"The next time I set foot in Japan, my collaboration with Daft Punk would have started to hit people's eardrums," he wrote on Walking on Planet C, a blog detailing Rodgers' successful bout against cancer.

Not long after that blog post, reports began circulating that Daft Punk had signed a new record deal with Columbia. In February, the deal was confirmed when the French dance duo released a single image depicting the iconic robot helmets of members Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo fused into one.