This meeting led to the duo collaborating on music and eventually having Anderson join Flowchart while Bottel and Budd left the group.
Their second album, Cumulus Mood Twang, received positive reviews from Allmusic, Pitchfork Media, and CMJ, as well as having the group placed on URB's "Next 100" list.
The following releases from Flowchart included Commercial in 1999 and Broken and Blue in 2003, where the group began to have more of an experimental techno and house music sound.
[2] The record was criticized for being too similar to the group Stereolab by online music database Allmusic and the Philadelphia City Paper.
[3][2] Allmusic's review stated that "some of the songs on Multi-Personality Tabletop Vacation seem liks [sic] perfect replicas of Space Age Bachelor Pad or Mars Audiac Quintet-era Lab.
[4] In 1996, Flowchart released the Evergreen Noise Is Flexible EP through Carrot Top on August 6 and Tenjira on November 12.
[7] Tenjira marked a turning point for the group's style, and a review from Allmusic described it as "Flowchart managed to leave behind their Stereolab fixation and move on to simply sounding Japanese.