Akash

WNYC.

Yeah, it was funny, actually, because we would play, like, late at night.

That's Sakash, the bass player?

Kasim had, like, stolen the key and kept it or something, and one night we were there at, like, 3 a.m., and I think we were really drunk, and security showed up, and he saw us.

They were pounding the ball back and forth, yelling.

And when he saw the intensity with which we were involved in this match, he was like, you know, you guys should continue, like, carry on.

And he left.

They'd get together.

We'd go into these classrooms that had no windows and turn out all the lights.

And they would play these long, crazy sets.

West African music as well as music from Morocco.

I think that something is going on in the world right now.

It's Akash again.

The last 10 to 15 years, you see in a lot of fields right now, people doing things, quote unquote, in an analog way that 10 years ago would have been assumed were absolutely impossible without the aid of technology.

You see it from big wave surfers who found out they could ride huge waves if they have jet skis to pull them into these waves, to now saying, hey, wait a minute, we can catch these with our arms again.

But the jet ski needed to be there to show them that this was even possible.

And you see it with this French beatboxer video online.

He's doing something that just sounds impossible.

It's unbelievable.

And it's like something that, the kind of stuff that Aphex was programming for his music, but this guy's doing it with his mouth.