Winduptoys – Double Exposure (Clan Analogue/Creative Vibes)

If you’re expecting straight up electro dub, you’re in the wrong place because local duo Winduptoys love to tangent, to establish their heavily reverbed beats and skittering electronics and then disappear into some strange electronic sound scape territory. Of course they eventually return to the groove, and when they do it’s with a euphoric intensity. Maybe it’s because they are proudly adverse to midi and soft synths, the textures of these electronics, seem somewhat grander, crunchier, squelchier, more tactile than everything else around. These are synthesized and electronic sounds that you can taste. And its clear that a lot of care has gone into crafting these larger than life bubbles, skips, basslines, these strange synthesized fragments of sound that somehow remain chilled out, yet quite busy careering energetically around the space. In fact it’s quite dense, a cavalcade of electronics falling onto a smooth groove and those repetitive bangin beats. Yet there’ also plenty of live instruments incorporating flutes. Glockenspiel, and tablas. They cover PIL’ the suit, providing perhaps one of the most hypnotically violent moments on Double Exposure and also team up with Psyburbia and Koshowko. It’s a dense hypnotic world, part experimental, part dub, all encompassing