wait what fused the debut record of British indie rock group The xx with vocals from The Notorious B.I.G., and created the notorious xx, which quickly garnered critical acclaim from New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Guardian UK, who dubbed it “the best mashup album of 2010” — it received over one million downloads. Since then, he teamed up with Dave Eggers’ 826 Valencia and indieshuffle.com to release a new mixtape, this is real life, under a pay-what-you-want model, raising thousands of dollars for 826 Valencia, a youth writing non-profit.

With three albums to tour on, his live performances have taken him all over, from Fashion Week in Toronto, a club show in Kigali, Rwanda, playing at the top club in Bangkok, and performing with artists including Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, and Taking Back Sunday.

Charlie Kubal, the man behind the wait what project, creates music wherever he can — previously working at Google and traveling often, he’d create tracks in airports, and has since begun business school at Stanford. He finds time between Marketing class and study groups to produce new tracks and play live shows, which have been known to include eccentric costumes, a live drummer going nuts, free stuff, temporary tattoos, and lots and lots of dancing.

Young Digerati are the architects of a synth-heavy, Anglo-centric, (small "r") romantic sound that could have been built only in San Francisco (or in 1985). So it's no shock they've already scored airplay on their hometown's influential Live 105 - or that they've been booked on the station's BFD Festival and on DJ Aaron Axelsen's legendary "Britpop" night Popscene.

The prototypical Young D tune features lushly programmed keyboards and guitars, layered over live drums and bass. It inevitably stars a girl whom the band clearly will never get, and guys with whom they'll never quite fit in. "Why do the girls I like move to the South to start a brand new life?" That's the ego-crushing query that crops up in the very first line of the debut single, The Dauphin. The band's expanding cycle of songs consistently and un-self-consciously calls to mind the Pet Shop Boys collaborating with the Postal Service on the soundtrack to a lost John Hughes film. They're currently writing, recording, and performing gigs on the West Coast and around the Bay Area.