Baltimore-based electronic musician Dan Deacon is by now quite notorious for the various “experiments” he has conducted throughout his career, including the mysterious recording that went viral and the use of a vegetable oil-powered tour bus. For the first episode of Motherboard’s new series “Experimental Music,” he joins Derek Mead for some sticky slime science and chats us up about haters, his new album, and how the end of the world will be anything but elegant. It’s two parts “Bill Nye,” 1.5 parts “Meet the Band,” and 100 percent awesome.

We can only imagine how cool it was to be on set for the filming of this inaugural episode, so we asked producer Erin Lee Carr to tell us in her own words how everything went down:

“It was 12 in the morning when we finally started shooting. We were all tired from the long journey but for that ridiculous ten minutes that the experiment was conducted reality fell away. It was all about one liners and makin’ some blue slime. Deacon, who just scored a film with Francis Ford Coppola, shed his serious exterior and just got down and dirty with for some science. Sincerely one of the best, most out-there guys in the industry, and one of the best pieces to ever take part in.”

Watch Dan get slimy here, and check out some stills from the show below: