Close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting on a beach looking over the Pacific Ocean. The soundtrack to your thoughts is highly likely to be a band called Shapeshifter, heralded as a musical phenomenon for their ground breaking live shows and unique blend of heavy soul/drum and bass. Their reputation as pioneers of modern music was built by a unique approach to electronic music which had previously been restricted to computer based studio musicians and has earned them widespread critical and commercial acclaim in their motherland of New Zealand and across Australia.