The Presets
The Presets are a pair of avant-garde Aussies who, while forging a musical path that wouldn't be unfamiliar to acts like Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, and the Faint, don't mind dragging disco along for the ride. Julian Hamilton (production, keyboards, vocals) and Kimberley Moyes (production, drums, programming) met in the early '90s as students at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music. Both were there to study classical music, but as they delved into the great composers, neither could forget an extracurricular love of '80s pop: the Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, Björk, New Order. So instead of abandoning their passion for music's lighter side, they bonded over it, composing music at school by day and dancing to acid house by night. Eventually, they joined the band Prop together, cranking out several albums of experimental instrumental music that won them critical plaudits across Australia. The Presets were born as an offshoot of Prop -- when Hamilton and Moyes wanted to remix a track with harder electronic edges, they did so under the Presets moniker.
In 2003, with a distinctively spiky disco-dipped sound and several years of collaboration boosting them, they released a demo; the influential Aussie label Modular wasted no time adding the Presets to its roster. A first EP, the relatively hard-driving Blowup, featuring guitar work from Silverchair's Daniel Johns, arrived the same year as the duo first hit the Australian stage circuit. In 2004, the mellower Girl and the Sea, whose title track was featured on the TV show The O.C., was released, and 2005's Down Down Down, the disc that established the Presets as a band worthy of Euro buzz, followed. With momentum on their side, the Presets also released Beams in Australia in 2005; in April of 2006, a month after it found favor with electro-freak-loving British fans, Beams lit a path into U.S. record stores. The pair returned in 2008 with a darker, more refined sound on its follow-up, Apocalypso, which would go on to become the first dance album to win the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Award for Album of the Year. Their third album, Pacifica, arrived in the summer of 2012, reaching number three on the Australian charts. It was followed by a major tour of Australia and a handful of U.S. festival dates in 2013. The bouncy single "No Fun" arrived a year later, alongside an EP's worth of remixes. The propulsive "Do What You Want" arrived in December 2017, followed two months later by "14U+14ME," both in advance of the Presets' forthcoming LP.
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Apocalypso (Deluxe Tour Album)
Dance - Released by Modular on 7 Apr 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Hi Viz
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Jun 2018
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Pacifica (Deluxe)
Electronic - Released by Modular on 7 Sep 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
World Collapsing
Electronic - Released by LG105 x Soothsayer on 30 Apr 2024
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beams (Deluxe)
Pop - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 20 May 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Paradise
Electronic - Released by EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd on 11 Oct 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Raka
Electronic - Released by EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd on 15 Nov 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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This Boy's In Love
Electronic - Released by Modular on 11 Apr 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Apocalypso (Deluxe)
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 7 Apr 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Re-Sets
Pop - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 17 Oct 2006
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14U +14ME (What So Not & SLUMBERJACK RESET)
The Presets, What So Not, Slumberjack
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 31 Aug 2019
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Apocalypso
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Jan 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
No Fun (Remixes)
Dance - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 7 Jul 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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You Belong
Dance - Released by Universal Music Australia (Distribution) on 1 Jan 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
No Viz
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 16 Aug 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Goodbye Future (Remixes)
Dance - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 29 Jan 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tools Down (Remixes)
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 24 May 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Downtown Shutdown (Single Edit)
Electronic - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 10 May 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo