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The trio continued to work on demos with Tedd for a possible EP while playing shows on the side with different bass players experimenting with the idea of eventually becoming a four-piece.Īfter months of considering different options for their new venture, the group decided to do things on their own and officially changed their name to 'Mutemath'. Paul took the early demos to friend and producer Tedd T, who fell in love at first listen. 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.

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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 Björk, 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. Mutemath started in 2002 as a long-distance collaboration between Paul Meany in New Orleans, Louisiana and Darren King in Springfield, Missouri.