3OH!3 is an American hip hop and electronica band from Boulder, Colorado. The band is named for the area code of that region, 303. In April 2008 the band, composed of members Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte, signed with Photo Finish Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records). Foreman and Motte met in a physics class at the University of Colorado. The members were inspired by the underground hip-hop scene and Foreman, then a member of the band Eight Hour Orphans, invited Motte to mix some beats with him. The two were helped early on by friendships they had made with local acts such as Grace Gale, Signal to Noise and The Blackout Pact. As Motte puts it, "We had it pretty easy. We had a lot of friends in bands who chaperoned us around and got us shows, and that was enough hype or buzz to get us going on our own."