Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It's a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in front of him. The flurry of interlocking sounds he's produced at Tokyo venue Eat And Meets Cay in early February came out rapidly, as if Wong plotted them out on graph paper beforehand.
But then, Wong wakes from the trance, turns his head and picks up a drum machine.
"It's the first time I've ever used a drum machine live before," he admits after the show. "I just started practicing with it this week."
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