after hearing "greg hates car culture" while browsing a minneapolis record store, mike paradinas (also known as μ-ziq) immediately signed funk on to his record label planet mu, leading to three releases for the label in 2001, a collaboration album with speedranch, "making orange things," a 7" ep, "defluxion," and a full-length album, "songs about my cats". in addition, he also released "doll doll doll", as well as split 12" with cex and a raggacore 7" as snares man!, all in the same year. the snares man! 7" has been cited as influential in the development of raggacore. the following year, 2002, funk released three full-length albums, "higgins ultra low track glue funk hits 1972–2006," "2370894" (under vsnares), and "winter in the belly of a snake," plus a 15-minute limited edition ep, "a giant alien force more violent & sick than anything you can imagine". 2003 saw the release of "the chocolate wheelchair album", "find candace", a 7" ep "badminton", two split 7" eps, one with fanny under beesnares, and the other with phantomsmasher, and an experimental collaboration album with hecate, "nymphomatriarch." following 2004, funk released "huge chrome cylinder box unfolding", three eps, "horse and goat," "infolepsy ep," and "moonglow/this bitter earth" and a remix of doormouse's skelechairs. during this time period, funk started using cubase next to med.