In some ways they were ahead of their time, or everyone else was behind theirs - I'm never sure which way around that really is. They were online in 1996 and transmitting entire shows via ISDN a couple of years later. They did all this amazing exploratory music on low-end gear. They worked it really hard and achieved that incredible sound that blew everything else out of the water.

Fun fact: Lifeforms is an audio description of an Ayahuasca journey. Did you ever see the vid?