The Incubus album S.C.I.E.N.C.E. accomplished something that very few albums ever have - it created a feeling of leering alienation in me. It was a kind of technical and technological advancement in music that made me feel out of date, missing something. Radiohead's Kid A pulled this off as well. It was a time for reaching into the subconscious for new sounds, creating and releasing things before they were even fully understood, something highly risky and not something I see much of these days, when many musicians seem, paraphrasing Han Solo, to have been told the odds.

"Redefine" is the cooking opening track from that album. Heavy music was still in its renaissance, with groups such as Incubus and 311 taking the rap element to its outer limits before the formula was ultimately dissected and compromised.

The rhythmic complexity in every measure of this song is brain-busting, but the chorus vocal is one of my favorite rhythmic inventions, all over the beat, flourishing in machine-gun runs of singing originality.

The middle break is a bassist's dream. And as a drummer, I can tell you what absolute fun it is to take part in. It's a sequence of locked-in musical trance, just tunnel-visioned, in the zone, ecstatic.

The most exhausted I ever felt after a show was after seeing Incubus.