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His best work to date has been with The Blow, Khaela Maricich’s sublime laptop-pop project, but these days YACHT’s Jona Bechtolt works alone. Last year’s I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real. was an absurdly New Age-y and tinny rap-radio pastiche—a fact that hasn’t prevented him from touring nonstop since it came out. In concert, he makes up for the often uneven songs with a marathon multimedia live show: PowerPoint presentations, backflips and—you’ve been warned—relentless audience participation.