With visions of sugar plums and synthesizers dancing in our heads, we often find ourselves hitting the pillow full of crazy collaboration fantasies. Who would have realized that Daren Ho (Driphouse) and new hotshot Jeff Witscher (Rene Hell) would make such a [wet] dream come true? The pair, operating under the nom de plume Mandlebrot & Skyy, has their debut LP due on Digitalis in the near future and it promises to warm up these chilly winter nights with the hot sounds of kosmische.