Sam describes their first conversation:

"I got a call on my NY voice mail from Roland at Mute telling me that Alan wanted to meet me. I was totally stoked. When Alan called I was so excited that I didn't even tell him he was interrupting my bath, so we had a half hour conversation with me in the tub. I guess the most interesting thing was that I didn't know what to expect. The 14 year old in me was really excited to meet someone who had a place in my social development because the 80's had me following the UK imports like Duran Duran, Culture Club & Depeche Mode. We spent a couple of months trading music and text to get a feel for what we were each bringing to the project. I arrived in the UK directly after a week of performing on the road and I was mentally nuked and jet lagged. After breakfast and a nap, we went into the studio and listened to the music at which point PK pushed me into the sound booth and the work began......"