We Love Sounds is electrified to announce that Autoerotique have now been added to the Dim Mak arena. Bold, brash, loud and proud, Dim Mak is a party brand of seriously epic, electro-charged proportions.
Autoerotique stores electro, techno, house, Dutch house, Dutch-colonial house, rave,rock, rave-rock, indie-rock and even ska on speed dial and calls them up frequently. Their effortlessly protean, shape-shifting sound can careen wildly from project to project, so it’s not unexpected to hear them transform from Dutch house to, say, Norwegian black metal on the same record – thus, earning them the lazily au courant nick name “Autobots” (currently TM’d by Hasbro so don’t pass it on!).
The ambiguously great duo’s Keith Robertson & David “Dave” Henderson were homegrown and shifted-into-shape within the multi-culti bustle of Toronto’s west end. Cutting their collective teeth as indie band producers they hop-scotched over to dance music after receiving a marijuana-lubricated epiphany to Groove Armanda’s first album at the tenderized age of 17—only to be swallowed whole by the city’s burgeoning dance scene.
After toiling as producers for EMI during 2008, these working class heroes took a much deserved personal break and like Martin & Lewis, Simon & Garfunkel, The Captain & Tannille etc. before them, steered their separate courses and architected their respective solo projects (Keith’s being a sorta electro-house-ish EP, & Dave’s an almost terrifyingly intense prog-opera set in rural Bosnia on the eve of WW1). It wasn’t until late 2008 when the group reunited putting all other projects conveniently aside.
Returning in early 2009 and signing with Dim Mak Records, the duo streaked like a tracer bullet through the strobe-lit sky of the T.O. dance community with their official first single Gladiator featuring remixes by Aoki/AM, Klever, Larry Tee/Alexander Technique, The Faint, AC Slater & Milano. Following the Gladiator EP, Autoerotique showed off the many colourful arrows in their musical quiver releasing remixes for Lykke Li, Shinichi Osawa, Chris Cornell & Timbaland, Diplo & Laidback luke, Larry Tee, B. Rich, Disco Bisquits, Fischerspooner and Weezer. Flash forward 6 months and the group is back in studio—following a non-stop liver-punishing tour—and excitedly working on their next single and first full length LP.
We Love Sounds returns to Adelaide on Monday 14th June (Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend) at the Adelaide Showground.
We Love Sounds is the largest winter music festival in Australia, with an established reputation for rocking the Queens Birthday long weekend year on year. In 2010 the festival will feature three massive arenas presented by electro labels Turbo Records and Dim Mak and the world’s biggest trance brand, God’s Kitchen.
We Love Sounds 2010 line up for Adelaide:
Underworld LIVE
Crookers
Laidback Luke
Steve Aoki
Markus Schulz
Tiga
Felix Da Housecat
The Proxy live
Zombie Nation live
Thomas Von Party
Felix Cartal
Sonic C
London Elektricity
Ajax
tyDi
Autoerotique
Event details:
Monday 14th June 2010 (Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend)
The Adelaide Showground, Adelaide
12:00pm – 10:00pm
Tickets on sale NOW for $95.00 +BF from:
www.moshtix.com.au www.ticketek.com.au www.inthemix.com.au
For updates please visit www.welovesounds.com.au
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