Geoff Wilkinson, founder of Us3 and producer of the global hit Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia).

On August 22, Us3 returns with Soundtrack, their first album in more than a decade. The album features the noir-esque single Resist the Rat Race.

Our conversation goes behind the curtain to explore reinvention — how silence shaped a new sound, why starting again can be the most radical victory of all, and what it means to keep creating when you thought the music was finished.