In the Fall of 2008, two old friends from Toronto, Canada met in a town in the Northern Netherlands. Jake Fairley had spent the past 6 years based in Berlin, riding a wave of European techno hits released on labels such as Border Community and Kompakt. James Sayce had been in Toronto, pursuing graduate studies while handling his duties in such bands as Tangiers and earlier, the Deadly Snakes. Their long-standing friendship had not manifested itself into a musical project since their early teens...