If you check back on Sleepy Jackson’s ‘Personality’ album of 2006 (and some songs on ‘Lovers’ from 2003), you’ll see that Luke Steele has been into this look (‘Luke Steele as god’) and this sound for quite some time. And Nick Littlemore is from Pnau, which has traded in disco-influenced electronic music since the late 1990s. I don’t think MGMT have much to do with the Empire of the Sun’s inception or sound, but may have something to do with why people are currently paying attention.