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The collaboration began over mail and resulted in recording sessions in Wiltzie's Austin, TX studio in 1999. As Stars Of The Lid founder Wiltzie told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine, his collaboration with Robert Donne from Labradford & more recently Anjou began when "We all met during a Texas swing of a Labradford tour that SOTL opened for back in spring 1996. They stayed at my house for a few days and we became fast friends. A year later Wiltzie was asked to join Labradford for their “Mi Media Naranja” European tour of 1997 as the sound technician. This tour also included Bruce Gilbert of the legendary band Wire who was the opening act and joined them in the van for the entire tour. With Bruce’s nightly improvisations of minidisk field recording explosions running through a Sherman Filter Bank, it left a profound effect on Adam & Bobby, and led to inspiring internal philosophical discussions on the importance of improvisation. After concluding six weeks in the van the idea of creating a unique collaboration separate from our other projects was realized. As of late, Wiltzie lives in Brussels, and Donne joined Stars of the Lid on their last tour of Europe in 2016 playing modular synth. They still collaborate musically so new Aix Em Klemm recordings remain a possibility.