The Presets

they seem to have a fair few remixes knocking around of late too. the cut copy 'girl and the sea' is much better than the original (which I liked fine enough). not as pretty but great bassline.

i think the presets best tune is i go hard, i go home. i hope they release that on 12" soon with remixes too.

need to hear the midnight juggernauts rmx, stat.

Also, Midnight Juggernauts badly need to release an album if "Raised by Wolves" is any indication. AYEEOOOWWW etc.

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yes I do the handclaps to 'are you the one'! there is a 'club edit' on the 12" which alas I still haven't heard due to my turntable being outta commission (along with simian mob disco and van she (roffle) mixes).

-- lil' merzbow wow (birthday.part...), May 29th, 2006

wait, "are you the one?" 12"? if so, what/where/when/&c? would be nice to spin the original or a bonus beats/extended mix . . .

new thing to have nightmares about: indie kids with glowsticks.

What have Pitchfork got to do with this?

The DJs were fucking great but the support act was horrible.

they have done the right thing - 12" is out with club edit of the original + hell and juan maclean remixes!

they were great at Daft Punk & the new single My People is a rockin' good time. not clever or original in any way but it pushes my buttons.

also i like the fact that one dude looks like marc almond in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ufW2INWmM

idleidle upthread is australian dance heavyweight and chart superstar muscl3s, fact fans

haha really. he was not great at daft punk.

this album is way better than the Cut Copy one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Together" sounds like Dead or Alive!!!

i was surprised to learn that presets are quite a bit more popular than CC here too.. keen to see if modular hit the debut-at-#1 trifecta with the van she album too (unlikely but anything's possible)

can't wait til this is up on emusic

no free t-shirt from emusic!

(unlikely but anything's possible)

lucky to debut at #68 morelike

rly? is not so good?

well, Cutters and Presets are bands that have played good slots on a dozen festivals across summer*, were the main supports on the Nevereverland tour**, are building on the success of well-received first albums and years of gigging, have had filmed shows repeatedly televised, have done lots of OS touring, and had huuge amounts of marketing spend... Van She, what, do a lot of support slots and free O Week shows? Their biggest hit is an uncredited remix of a Utah Saints song that doesn't even acknowledge the actual year they did it and hasn't cracked the Top 50? Nothing against them or anything, haven't heard the record -- but they're not even smelling the same league as the other two.

on the chart where Apocalypso debuts #1 - Presets sold out Enmore Theatre in two hours and added a second show that hasn't sold out. Pnau sold out Enmore in about two months, but much of the balcony held for comps - in the wake of that tour and a bonus-disc deluxe reissue of the album, they got up to #31 from #48 -- highest position to date on the fourth chart entry ever, for an album that came out five months ago. and Van She played first support on that show.

* Presets wrapped both Laneway and V - that's closing after both Smashing Pumpkins and Duran Duran at V
** yeah VS played this too, but at 3pm when the headline band isn't on until 10 - on a tour that happens to be put on by their label...

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i was surprised to learn that presets are quite a bit more popular than CC here too..

also Presets deal a lot in distorted treble wot the fluorolectro kiddies have been reared on, not deliberately '80s throwback lushness

Presets wrapped both Laneway and V - that's closing after both Smashing Pumpkins and Duran Duran at V

Well, that's not actually true. There were bands playing simultaneously on two other stages at Laneway and a DJ on another when The Presets were playing and all acts finished at the same time. Personally, Bridezilla wrapped my Laneway.

As for V, in Melbourne at least, The Smashing Pumpkins' set was from 8.15pm - 9.45pm on one of the main stages and The Presets from 8.45pm - 9.45pm in a shed. Sorry.

mentally append an "in Sydney" to my comments then!

