Den kortlivede franske elektroduo The Droids (Fabrice Cuitad og Yves Hayat) besøger i 1977 italiensk TV og optræder der – flankeret af space-danserinde Chantal Dardenne – med deres single ‘The Force’. Året efter er nummeret med på bandets eneste album Star Peace – titlen afledt af Star Wars – og så er det forbi, et hurtigt elektrisk stød. ‘The Force’ giver i sin samtid fuld honnør til både Kraftwerk og Giorgio Moroder ovre i Vesttyskland. Godt tyve år senere høres det, at Daft Punk må have lyttet med i Paris…

Her apropos den engelske 1976-punker og musikjournalist Jon Savage’s ord om den tids discomusik, der oftest blev hængt ud som det laveste af det lave:

Forget all the Disco Sucks bollocks, this was where the creativity was. Many of the qualities of Disco that were so derided were mirror images of those qualities that were celebrated in Punk: an annihilating insistence on sex as opposed to puritan disgust; a delight in a technology as opposed to a Luddite reliance on the standard Rock group format; acceptance of mass production as opposed to individuality. It was the difference between 1984and Brave New World: between a totalitarian nightmare or a dystopia accomplished through seduction. […] Disco’s stateless, relentlessly technological focus lent itself to space/alien fantasies which are a very good way for minorities to express and deflect alienation: if you’re weird, it’s because you’re from another world. And this world cannot touch you.