King Roc's new label Mutual Society is a concept project - vinyl art by Seb Godfrey of Drunkpark, and a set of vinyl releases that will be massively re-edited and chopped and changed to create a final album, to be released late 2008. No song is planned to sound much like it started. And each EP has a theme - #1, Lunaris, was about coincidence and randomness, and release #2, Communique is about patterns, mathematics, and interconnectedness and is out on vinyl Mar 17 through Discomania.

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"Maths was the reason I was moved from a public to a private school," says King Roc. "I was crap at it as a kid - the worst in the class. But a few years into the new school and about to start my GCSEs, I realised it had become what I was good at. That was frustrating because my passion those days was art and design. (Music, back then, was taught so restrictively that I only ever thought of it as part of my teenage rebellion.)

"So here I was, pretty good at something I didn’t really care about whilst struggling to become any good at the things which mattered to me the most. It wasn’t until I was older, about 20, I finally realised the point to Maths. It is a language, the language of everything. From boiling a kettle for a cup of tea to strumming the strings on a guitar, all of it can be described by maths.

"Everything we ever learn comes down to how well we are able to communicate it. Whether is being able to write a novel, a song or paint a picture or work out problems and supply solutions. All of it is communication – of our thoughts and emotions, ideas and beliefs. Finding ways to explain how things are the way they are or at least perceive to be.

"One of the fascinating things about maths is how it can be used to describe the things we consider to be the most creative – like music. How music is actually just a serious of numbers rolled into a equations and sequences. But that would surely be the way to describe it to someone who does know how to feel something from music. However I have heard that Beethoven was not actually the musical genius in the way most of us consider but actually suffered from autism and had an incredible knowledge of the balance between different numbers. After all numbers are just chords and grooves really anyway."