No one knows for sure where they came from. One thing was certain, though: they were on an accellerated course toward self-destruction.

And it was only after tribal wars had devastated the ecology of the island, dooming the remaining few to starvation, that they realized they were totally alone. They prayed for a way to escape, but their prayers went unanswered. Now the only thing that remains of Easter Island’s culture is the moai, the giant stone heads which overlook the sea.

By the twenty-first century, our society was fragmented into so many cultures and subcultures that individuals found themselves isolated in their cultural tastes. In the swarming mass of humanity could be found millions of cultural “castaways”. Many turned to the internet, sending their messages haphazardly into the sea of information simply in the hopes of finding someone they CAN relate to.

On the information superhighway, individuals around the world become connected in ways they never dreamed of before. Like minds meet and exchange ideas at the speed of thought, millions of times every day. The home PC patched into the world wide web becomes like a neuron in a vast global brain.Cultures collide, mingle, scatter to the four winds, collect in fertile areas across the planet.

Geographic boundaries disappear. Revolution is at hand.

In 1999, a chance online meeting of two cultural castaways became a mutual obsession. Once the initial setup of software was in place, the music started to flow. DnB collided with techno, jazz, funk, and classical as files were transferred back and forth from California to France. The end result was greater than the sum of its parts.

Maureen Evans-Hansen (formerly of Digital Sex and The World) and Daytuner are now living together, creating music from the comfort of their home studio. They’re still castaways, but at least they’re on the same island together.