Holy f—! I just realized I probably shouldn’t use this article’s band name (Holy F-bomb) on a family newspaper’s website. Oh well, I’m sure I won’t be the last one to write around it.

They may not make it to the Wal-Mart rack, but this Toronto instrumental quartet has been making some noise with their Battles-esque cocktail of futuristic, effects-laden keyboard runs set to supercharged dance beats. “Deranged disco experimenters” is how one observer described them.

Like a schizoid, primitive version of Daft Punk, front men Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh rig their keyboards with old school equipment (including a 35 mm film sequencer, toy keyboards and toy phaser guns) and play in front of a regular drum and bass rhythm section.

HF has served as the backing band for ex-Anti-Pop Consortium rapper Beans and has wowed critics at some of the biggest music festivals in the world. Their latest album, “LP,” was released last October.

I caught up with Walsh the other day as the band toured in the Southwest.

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RC: When did the band form?

GW: Around three years ago. We all come from other bands and we still have our other bands. It’s kind of a tangled web of connections. Most of us are from the general area and Brian is from Nova Scotia.

RC: What is your approach to making electronic music?

GW: We sort of do it differently than most electronic bands in that we don’t use laptops or sequencers. We play everything manually, live on stage and in the studio. We take the keys and run them through effects. We also add random elements through the bass. It’s not anything super crazy. A lot of people think we’re improvising up there and assume that we have no preconceived plan, but we actually do have structured songs.

RC: How did you hook up with Beans?

GW: We met him a few years ago at Pop Montreal. It was actually one of the first Holy F– shows ever. He just happened to be there in the audience. He liked what we were doing and wanted to collaborate with us. He had just come out with a new record, so we learned all of his songs and was his backing band for a while. We played Coachella with him as well. It was a great, great experience. Every once in a while we’ll hopefully back him again.

Holy F., A Place To Bury Strangers (Can), Stella Mora, The Bureau

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8 p.m., $10

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