RÜFÜS DU SOL

Stripping down to a simple stage set up of percussion, synths, drum pads and keys Australian trio RÜFÜS continue to mesmerise audiences with their synth infused indie dance music. Forming in 2010, Jon George, Tyrone Lindqvist and James Hunt released their self-titled EP the following year. However it was the release of their debut full length album ‘Atlas’ in 2013 which catapulted them into mainstream, heading straight to number one in the Australian album charts and churned out 4 top ten singles. Despite having the minimalistic approach on stage, there is nothing small about RÜFÜS’s gargantuan sound which fills the room as the crowd sing along to ‘Tonight’, ‘Desert Night’ and ‘Take Me’. With an abundance of deep lighting to assist in creating that mysterious atmosphere through the vibrant intermittent red and blue lights gliding across the stage accompanied by billowing haze entices the audience to get lost in their catchy and dreamesque music. Lindqvist’s vocals are spine-chillingly enchanting and full of heart, wonderfully complimented by tinny drum beats. RÜFÜS have a great ability to turn the entire room into a massive dance floor as they guide the crowd through a wave of emotions accentuated by the euphoric and vibrant atmosphere that they so effortlessly create.

Maribou State are made for the pulsing club circuit, with upcoming shows with Fatboy Slim and The 2 Bears at Warehouse Project, at the Ministry of Sound and at the well-established Watergate superclub in Berlin. They’re the international discotheque trailblazers that will make everyone’s night from Brooklyn to Brighton to Ibiza to the glowstick parties of Croatia and Romania. Their shadowy, eclectic minimal-house sound resembles that of Pantha Du Prince, Modeselektor or Shackleton. They understand what it means to be laconic, using subtle shifts in tempo and gradually overlapping samples to create a kind of mutating ambience that’s deceptively complex.
Their debut EP blended sub-tropical percussion and symbols with intercut, soulful vocal tracks to create a perambulating, worldly sort of nu-jazz, with appearances from Saint Saviour on ‘Scarlet Groove’ and Pedestrian on ‘Rush Don’t Run’. Their subsequent Eps Native and Truths have a more haunting atmosphere about them. Their live tracks fuse all their widely-sourced jams together seamlessly. As a point of reference, check their Boiler Room set, which flails wildly between Afro-jazz, bossanova, minimal, coldwave and funk in the first half-hour.