 Prop released their debut album, "Small Craft Rough Sea", in 2001 on Undercover Music/Silent Recordings label.In October that year, Radio National's Brent Clough aired some of their tracks on his programme, "Otherworlds", and described their sound as "fusing jazz, classical, minimalist, funk and techno elements into a seamless whole" and noted their "remarkably diverse influences – with selections from Olivier Messiaen and Philip Glass to Sci-Fi soundtracks, Squarepusher and Al Green".