You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Flatbush Zombies are a hip-hop trio from Brooklyn.
They formed in 2000.
Their album 3001, A Laced Odyssey,
came out in 2016 and debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard charts.
Eric the Architect is one of the three MCs in the band, and he's also the group's producer.
In this episode, Eric breaks down how the song Bounce was made,
and how it ended up that the lead single from their album doesn't have a chorus.
My name is Eric the Architect, and I'm one third of the illustrious Flapper Zombies.
There was a record, it was a Bibio record.
I was really, I was playing it a lot at the time.
The name of the Bibio song I sampled was called The Palm of the Wave.
I think it was one of those songs you really like sometimes when you really like sampling something,
you play it so often that you're like,
I don't want to sample this because then I'm not going to listen to it the same way anymore.
But this one was special.
Usually when I'm sampling something, I listen to it for a couple of things.