By Joshua Glazer

Thomas Bangalter is taller than you’d expect. That’s the first impression one has when the bearded (no helmet) member of Daft Punk unassumingly dips into the basement dressing room of Hollywood megaclub Avalon, where the even taller Pedro Winter is moving comfortably around the scrum of well-wishers, freeloaders, scenesters and photographers. Only local LA jock Them Jeans is taller still…he’s six-footeight. As by design, few recognize the unmasked silver robot. But everyone knows who Pedro is, and he’s quick to offer an introduction and a drink. A pro mingler from years of backstage activity-first as a promoter, then as manager of Daft Punk and, most recently, head of the impossibly hip Ed Banger Records-Pedro knows his way around a room.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been three years since …