Their music has a science fiction feel without the early jerky robotics. It recalls the term ‘wall of sound’ but presents it more fluidly, a stage curtain of sound resembling the aurora borealis that pulses and sometimes throbs, waves and weaves and wanders about the background.

On center stage, writer/producer/director/leading actor Andrew Labedz sings the story line while performing a modern dance enactment of the theme; and adds harmonica. Dave Knowlden contributes some sax notes to his intense fiddling with keys and knobs. Drummer Alan Williams, who wasn’t available for a recent benefit performance at Cedars, keeps the beat.

The sound blanket wrapping the songs is done by Digis; a mob of them; ‘live on stage’ in real time. The Realtime Digimob. They are keyboards and computers and synthesizers and miles of wires.

It’s easy to imagine the ganglia of wires acting autonomously, making their own sounds and possibly conspiring, but don’t think about that. If you’re paranoid, don’t even look at the wires.

Think about the music and you realize it’s not just weird; in fact, it may not be weird at all. Naturally, it looks and sounds different, since it’s produced differently — just as an electric guitar sounds different from acoustic — and ‘knobbing’ does not resemble ‘strumming.’  The lyrics are not as complex as the orchestration, but they bear a message (e.g.: “Entering the Podquaduct”), and the song structure is familiar, with melody lines, and rhythms for dancing.

Electronics used to be the ‘wave of the future’ back when. For The Realtime Digimob and their growing fanbase, electronic music is happening, now.