here's what Glyn said about the collaboration: "And we didn't know at the time who would be singing Carbon Kid, but we knew that Brian was sort of up for doing it, so we just gave it a go. And it absolutely worked." ... "Well, we've known him for a while. He was living in the flat above the studio we were working in. He sort of woke up at three in the afternoon, and we gave him the CD to have a listen to. He really liked it and he came down and did the vocals that evening. It all worked out really well." © Outburn magazine 2003

here's what Brian said about the collaboration: "Well when we were making Black Market Music, we got a phone call from our management saying 'we want to manage another band, if that's OK with you' and we said, 'yeah sure that's fine as long as they're not shit'. And an Alpinestars track came out on an NME free CD and I heard it when we were at Olympic Studios and was really, really impressed. It really reminded me of Kraftwerk and their early stuff which is really quite cold and robotic in a similar way. So we were totally down with it and we were really happy with the fact that our managers who are total rock heads were getting into some electronic tunes. And so the Alpinestars did their first album 'Basic' which we really liked and they also did the 'Taste In Men' remix, which still stands as one of the best ones. And after we'd mixed the album I still found myself looking for a flat and staying in the studio flat above the recording studio in Shepard's Bush, and I didn't actually manage to find myself a place until after we got back off tour, so I ended up staying there for a while. And after touring, the Alpinestars were in the studio doing their second album and they were my downstairs neighbors. They were doing this album, 'White Noise' and I used to go down and use the washing machine a lot, cos I didn't have one, and we just started hanging out and they just wanted me to try 'Carbon Kid'. So I listened to it and then we went to the pub, then back to the studio, did two takes, the second was the one, went back to pub and that was that. And for me it was really good cos I didn't write the lyrics, didn't write the vocal melody line. Just my soul purpose there was to be the singer and it was responsibility free. There was the performance, but there's just no pressure, which was why it kind of like happened so quickly and why I think it's so natural and so accomplished." © Silver Rocket magazine 2002