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Yet Skank's mega-success only served to strengthen the band members' resolve to remain grounded. As a result their 1998 production Siderado was an introspective expression in which the musicians harmonized their electronic origins with psychedelic and acoustic influences. Maquinarama, the band's latest LP, marked a subtle transition. Skank continues to ride the psychedelic wave while adding traces of funk, soul, surf music, drum and bass, bossa nova, and Latin pop to its sound.

Skank is already talking about the next project. "Probably the next album will follow the influence of the last two," Ferretti speculates. "Maybe we'll include softer sounds and more ballads. We're listening to a lot of Brazilian music from the south. And as always we continue to rediscover artists like Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben Jor. These are artists who know how to take influences from around the world to make music with a Brazilian accent. We're also listening to a lot of English rock from the Sixties, The Kinks, The Stones, and of course Yellow Man and Peter Tosh, because Jamaican music continues to be our foundation."