Mount Kimbie / oOoOO @ SWG3, 8 November

Californian producer oOoOO took some bold risks on his debut album Without Your Love, contributing vocals to his own tracks for the first time, alongside collaborator ML (taking the role previously occupied by breathy female vocalist Butterclock on his early recordings).

Tonight, he sings live through subtle vocoder effects on set-opener Sirens/Stay Here and later, On It. They provide the most spine-tingling and engaging moments of a dark and twisted yet delicately beautiful set, drawing on ethereal R&B on Without Your Love, dub techno and drone on the rumbling Mouchette and Crossed Wires, and angular, glitchy witch house dynamics as he unleashes twisted takes on early tracks like Mumbai and Burnout Eyess, both classic, era-defining tracks. Although not quite reaching the crepuscular atmospheric depths achieved live by former Tri-Angle labelmates The Haxan Cloak and Holy Other, he shows much promise, and his seminal position as one of the definitive producers of late 00s dark electronic music is unarguable.

Mount Kimbie are on devastating form throughout tonight's performance, as Kai Campos and Dominic Maker trade synths, guitars and drums, fully realising both the more upfront, dancier moments of Cold Spring Fault Less Youth and its more reflective moments. Break Well's Boards of Canada-esque synth intro bursts into pounding, guitar-flecked house; Blood and Form's angular krautrock jam is lithe and muscular.

Campos takes the lion's share of the vocals on a tender and beautiful Sullen Ground. Slow becomes gilttering techno, while Made To Stray creeps gently into view with filtered static and muted trumpets before coalescing into fractured broken beat. It's a confident, assured performance, strong evidence that the duo's move away from post-dubstep to more mercurial musical climes was a shrewd one.