Daft Punk to work with Chic legend Nile Rogers on next album

Nile Rogers, Chic frontman and one of Disco's true legends, today announced that he is free of cancer and has something special on the cards. Posted on his website earlier today, Mr. Rogers revealed that he is set to work on the highly anticipated fourth studio album from Thomas Bagalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, better known together as Daft Punk! The Electronic duo, who haven't released an album for nearly 7 years, are also said to be in the studio with songwriting legend Paul Williams. This is incredibly exciting news for any music fan - check out Nile Rogers' full statement after the jump.

Today I’m going to spend some time with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo better known as Daft Punk. We’ve briefly met before when they were doing some sort of listening party in NYC back in the 90′s. The scene was chaotic and we didn’t really have a chance to have an artistic connection, except they did tell me that they were sorry about my former partner Bernard Edward’s death. And they dug CHIC. The feeling is mutual.I dig Daft Punk. When I first heard “Da Funk” I thought it was one of the grooviest records I’d heard in a long time. The song “One More Time” came out when I was on a trip to Paris and I visited Virgin records.

I almost hooked up with the guys then but I don’t remember what went wrong. “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” I simply thought was one of the coolest records of the year when I heard it.

After all these years of almost hooking up, finally Daft Punk Is Hanging at My House.