The band members met while attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The name Bedouin Soundclash is from a dub record by Badawi, released on ROIR records in 1996.
They released their first album, Root Fire in 2001, and their second album, Sounding a Mosaic, in 2004. During the recording of Sounding a Mosaic, Bedouin Soundclash formed a close bond with producer Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains, with whom they continue to work today.
The album's single "When the Night Feels My Song" was the band's breakthrough single on Canadian radio, charting at No. 1 on 102.1 The Edge CFNY and gaining airplay on commercial radio stations throughout Canada in the summer of 2005. It was the No. 2 most played track on Canadian Radio, competing with Nickelback's "Photograph" and Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends". The song was used in a commercial for Zellers, and was the theme for CBC Kids. It was used in a 2006 T-Mobile ad in the UK,[citation needed] and in the Teton Gravity Research ski film, Anomaly.

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