Robert Krulwich

Also, one of them gets really deep into trance music.

Not techno-trance, but... A lot of music from Africa.

And these are musical traditions that have a totally different approach to rhythm, which we can talk about in a second.

But they're listening to all this stuff, and it begins to somehow seep in.

They begin to gradually put a little bit of it into their sets, and to make a long story short, over the course of two years... It was a very incremental and slow process.

They pieced together this style of music that is 180 degrees from what they were just doing, and...

unlike anything I've ever heard.

And the only way I can describe it is it's sort of like ancient folk music filtered through highly obsessive computers that actually aren't computers but people.

What does that mean?

Here, I'm going to play you some, okay?

Okay.

No, not that.

Let's put this on.

Let's just wait.

Let's just mute this.

All right.

Here it comes.

Now keep an open mind.

Okay.

So this is how it starts with just a bass line.