It’s a cold January morning and I find myself in the offices of Ringsend-based electronic music label Osaka Recordings listening to the impending release by local lads ‘Double Adaptor’.

I have just spent the last forty or so minutes discussing the merits of the Italian futurists, in particular Luigi Russolo and his early twentieth century noise machines, with head honcho Patrick Henry, so at this stage I think I am primed for anything!

Their CD spins in its tray… coffee table music this certainly is not, but pretentious claptrap it is neither, a certain fidgety otherwordly charm, think jazz meets electronica meets progressive rock and you might be closer to their sound, or as recently described: “…Double Adaptor is a minature improvising electronic bar band. Their genre-bending oeuvre traverses squirt-prov collages via howling 70’s rock guitar histrionics and frequently all within the same song…”

Double Adaptor are fresh from curating their own very successful ‘Sonolux’ weekend at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin and gig frequently around the city, often with no fixed set, improvising on the spot.

With track titles like ‘200 nanowebbers’ and ‘Saxophone Collosus’ Roy Carroll and Keith O’Brien explain that in Dublin a lot of people “don’t get them” or understand what they are trying to achieve but in Germany– the home of electronic music– they seem to have a large following.

They recently played enthusiastically-received shows in Berlin and Cologne and have been asked back to play in May. They also have been invited to play at an off-site event as part of the Barcelona-based Sonar electronic music festival later on this summer. Things are starting to happen for Double Adaptor, why don’t you plug in?

Double adaptor are Roy Carroll, computers and keyboards and Keith O’Brien keyboards, computers and guitars, and their debut release ‘Live At The Village Vanguard’ is curently in all good record shops or online at www.osaka.ie.