider The Strokes and Velvet Underground "in the legacy of great bands" (Welby, 2019)

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In an interview on NPR music, the two state that Nile Rodgers is an iconic producer within the 70s and early 80s and believed he was the foundation for modern pop and dance music. They even said his song "Good Times" was their favorite track from that era when they were 10-11, claiming "It's really what its about and what dance music and disco music is about", and believed it was the kind of track that would fill up the dancefloor instantly upon being played, so they attempted to incorporate that idea in their tracks (Yenigun, 2013)

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Rowlands told Double J in an interview that he had attended a Mercury Rev show featuring Spiritualized, where at the end of their set, they all lined up and the saxophone and flute players made "this swirling, psychedelic sound", which he then said to himself "Wow, I want to have this feeling but on the dancefloor". He wanted to have an intensity and feeling of propulsion. This ended in the creation of Chemical Brothers' 'Private Psychedelic Reel', which Rowans describes as a track highlight in the career of Chemical Brothers (Condon & Pike, 2019)

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In the Double J interview, Rowland explains an event that happened in 96-97 where him and Ed found an old record shop in Kansas City selling psychedelic records. The two ended up buying a couple of psychedelic records from the 60s. Since this was the era the first Moog system synthesizer was invented, the two were inspired by the way the producers were figuring out all these different different techniques for creating sounds. The two later found themselves enjoying 80s Psychedelic bands/producers like Jesus & The Mary Chains and Harry Nilsson (Condon & Pike, 2019)

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Rowland and Simmons outside of studying at University of Manchester, were lured in by there shared love for 'New Order',  which combines rock and electronic music. They mainly took inspiration from 'Blue Monday' which mainly features analog sounds created by the Moog system to create a psychedelic sound, which has become quite prominent within their tracks (Welby, 2019)

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Gesaffelstein is one of Rezz's favorite producers, and although in the mixmag she denied drawing inspiration from him (Lee, 2016), listening to the two, its easy to see where she drew some inspiration from. Some of Rezz's songs that feature more of a dark synth melody like 'Flying octopus' 'Spider on the moon' and 'Relax' sound a lot like Gesaffelstein's 'Aleph' album. Magnetic magazine even described her as "the female answer to Gesaffelstein" (Calvano, 2015)

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Deadmau5 is easily Rezz's biggest and earliest influence. In a youtube interview with 'Billboard', she explained that at her first festival she saw Deadmau5 perform and she was inspired by "the beats and how simple they sounded but very hypnotic almost". It was this that prompted her to pursue making her own music by making sound as hypnotic as she can, along with creating her glasses which has an led swirl patter, further adding to the hypnotic vibe (Billboard, 2019)

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Rezz describes in the mixmag article that she heard Porter Robinson's 'Worlds' live show and was amazed at his ability to create a dark and captivating sound that's also quite simplistic, featuring only a kick, snare and "crazy bass sounds", and would win the audience over with this simplicity. She believes this idea of a simple yet captivating sound is the reason why her most popular song 'Edge' which has a drop that just has a simple four on the floor pattern kick & snare along with a monotone bass, is so popular (Lee, 2016) .

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Easily my favorite dj/producer by a long mile. I first head of her through social media and apple music recommendations. She produces under a fairly new sub-genre of 90s 'New Beat' known as 'Mid-Tempo bass', which was introduced to me through Rezz, but even then her sound is just so unique thanks to her dark and sinister and almost hypnotic sounding melodies along with her harshly distorted basslines. After seeing her at a festival earlier this year, this just made me like her even more

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Another one of my earliest influencers. I first heard of Daft Punk after my dad played it a couple times and immediately became drawn to it. While a pretty unpopular opinion, I found myself enjoying the 'Human After All' album. I have always been a fan of robots growing up, that being said, the album uses heavily distorted synthesizers to give it a 'robotic' sound and auto-tuned vocals to make it sound like a robot is singing. So naturally I found this pleasant to listen to

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One of my earliest influences, I first head of the band as it was one of my dad's favorite bands. At first I was personally drawn to them because of the chaotic and strange music videos they would employ along with their tracks. But later on that enthusiasm would be drawn to the sound itself rather than the videos. I really enjoy the acidic 303 sounds they implement in their track and I personally believe that since I was exposed to it so early on in life that it has shaped the kind of music that I like to listen to