by RAF KATIGBAK

So what in the hell is a "secret mommy," anyway? In contemplating this question, the mind reels with endless scandalous possibilities. Is it a young woman ashamed of her unexpected pregnancy? Or maybe it's a man's mistress being explained to his naïve but curious child? Well, the answer, as Canadian producer Adam Dixon (aka Secret Mommy) puts it, is this. "Actually, Secret Mommy is just the result of word games played between my friends and I. I love it 'cause it can be anything." Okay, so maybe it's not the kind of sordid band-name origin story that makes for good rock legend, but Dixon just isn't that kind of guy. Like many of the dancefloor-destroying, mashed-up mixdowns he's come to be known for, Dixon's funny, playful and easy to get along with, which, in the world of experimental electronic music, is a welcome rarity.

Discovering noisy, hyperkinetic electronic music by way of noisy, hyperkinetic punk music, Dixon's latest offering (the Hawaii 5.0 EP on his own Ache Records) has a playful and charming sloppiness to it that owes as much to the circumstances surrounding its inception as it does his noise-rock roots.

"I wanted to make an album for my brother's wedding in Hawaii. So I thought I'd bring a mini-disc and record sounds and make an album with the sounds. But then I just got so impatient. I said, ‘Forget it,' and made the album before I left." The result is a plunderphonic patchwork of tropical sounds - Hawaiian slack key guitar and language lessons, Brazillian bossa nova, Caribbean steel drums and of course seagulls - processed, distorted, and sliced via computer and spat out the other end like a volcano of musical magma erupting at 140 bpm.

"I wanted to make it somewhat accurate," says Dixon of his respect for Hawaii's musical traditions. "I didn't want to just pull stuff out of my ass. Don't get me wrong, I didn't write any essays or take any books out of the library or anything. In fact, I actually fucked up. I thought there were seagulls in Hawaii so I put them on the album. Of course, when I got there - no fucking seagulls."

With Tinkertoy, Des Cailloux et du Carbone, DJ Utility and DJ Ovalroaster at O Patro Vys on Friday, Sept. 24, 10 p.m., $8

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