Much of the album happened over email, with producers sending tracks for her to write lyrics to.
The faraway friends (Robinson in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Madeon in Nantes, France), hit it off, albeit digitally, and began sending tracks back and forth.
Rather than spending ages in the studio, Robyn recorded Body Talk in short bursts, sending tracks to her label as and when they were finished.
And I just thought, 'Oh, be prepared for rejection.' " Yet nearly everyone she invited would appear on the song, recording in studios around the world and sending tracks for Ms. Lennox and her producers to mix.
So we put a call out, it would have been sometime in autumn I think last year, just to say, "We're doing volume 10, start sending tracks in".
The Belgian Olympic Committee has sent track cyclist Gijs Van Hoecke home from the 2012 London Games after pictures appeared in British newspapers of him looking drunk and being carried into a taxi after a night out in the city.
Unlike producers such as Basshunter, Guetta doesn't merely send tracks to topline writers and then pick the melody and lyrics he likes the most.
A band are named after a goldfish, she explains ("I love that!"); a Scottish record label sends tracks out on cassettes ("a blue cassette tape, which was lovely") and she relishes a musician specialising in "viola pop" about dinosaurs.
Through a dedicated social network for music discovery, users can Splash, or send, tracks at one another, and download the songs they love the most.
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