Daft Punk session drummer confirms lost album
Quinn, a session drummer who collaborated with Daft Punk on their fourth and final album, Random Access Memories, has confirmed the existence of a follow-up album they created together.
The one-word-named drummer provided percussion for the majority of Random Access Memories, though he was one of the last musicians to come onto the project.
Speaking about the experience with alt.news 26:46 (via Consequence Of Sound), he began, “On RAM, I was pretty much the last person to come in on the record. The next record [Daft Punk] were working on, I was the very first person.”
Quinn worked with the French electronic duo as they experimented with keyboards, computer programmes and drum sets in the studio. “We were literally just trying to get vibes across,” he explained, “… Whatever he would give me, I would answer and try to come up with something.”
According to the drummer, the unnamed record they record together “will be a lot of spontaneous things.” On one occasion, Quinn put a kick pedal on the strings of his piano board, remembering the Daft Punk duo “really loving that,” but admitting, “I don’t know if it’ll make the record. It was the craziest, weird-sounding things.”
As for the potential release of the lost record, Quinn stated that he “keeps checking in” on the status of it. “I’m told they’re working on it,” he declared, “It’s coming out of the locker. I asked Daft Punk permission to talk about it for another article, ’cause they’re very secretive as you know. And the greatest guys.”
In 2021, eight years on from the release of their final record, Daft Punk announced their disbandment on YouTube. The pair turned down the opportunity to reunite at the 2024 Paris Olympics, while Bangalter shared his relief with how they split.
Since the split, the band have released a 25th-anniversary version of their debut, Homework, while Bangalter has provided original compositions to ballet Mythologies and the French film Daaaaaalí!
Revisit Random Access Memories below.
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