Winduptoys

Heard enough sensitive glitch-pop yawns cooked up by yet another kid with a laptop and a bunch of soft-synths? Then return to an age when technology was real technology, knobs were real knobs and plug-ins were really plugged in!
Combine one-third chill-out textures more spacious than the 5th dimension, one-third dub grooves deeper than a black hole, one-third walls-of-sound more solid than solidified platinum and one third bleep-rock signals beamed into space as evidence of human intelligence. Robert ‘Bo’ Boehm and Jeremy C Smith are the pieces that make up the puzzle that is Winduptoys.

Winduptoys formed in the early years of the 21st century, the meeting of two great musicians, studio producers and live sound engineers, Robert Boehm (Bo) and Jeremy C Smith. Bo was already well-known in the Melbourne live scene for his legendary psychedelic industrial band Clowns Smiling Backwards, while Jeremy is occasionally seen with Melbourne alternative pop bands such as Tugboat. Both of them can also be spotted hunched behind mixing desks or turntables in live venues, clubs and studios throughout inner-Melbourne.

Peak through the Winduptoys studio window and you would have observed electricity, diodes, filters, oscillators, feedback loops, reverse phasing, tape machines, voltage, modified grooveboxes and more, all working towards the glorious cause of sound itself.