"At first, Wolf wasn't sure what he was listening to. These weren't warm neo-soul Jay Dee beats...This kind of "time stretching" wasn't possible on an MPC. He'd done all these beats right on his laptop, via his Pro Tools software, which enabled James to see the waveforms--dice and recombine them, squeeze and stretch them--in ways he never before attempted. Created in a burst of energy after James's discharge from Cedars-Sinai in early 2005, Donuts emerged as a complete thought."