Hi there can seem a bit drab sometimes when everyone’s on their phone, engrossed in the latest trends…So why not do what you want. Electronica Sydney band the Presets stands-out for their raw energy, hypnotic beats and candid approach to modern-day-life.
the Presets are pure dance! The best bet at explaining what this means, looking backwards to the 80’s, is a spontaneous artistic expression, perhaps of a subconscious response to something magical and beautiful from another time, remembered with psychic instinctiveness during the creative process, that leads us to a richer and more profound, substantial personal and spiritual experience. Digging deeper into the cultural sediment, to find echoes of a time and a way of life that was more real and enchanted, needed as a tonic for the more soulless aspects of the harsher neo-liberal capitalist day-to-day world that has exploded into being around us.
The Presets released their first album Beams in the second half of 2005, a very strong collection of songs combining slightly harder-edged, polished dance sounds with melodic pop. Julian Hamiltons’ vocal style is a little bit appealingly Brit-punk with an Australian accent, a broad, blunt, slightly abrasive but emotionally raw and honest vocal delivery.
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