Editing Mutemath (section)

===Formation===
Mutemath started in 2002 as a long-distance collaboration between Paul Meany in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] and [[Darren King]] in [[Springfield, Missouri]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.one21music.com/mute-math/ |title=MuteMath-Electronica/Dance, Atmospheric Rock-Christian Music Artists - |website=One21music.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223065844/http://www.one21music.com/mute-math/ |archive-date=December 23, 2011 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> The two had known each other from their work together in Meany's previous band [[Earthsuit]]. Occasionally Meany would receive instrumental demo CDs from King. Fairly impressed with his efforts, Meany contacted King and asked if he could mess with the demos a bit, adding some ideas of his own. King obliged and the two would set in motion a sort of songwriting ping-pong match that would carry on for several months.

In February 2002, King moved to New Orleans to work closer with Meany in hopes to at least turn their efforts into some kind of side-project. Calling it "Math", the two explored many of their shared influences ranging from [[DJ Shadow]] to [[Björk]], yielding a lot of their earlier works to be more sample based electronica. After Meany's band officially broke up by that summer, King and Meany moved in together into a house they found in Mandeville, Louisiana where they spent all their time writing new songs and considering how to turn their side-project into a full band.

By 2003, they had recruited guitarist Greg Hill, another Springfield, MO native and longtime friend of King's. All now living in Southern Louisiana, the three worked on expanding their collection of songs while broadening the sound to a more rock infused hybrid. With the addition of more of their collective band influences like [[the Police]] and [[U2]] the music began to find a sound of its own. Meany took the early demos to friend and producer [[Tedd T]], who fell in love at first listen. The trio continued to work on demos with Tedd T for a possible EP while playing shows on the side with different bass players experimenting with the idea of eventually becoming a four-piece.

After months of considering different options for their new venture, the group decided to do things on their own and officially changed their name to "Mutemath". Joining up with Tedd T and lawyer/manager Kevin Kookogey, they started an independent label [[Teleprompt Records]]. Within a couple months Teleprompt was able to put together a developmental-deal with Warner Music, and Mutemath's debut ''Reset EP'' would be released that Fall on Warner's CCM label Word Records in an attempt to capitalize on the group's fan base from Earthsuit. By December 2004, the band finally recruited bass player [[Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas]] to become the official fourth member. They began touring to promote the release while using popular social networking sites like [[MySpace]] to spread word of the group. As their fan base grew, the band began to see an increasing number of shows sell out by early 2005. By the end of that year, they joined The Music is Much Too Loud Tour opening for [[Mae]] and [[Circa Survive]] where they began to chronicle their shows and updated their video blogs on a nightly basis gradually attracting more and more people to the Mutemath ground-swell. The band sold over 30,000 copies of ''Reset EP'' before the album went out of print in 2006.