Meet The Collaborators Behind Daft Punk's Random Access Memories: Episode 5 - Panda Bear

In a new series, with direction from Ed Lachman, we take a look at the collaborators behind Random Access Memories, the new album from Daft Punk.

In Episode 5 we speak with Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear and founding member of Animal Collective, a band who recently released their lastest record Centipede Hz (which The Creators Project helped document).

We were really excited to interview Lennox as part of The Collaborators series and find out about his experience working with Daft Punk and his own relationship to their music. He recalls the first time he heard their music late one night on MTV when he caught the Michel Gondry-directed music video for "Around The World," and was struck by the images and the electronic sounds emanating from the screen.

Since then Lennox's been hooked and even asked the duo to remix an Animal Collective song and a track off his solo album. It never happened, but instead a year and a half later he was invited to Paris to come and work on "something." That something turned out to be singing on a track from Random Access Memories, and he ended up cutting the record in just three days.

Like with many musicians Daft Punk left a lasting, almost unconscious, impression on Lennox and his band—perhaps inspiring Animal Collective's own alternate identities.

Watch Episode 1 - Giorgio Moroder

Watch Episode 2 - Todd Edwards

Watch Episode 3 - Nile Rodgers

Watch Episode 4 - Pharrell Williams

For more on Animal Collective check out:

ODDSAC, a visual album in collaboration with Danny Perez

Animal Collective live with Black Dice at Coachella 2011

Animal Collective Radio

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