"We decided to base what we do on the idea of what we call white rhythms. Through the ages most white musicians have been interested in African rhythm because it's still very primitive. But from the beginning, we didn't feel close enough to other cultures to pick up anything in their rhythms that we could feel. So we decide to do our own music, to go toward white rhythms. It wasn't easy, because the instincts of white music are gone. We're just trying to find out what they are....
"It's not a question of fashion for us: It's more a question of doing sound research... I was very suprised that people here in the States like what we do, because so much of what you hear in clubs has a lot of black rhythms. Maybe we are seen as kind of exotic.... Maybe what makes us different is that we're trying to get back to our cultural instincts, to our primitive white rhythms."
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