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.

Little Dragon is a Grammy-nominated band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in 1996 and they released their fifth album Season High in April 2017.

In this episode, Singer Yuki Minigano and drummer Eric Bowdoin break down the song, Sweet.

My name is Yuki Minigano. My name is Eric. And we are from Little Dragon.

This was a track that we wrote right after coming off tour.

Being on the road for a long time, it creates a vacuum almost inside you. You really want to feel that vacuum with new beats. We started with the bass line.

We listen to a lot of South African house music that has been a big inspiration.

Eric's wife is South African.

So we go there every other year and my wife, she's the aunt to many kids and some of the kids are DJs.

So I just give them a USB and please feel it with as much as possible.

You know, there's one song by DJ Sindo. She's an awesome house producer.

A lot of that stylists, I wouldn't say that they're behind but they're using older sounds that we are familiar with and just doing it their way.

And it's very refreshing.

Some of those songs I have this kind of simple naive synth melodies, almost like Nintendo, game-ish.

It feels like it's, I know somebody who has a PC, I'm going to his place, I managed to kind of make a mix out of it. And then there you go, it's out.

That's what appeals to us, the rawness.

We were in our studio in Gothenburg.

I don't think we would have been so free if we would have been like in a studio in Burbankos, you know, like expensive rent and the technicians.

Big mixing tables.

Yeah, and you're almost like you're in the spotlight.

Our studio started 15 years ago with the PC and trying to learn and so it's just developed out of that.

The guys each have their own studio setup. So a song will start in somebody's room. The song in particular started in Eric's room.

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