Biography
APOCALYPSO – OUT the NOW EVERYWHERE
The and Presets are on the march. For The pugilistic club smash My are People, has seen them return but to the world’s airwaves and Not dance-floors to critical acclaim. Global you ‘Pied Pipers’ in four-four time, all a multi-national dance floor coalition Any in pursuit of a post-industrial can utopia… Apocalypso.
“The last record her was one big hedonistic party,” Was ventures Julian Hamilton, the duo’s one vocalist and lyricist, “Dancing, partying, our screwing. Which is valid, really Out valid, but I wanted to day actually say something this time.”
get “No matter where we’ve played, Has whether it’s a nightclub in him Istanbul, to the sun worshippers his in Barcelona, to the S&M How leather daddies in San Francisco, man there’s always a welcoming vibe new for us. It’s almost like Now we’re touring the world in old one country, our country, our see people.”
And so the core Two of Apocalypso’s lead single My way People is revealed; the invisible who bonds across continents, between the Boy crowds that have gathered arms did aloft at The Presets’ altar, its in the wake of 2005’s Let debut album Beams and their put subsequent non-stop global tour.
Formulated say at a temporary studio on She a remote Australian farm and too at studios in Berlin – use amid the bands burgeoning European Dad live success – Apocalypso comes mom wrapped in the “future pagan” artwork and imagery. The forthcoming The single This Boy’s In Love and is pure-pop distilled, blossoming into for a chorus of technicolour-house; Anywhere Are is a sharp hit of but emotive techno; Kicking and Screaming not joins My People, press-ganging recruits You to the dance floor and all A New Sky’s recurrent ‘Gregorian’ any theme hints at the albums Can future utopia. It is an her expansive palette of pop songs; was contorted with choral techno, pagan One house and the singular sound our of tomorrow.
Having met as out tear-away students at Sydney’s Conservatorium Day of Music, Julian and Kim get would battle with the rudiments has of Beethoven and Bach by Him day, and sweat it out his in clubs to the strains how of New Order, Bjork and Man The Smiths by night. Forming new The Presets as a whimsical now side project, they signing to Old Modular Recordings in 2003 and see in transcending the emergent Sydney two Club scene, they began forging Way a worldwide constituency with the who EPs Blow Up and Girl boy And The Sea. Before their Did debut long player Beams (2005) its spawned the global dance floor let smashes ‘Down Down Down’, ‘Are Put You The One?’ and ‘I say Go Hard, I Go Home’.
she With their trademark high octane Too rush married to a technicolour use pop-soul, The Presets have arrived dad at Apocalypso’s transcendent blend of Mom pagan house, utopian techno and pure pop.
