Aucoin knew members of the Biscuits' road crew and had opened for the Biscuits in the past. In December 2005 Allen Aucoin was announced as the newest member of the band. The band began a search for their next drummer ending with a two-night, sold-out drum-off concert at the Borgata's Music Box in Atlantic City. In 2005 drummer Sammy Altman left the band to pursue a career in medicine. This era (sometimes referred to as 'the nine-nine' by Disco Biscuits fans) featured energetic musical improvisation that explored new musical styles while still remaining listenable to a general jam-band audience. The band honed their style playing bars in the Philadelphia area in the mid-1990s and received particular acclaim in the jam-band fan scene during their 1999 tours. The term references the band incorporating elements of trance music - repetitive drum beats and melodic sections - into the instrumentation and conventions of a live jam-band, where guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums play structured songs with sections for exploratory improvisation. Their shared interests led them to develop and perfect a distinctive style of live electronic music known as 'trance fusion'. Brownstein, Gutwillig, Magner, and the original drummer, Samuel "Sammy" Altman, shared an affinity for psychedelic rock, electronic music, soul, blues, jazz and classical music. The Disco Biscuits formed in 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania.
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