the band has collaborated with many disparate artists, including uk anarchist band chumbawamba (sometimes using the name antidote), the dog faced hermans (one former member, andy moor, has played guitar in the ex since 1990), and with the late avant-garde cellist tom cora in the early 1990s, resulting in the album "scrabbling at the lock" (1991) and the follow-up "and the weathermen shrug their shoulders" (1993). the album "in the fishtank 5" (1999) was made with chicago's tortoise, and on "in the fishtank 9" (2001) they collaborated with members of sonic youth and the dutch improvisers instant composers pool orchestra (icp).