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The spells cast by Voodeux don't involve messy chicken blood or puncturing little dolls with big pins. In fact, the duo's minimal techno and house tracks trick your ears with how clean they can sound. The tiny crunches within the beats on "Just a Spoonful (edit)" are subtle as the sound of, say, chomping down on hard-shelled bugs--there's some grit and crackling in there, but overall these are smooth surfaces that warm into melodic galaxy raids as the tune travels into warped space. The song comes off the The Paranormal, the creeping batch of what producers James Watts (AKA KiloWatts) and Tanner Ross are calling their "collaborative black magic." The disc was shown the light of day thanks to local techno honcho Claude VonStroke, who is releasing the record on his mothership label