Les Gilbert seems to have provided field recordings of birds with the same kind of promotional push that cute old E.T. did for a certain candy product. His CD entitled Kakadu Billabong -- featuring star residents of the Australian Nourlangie Creek Billabong including the Masked Lapwing and the Shining Flycatcher -- seems to have been considered much groovier than the average wildlife disc. According to Gilbert's collaborator David Chesworth, the Kakadu Billabong venture was released "...just when chillout music was beginning to happen and ambient music was becoming respectable again."

As a result, the twitter and cackle of Gilbert's unpaid cast were in turn remixed into countless DJ performances, establishing if nothing more a new perimeter of closeness between rare breeds of pigeons and the local rave scene. Chesworth claims that Gilbert's contributions to the disc even include snoring, "...if you listen carefully as he tended to press record and then fall asleep." Other aspects of his career have kept him awake, no doubt, from his early days as a keyboardist on the Australian psychedelic scene to his later success setting up environmental installations in zoos, aquariums, museums, and parks internationally. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi