B.L.O.T came into being a year ago when three Delhiites — Gaurav Malaker, Akshar Pillai and Avinash Kumar — got tired of DJs playing item numbers and cheesy hip-hop. “We wanted to experiment with something new,” said Malaker, 23, who deejays and produces the music for the group. While this techno and progressive house act love to mix their music with visuals to make an instant connect with the audience, they love incorporating other things like art and photography as well. “We basically match visuals with the kind of music we play so that both the visual and aural senses are occupied, which eventually makes the listeners connect with us in more than one way,” said Malaker, who has been a deejay for seven years and often gets behind the console and sometimes turns percussionist.

As Malaker thumped the tabla and the darbouka, Pillai, 24, alternated between scratching discs and immersing the audience in the visuals that the group had shot. “The domain of an

A-V ensemble is fairly unknown. So the video footage that we use is not something we plan ahead. We just capture interesting images that tell a story,” said Pillai, who added that the shots could be anything — from the streets of Chandni Chowk to the swish parties of expatriates. So when Kumar went on a European tour recently, he shot 25,000 photographs, a lot of which will find their way into their visual projections at various shows. “We always shoot more material than required from every place that we visit. And when we put them all together, sometimes it makes for a visual cinema that tells a short story as well,” smiled Pillai.