Formed in 2006 by James Ketchum, Leon Hu and Gareth Ewing. The trio had played for years together in various high school projects, when upon living together in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, formed a new project oriented around tape loops, thrift store keyboards and cheap consumer recording electronics. Their palette of acoustic and electronic instruments juxtaposes gloriously chintzy multi-tracked melodic spirals from an arsenal of decades-old Casio keyboards with organic beats performed on hand percussion, as peals of guitar and saxophone bubble out of the cauldron in particularly climactic passages.