Nile Rodgers confirms collaboration with Chase & Status

Nile Rodgers has revealed that he has collaborated with Chase and Status.

The guitarist announced on Twitter that he had been in the studio with the drum and bass producers working on a new track and posted an image of them in the studio together.

He tweeted: "Composed a song w/ drum n bass gurus @chaseandstatus earlier this year which I'll finish tonight."

The 60-year-old from New York worked with Daft Punk on their number one single Get Lucky.

Chase & Status are set to release their new studio album Brand New Machine on 7 October.

The duo recently announced that the first single from the album, Count On Me featuring Moko, would be released on 29 September.

Brand New Machine is their third album and is the follow-up to 2011's No More Idols.

Their debut album More Than Alot was released in 2008.

All-clear

Last month Nile Rodgers announced that he had been given the all-clear from prostate cancer.

He was diagnosed with the disease in 2010 and recently claimed that the success of Get Lucky helped him overcome the illness.

"I was facing life and death issues and then to get something so rewarding as a number one record is pretty amazing," he said.

"I think this particular experience rates very high, because two years ago I was stricken with cancer just right out of the clear blue sky.

"And from that moment I decided I was going to work as much as I could, play as many concerts, do as many records, because that's what I live for."

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