New York-based pop-jazzatronica combo M'lumbo formed in 1984 and began performing covers of tv soundtracks. They progressively expanded into world-funk-jazz with their first three cassettes: Relaxin' With (1989), Plays for Young Lovers (1989), Plays For God (1990), summarized on the anthology Life After Death (1991).

The Book Of Night Burning in a Garden of Ice (Korm Plastics, 1998) increased the doses of atmospheric jazz, somewhat reminiscent of the Lounge Lizards. The album perfected an art of composition that blends live instrumentation and samples, while avoiding the abstract collage.

They pared down to a trio (Ron Boggs, Rob Ray, Kurt Johannes Leege) for Spinning Tourists in a City of Ghosts (Unit Circle, 1999), credited to M'Lumbo vs Kobalt 6, a work that bridges free-jazz, dissonant avantgarde and dance music. For five minutes Science Headquarters sounds like a random sampling of videogame soundtracks, before the synthesizers and the drum-machines create the order of syncopated techno music. The horns add a jazz feeling, and polyrhythms add an ethnic feeling before the track ends at 11 minutes. Metamorphosis and regeneration remain the underlying themes of the other tracks. The Soul Exchange, another eleven-minute piece, is seven minutes of chaotic collage before a brief Afro-funk orgy. The Secret Of Fear is deconstructed in the same cubist way, but adds a cinematic quality to the jungle of disjointed noises. After an interlude of Karlheinz Stockhausen-like dissonant electronics, the 13-minute track mutates into a pounding fanfare a` la Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. Things get even looser in Call This Number Now, a pure abstraction of exotic instruments and exotic sounds. The montage technique reaches its zenith of sophistication in Sprawling Mausoleums, a eleven-minute track that changes personality several times while always maintaining a dense texture. M'lumbo quotes famous pieces of music throughout the album, but the quotations are mere blips in the background radiation of alien sounds.

The Nine Billion Names Of (Multimood, 2001) was, instead, precisely what their previous albums had carefully avoided: an abstract collage of aimless soounds.

M'lumbo also made the film "System Noise".

Sacrifices To The Neon Gods (Mulatta, 2006) is a tribute to tv soundtracks of the past.

Then came The Angel Wars (2008), Celestial Ghetto (2011), Tuning in to Tomorrow (2012), Popular Science (2013), Fairytale Aliens (2020), in collaboration with Page Hamilton, Celestial Mechanics (2020), in collaboration with Jane Ira Bloom, and The Summer of Endless Levitation (2023).