In 2001, Layo and Bushwacka! knocked out the single “Love Story” (simply called “Untitled” on the initial white-label pressing), which was built around a bass line they sampled from the intro of “Mongoloid” from Devo's 1978 debut album. “I brought some samples into the studio,” says Layo. “When I played Matt the beginning of ‘Mongoloid,’ he thought it was a good bass line, and it all went from there. We felt it needed some kind of vocal, so I went through some Nina Simone records I have. When we heard that vocal, it vibed and felt right.”

However, the vocal part was surrounded by instrumentation that clashed with the music that Layo and Bushwacka! had already recorded for the song. Fortunately, Bushwacka! is an accomplished engineer, so he surgically removed the offending instruments in the sample. “I used a combination of EQing and notch filtering,” says Bushwacka! “I just kept taking away and adding frequencies until it sounded the way I wanted it to. I also did some time-stretching and adjusted the tuning. I have a lot of experience doing mixing, so I know how to balance EQs so that everything fits together.”

“That track brings people together because it's a mix of a lot of different elements,” says Layo. “Some people like it because they know the Devo tune, but then there are others who like it just because it's a good bass line. The vocals and the instrumentation take it to an entirely different place.”