What do you get when you cross a master mathmatician and a sampler? Manitoba! Join us at the New Bar Bodega space for a night of original electronica created by Canada's Dan Snaith aka Manitoba and new Wellington resident Rotor + who will be playing for the first time under that guise to Wellington audiences!

Until recently, no-one knew who the hell Dan Snaith was. But his debut album as Manitoba, 'Start Breaking My Heart', changed all that with a motherlode of critical bon mots and performances at The Big Chill, an Xposure Live gig for John Kennedy's Xfm show and DJ Luv from the mighty LTJ Bukem, Ross Allen, Andy Weatherall, Gilles Peterson, DJ Food to Pete Lawrence, plus the maximum capacity, double headline gig with Four Tet at London's 93 Feet East in August. Along with Susumu Yokota, Manitoba is The Leaf Label's biggest success story.

Despite the club scene reference points, the Manitoba sound is not so easy to pin down. 'Start Breaking My Heart' is a beguiling mix of warmth and melody, deep beats and electronic soundscapes. Says Dan, "although I listen to mostly instrumental music, my favourite music is almost all simple songs with singing: Jim O'Rourke, Cat Power, Nick Drake, The Free Design... all pretty folky, very melodic stuff. Manitoba is about trying to make simple, folksy melodies the most important thing." Simple? Folksy? That's all very well, but what about the Big Daddy Kane swagger that comes through? Somehow, Dan's tunes are a sublime mixture of naïveté, spacey splendour and goldplated knuckleduster toughness. Yo.

Dan will be joined by local soundscaper Rotor + who recenlty played to the super-sized crowd at the UK's Big Chill outdoor event. Rotor+ prefers the intimate environments to play in, likr the one we intend to provide for this electronic double bill at The New Bar Bodega space in Ghuznee Street, Wellington. It will be doorsales only, for $10 from 9pm... it will sell out as we have limited the capacity of this new space, so come early!