Daft Punk worked with The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas on the track "Instant Crush" for their album "Random Access Memories" last year. Casablancas has implied that there is a second collaboration with Daft Punk in the works. He says he worked with the French DJs on another song he hopes to finish soon. "There is another ... Daft Punk song that we worked on that was cool," Casablancas says in an interview with Chile's Radio Cooperativa (see video below). "Maybe I'll get those guys ... [and] we can do that one day soon, finish it."
Although "Instant Crush" reached only as far as No 198 on the UK chart, it was the second most successful single off of Random Access Memories. "Instant Crush" also helped build anticipation for Casablancas' coming solo album, which he hopes to release in September.
"I do not like hearing the same genre for three songs in a row," Casablancas said of his upcoming solo, titled "Julian Casablancas + the Voidz." He also comments that the album is influenced by jazz, world music, "modern classical" as well as Black Flag and Sebastian Tellier.
The 35-year-old singer also hopes to reunite with his band, the Strokes to make a follow-up album to last year's "Comedown Machine." "We are friends, you know what I mean?" he said. "[But] just to make it work - from just sitting down and having coffee and hanging out to being on-stage and performing as a unit. Just have it all be positive friend vibes."
Casablancas is in Argentina and Brazil this week as part of the Lollapalooza Festival's South American tour.