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 Herway.

Simon Green is a producer and DJ who's been making music under the name Benobo since 2000.

In January 2017, he released his sixth album, Migration.

For the song Break Apart on that album, he enlisted Rye for vocals.

And in this episode, the two of them tell the story of how the track came together.

The song is called The Song of the Day of the Day.

The song is called The Song of the Day of the Day.

My name is Simon Green and I go under the name Benobo.

When I first started this song, I was on a flight from Miami to LA.

It was an evening flight.

I was a bit of a weird mind space.

All I wanted at that time was just to sort of be still and stop traveling.

I spent kind of a year just living nowhere.

Just gone tour, just kind of in hotels and tour buses, living out of a suitcase.

So I was feeling sort of tired and a little more sombre.

So I kind of, I pulled up Ableton when I built this patch from a plug-in, a core game one,

which was like the classic house piano.

And just drowned it in reverb and just did these very slow notes one after another.

Looking out the window, whatever was passing down underneath.

That was the opening core progression.

And I also had this loop, this little kind of chiming percussive loop.

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