With the addition of more of their collective band influences like The Police and U2 the music began to find a sound of its own. All now living in Southern Louisiana, the three worked on expanding their collection of songs while broadening the sound to a more rock infused hybrid.
After Meany's band officially broke up by that summer, Darren and Paul moved in together into a house they found in Mandeville, Louisiana where they spent all their time writing new songs and considering how to turn their side-project into a full band.īy 2003, they had recruited guitarist Greg Hill, another Springfield, MO native and longtime friend of Darren's. Calling it "Math", the two explored many of their shared influences ranging from DJ Shadow to Bjork, yielding a lot of their earlier works to be more sample based electronica.
In February 2002, Darren moved to New Orleans to work closer with Paul in hopes to at least turn their efforts into some kind of side-project. Darren obliged and the two would set in motion a sort of songwriting ping-pong match that would carry on for several months. Fairly impressed with his efforts, Paul contacted Darren and asked if he could mess with the demos a bit, adding some ideas of his own. Occasionally Paul would receive instrumental demo CDs from Darren. The two had known each other from their work together in Meany's previous band Earthsuit. We think you'll enjoy these related videos below and for more great content featuring your favorite artists, sign up for Fuse+ to access all our videos.Mutemath started in 2002 as a long-distance collaboration between Paul Meany in New Orleans, Louisiana and Darren King in Springfield, Missouri. Bieber says the only people he trusts are his mom and dad, and Braun with his career. Biebs learned the hard way that hangers-on take advantage of him:Ī video of him peeing into a mop bucket netted a "so-called friend" $40,000 10 months after it was recorded. Kelly collab "PYD" was an attempt at a "modern Boyz II Men sound":ĭid he succeed? Listen for yourself right here.ġ0.
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