This 1997 Kirk Degiorgio set, one of his fan’s most loved, was made up of his The Message In Herbie’s Shirts album along with some additional tracks. From relatively early in his career, In With Their… demonstrates Degiorgio’s broad and sophisticated approach to electronic music, its deftly put together techno, deep house, synth-funk, IDM and downtempo tracks derived from his jazz funk/Detroit techno passions and influences and carefully weaved into something new. 

Choice tracks include album opener, the appropriately named “Epic,” a lengthy, super-sleek deep house/techno traveller based around a simple but devastating 80s synth funk b-line, “A Short Track About Love,” a charming mood piece somewhere between library music, Blue Note jazz funk and a computer lullaby, while “The Message In Herbie’s Shirts” starts with a plaintive synth motif and gradually swells into a blustery robot version of Bitches Brew. Over 25 years since its release, In With Their… sounds way ahead of much contemporaneous downtempo electronica.