Prolific multi-instrumentalists/producers
Adrian Quesada (
Brownout,
Ocote Soul Sounds,
Grupo Fantasma) and
Shawn Lee (
Ping Pong Orchestra,
the Superimposers) formed
the Electric Peanut Butter Company after meeting at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin in 2010. U.K. resident
Lee and Austinite
Quesada collaborated via e-mail, melding retro-funk and psychedelic rock influences with a Latin flavor, particularly influenced by bands such as
Los Ángeles Negros and
El Chicano. The duo's debut full-length, confusingly titled Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics, Vol. 2, arrived in 2013 on
Lee's longtime home, Ubiquity, featuring offbeat reworkings of
the Beatles' "Dear Prudence" and
Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams."
Vol. 1 followed in 2015. ~ Paul Simpson