(i didn't know there was a new cut/copy!)

anyway. what's with the Tony Hadley vocal impressions on this album?

early faves so far: my people, this boy's in love, talk like that.

the epic intro pipe organ intro to 'talk like that' sort of undercuts the rest of it tho. there's a lot of things like that on here - really good bits of overall ok track

"Ghosts" is amazing. I've only had time to listen to the album once, but it seems great.

didn't their last album's crossover nature happen due to Daniel Johns being involved / one of the Presets writing a big song for Silverchair and touring w/him, or something?

nah, 'apocalypso' was one of the biggest australian albums of recent years on its own terms, 'my people' was just the perfect abrasive anthem for that point in 2008 when the one love club and the melbourne DIY electrohouse cottage industry was at its peak commercially.

did johns end up being the singer of the chorus for 'this boy's in love'? he did cameo (and was credited) on earlier stuff.

might have to pick up the new one on thursday.

yeah Apocalypso blew up v organically on its own and devoid of Johns associations

(Johns played guitar on some of their first EP and both Presets were in the live band of The Dissociatives and Hamilton wrote Straight Lines, but that probably paid for part of his house more than it actually brought any crossover fans whatsoever. MMM's not putting them on the A playlist, you know?)

Yeah The Presets were basically inescapable on mainstream radio in 2008/2009.

and Hamilton wrote Straight Lines

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whilst this album has nothing at the "if i know you" level of amazingness it is probably their best record otherwise.

fave bits so far:

- the forward-reverse-forward-reverse-forward-reverse sequence of the chorus of 'promises'

- the fact that 'a.o.' paints sydney more accurately than anything else I've ever read or heard

- the whole sentiment of 'fall'

Seing them live tonight!

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i actually really like this lot.

the mix of hard beats with nitzer ebb styled with shouty vocals, and lush electronica pop hits a lot of my sweet spots.

t/s :- aus electro : midnight juggernauts vs cut copy vs van she vs the presets

i would guess a max of 3 votes should such a poll ever be put in place.

Cut Copy > The Presets > Midnight Juggernauts > Van She

Cut Copy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Midnight Juggernauts > The Presets >>>>>>>> Van She

haha.

expected such responses.

and i almost go with boxedjoys rundown but with less of the '>>' between cut copy and midnight juggernauts as i happen to think the first 2 MJ albums are perfect examples of how to update ELO with modern technology toys.

That new Nicky Van She thing is horrifying, a dead-eyed evocation to fun and release that just comes off as empty, desperate - a zombie chant of ill-convincing "life". ..."Liiiiiiife..."

I loved the first Midnight Juggernaut's album but I went to see them live soon after and it was very much Big Rock Music and it put me off them to the point where I only managed a cursory listen to the follow up and neglected the third. Their frontman released a good EP under the name Turkish Prison earlier this year though which I really liked.

not heard any of the solo projects as mentioned.

when a band starts to break into disparate solo projects then the end is well and truly nigh.

(the 2nd MJ album is full on ELO meets new toys .. never heard the 3rd ... )

KIM's solo career has always been a v functional side product to The Presets.

and Van She only ever had one good song and were tedious as heck live anyway, but Nick's Daft Punk cover, back when VS were a thing, was both excellent and a harbinger of nothing.

Van She put out a couple of decent enough pop singles 2 years ago. I haven't kept up with midnight juggernauts since, like, "road to recovery"

Still like most of the biggest Presets hits but find the dude's voice fairly grating. Cut Copy are one of my favourite local groups ever.

Also, lol at Muscles posting upthread! Whatever happened to that guy.

did not deal well with his elevation from message-board troll to pop star, melted down at his label, made up, faded away

blimey, seems to be a lot of detail that i am clearly not aware of this side of the planet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGmGWOOcTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZAtLJftQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6pJRBYxFI

absolute fucking bangers

these new ones are really brash and ugly and dumb, I love this

whoa, I like Downtown Shutdown better than anything they've done since Pretty Little Eyes

we'll be hearing it in shoe shops for decades to come

these new ones are really brash and ugly and dumb, I love this

― boxedjoy, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:06 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and the album's called hi-viz! it seems they're going hard at the mainstream, which is just fine if the rest of the album is anything like these